Blip Festival Heats Up Old Ataris, Commodore 64s and GameBoys

 This is a writeup from Rhizome's net art news announcing the upcoming Blip Festival in New York. I always think of that prehistoric dinosaur game we used to run off a Commodore 64 onto a 10 foot deep wooden television. You'd be busy trying to move the dinosaurs with huge joysticks and they would just stand there and roar loudly.
 "Blip Goes the Festival Next week nearly
forty international artists and musicians will visit New York, many for
the first time, to revive a defunct downtown bank with a treasure trove
of 8-bit wonders. The Blip Festival is the world's largest-ever
chiptune event, and will feature most of the field's major players,
including Crazy Q (Stockholm), Nullsleep (NYC), YMCK (Tokyo), and
others, each performing live music and visual on old Ataris, Commodore
64s, Game Boys, and other old school machinery. Nightly live concerts
will be balanced by screenings and workshops, during the day, from
November 30-December 3. The festival is co-organized by The Tank, a
nonprofit whose Bent Festival of circuit-bending arts was a precursor
to Blip, and 8-Bit Peoples, a New York-based collective of 'musicians
and artists dedicated to exploring the audiovisual style of low-bit
video games and home computers,' including some of the most active
practitioners within this genre. The Blip Festival is a partner event
in Rhizome's Tenth Anniversary Festival of Art and Technology. We
recommend reserving your tickets today. - Rhizome.org"

http://www.blipfestival.org