[photo via blipfest]

8-bitlovers unite! This years Blipfest is action packed. “Trash-bin symphonies and ray-chasing pixel pushers herald the explosive return of Blip Festival New York City, 2009. The three-day music and arts festival returns to Brooklyn’s Bell House December 17th, 18th, and 19th and is presented by Manhattan arts organization The Tank, in partnership with NYC artist collective 8bitpeoples.

Entering its fourth year of celebrating the best and brightest from the realm of chipmusic and its related disciplines, the festival showcases the use of the former heavyweights of computing such as the Commodore 64 and Amiga, the Atari ST and 2600, and the Nintendo Entertainment System and Game Boy to create arresting music and visual art.”

Create Digital Media’s doing a special Handmade Music TONIGHT (Wednesday) in honor of 8 bit festivities.

Plateaux Festival, Torun – Bydgoszcz
19th-22nd of November 2009, Poland

4-day festival, 19.-22.11.2009 – presenting the newest and most interesting multimedia artists, praised and prize-winning audiovisual art, experimental films, electronic and electro acoustic music and vj-art

Leading audiovisual artists for the first time in Poland:
deaf center [NO] + claudio sinatti [IT], glitterbug [IL/DE] + ronni shendar [IL], tilman ehrhorn [DE], byetone [DE], lusine [US], ezekiel honig [US], morgan packard [US], joshue ott [US], simon scott [UK], svarte greiner [NO], chris herbert [UK]

Projects and installations prepared specially for the event or shown uniquely:
akufen [CA], fennesz [AT] + lillevan [DE], deaf center [NO] + claudio sinatti [IT], bodycode [US], sutekh [US], snd [UK], the sight below [US] + simon scott [UK], tilman ehrhorn [DE] + geometria [PL], lawrence english [AU] + makino takashi [JP], kirk [PL] + jeffers egan [US]

Experimental cinema screenings – utp_ [DE], RÜTS [BE], Vidos [DE], Audio.Visual [DE], Attack on Silence [UK], Visual Music [IT], When The Eye Flickers [IT]