The Blip Festival is a four-day international cultural event taking place in New York City this December, focusing on the 8-bit scene — musicians and artists who use low-bit videogame and computer hardware as their creative tools.

The festival is the widest-reaching event in the history of the form, boasting a roster of over 30 international artists performing and exhibiting from places as diverse as Austria, Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and across the United States. The Blip Festival is a four-day international cultural event taking place in New York City this December, focusing on the 8-bit scene — musicians and artists who use low-bit videogame and computer hardware as their creative tools.

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Press release

For more information, download the Blip Festival 2006 press release.



Logos for print and web

Blip Festival 2006:
• vector .eps
• bitmapped .psd (Adobe Photoshop v7, 600 dpi)
• bitmapped .png (600 dpi, with transparency)

The Tank:
• vector .eps
• bitmapped .jpg (300 dpi, black on white)

8bitpeoples:
• vector .eps
• bitmapped .psd (Adobe Photoshop v7, 600 dpi)
• bitmapped .png (600 dpi, with transparency)



High-resolution photographs

Click thumbnail for hi-res photo

Video segments for context

For some brief video segments for background and context, episodes of Cool Hunting's 8-Bit series are concise and helpful references, featuring several artists performing at the Blip Festival.
• 8-Bit v1: Nullsleep
• 8-Bit v2: noteNdo
• 8-Bit v3: Bit Shifter
• 8-Bit v4: Mark DeNardo
• 8-Bit v5: overview



Contact

Mike Rosenthal
Artistic Director
The Tank
mike@thetanknyc.org
1 212 563 6269