BLIP FESTIVAL 2007 IS NOW OVER - A HUGE THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO SHOWED UP AND TOOK PART!
Stay tuned for '08-news on this site
- and in the meantime, check out the vast amount of pictures from the festival on Flickr
Manhattan art space The Tank
and New York artist collective 8bitpeoples announce the Blip
Festival 2007, a four-day music and multimedia event taking place in New York City November 29 - December 2, 2007. Focusing
on the modern artistic exploration of primitive video game and
home computer technology and featuring 40 musicians and visualists from around the world, the Blip Festival showcases artists
adopting and repurposing familiar but forgotten hardware - such as the Commodore 64, the Nintendo Entertainment
System, the Atari game console and home computer line, and
the Nintendo Game Boy - exploring their untapped potential
and unique aesthetic character. The festival's nightly concerts and daytime screenings, workshops,
and presentations are supplemented by B I T M A P : as good as new, an adjunct visual art exhibition, held at acclaimed Brooklyn gallery vertexList. The Blip Festival 2007 offers a fascinating
cross-section of the chiptune musical aesthetic and related low-bit visual art, in an explosive event
taking place at the epicenter of the creative world.
The festival will host evening concerts on all 4 nights. Each night's concert will cost $10 and include 8 musical acts and a variety of live visualists. Tickets will be available online starting in early November and will also be available at the door. Festival passes will also be available for sale in early November.
In addition to concerts there will also be daytime workshops and screenings on Saturday and Sunday. A complete schedule of those events is forthcoming.
Please get excited now.
