ZX Spectrum Demoscene

By:   Piotr Marecki, Yerzmyey, Robert Straka
Imprint:   Uniwersytet Jagiellonski, Wydawnictwo
Dimensions:   Height: 239mm,  Width: 159mm,  Spine: 16mm
Weight:   300g
ISBN:   9788323348627
ISBN 10:   8323348626
Pages:   152
Publication Date:   02 August 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

"Piotr Marecki, PhD, editor, publisher, translator of experimental literature (with Aleksandra Małecka), cultural studies and digital culture scholar. President of Korporacja Ha!art Foundation, supporting contemporary, innovative, experimental art and culture. Since 1999 editor-in- chief of postdisciplinary journal of art and culture Ha!art. Assistant professor in the Institute of Culture at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and lecturer at the Film School in Łódź. He is also the head of creative computing lab at the Jagiellonian University. In 2013-14 he did a postdoc at Massachussets Institute of Technology at the Trope Tank lab. Yerzmyey - demoscener, musician, graphic artist, photographer, writer. Author and co-author of numerous demos, intros, graphics, chiptune songs, interactive fiction, games, collection of photos. Those works have been presented around the world (Europe, Russia, USA, Asia). He is mostly a ZX Spectrum artist, but also works with Atari and Amiga computers, Commodore 264 series, the Raspberry Pi and many others. He is the co-author of a creative computing lab at the Jagiellonian University. Robert ""Hellboj"" Straka, PhD, z80 & x86 programmer, mathematician and AGH University of Science and Technology (Kraków, Poland) lecturer. In the current project he is responsible for ZX Spectrum code desing and implementations. Author & coauthor of several demos, intros and games on the ZX Spectrum. His academic career is linked to advanced numerical methods in science and engineering with emphasis on GPU computations and Lattice Boltzmann Method."