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What is Inércia?

Inércia is a non-profit organisation aimed to make the demoscene known in Portugal through preservation and outreach.

The demoscene is a worldwide non-commercial network of creative minds involved in the making of computer generated art, combining programming, graphics and music.

We are part of an international community of artists and organisers, dedicated to promote this type of digital art through events, conferences, etc.

Want to get involved? Join us as an associate.

inerciademoparty

Inércia Demoparty

momentum

Momentum

art of coding

The Art of Coding

scene.pt

ScenePT

News

2023.09.21

We hereby invite all members to a meeting of the General Assembly on September 29th, 20:30 (GMT), at https://meet.ji.si/inercia. The agenda will be:
- Informations
- Approval of Internal Regulations
- Approval of Activiy and Accounts Report 2022
- Approval of the Budget for 2023
- Further matters
You can review the proposals by clicking the above links. Due to the fact that we have members from other countries, if they attend the meeting, it will be conducted in English. Please confirm your attendance by replying to the email you received.

2023.09.16

Inércia Association took part in Festa do Software Livre 2023 in Aveiro. We organized workshops focused on open source software related to the Demoscene.

2022.11.11

Inércia Demoparty 2022 is over! Thanks to everyone who attended, you didn't forget to come! :)

2022.06.14

InérciaDemoparty2022 will happen this year in November, 4th till 6th. Book your tickets and prepare your demos in advance! And don't forget to come.

2022.03.13

Inércia will host a Satellite Party for the famous Revision Demoparty. If you want to join, come talk to us on Discord.

2021.11.07

InérciaDemoparty2021 is over. Thanks to everyone who attended. You can check the releases on Demozoo and the recordings on Youtube.

About Us

Inércia is a non-profit organisation aimed to make the Demoscene known in Portugal through preservation and outreach. Simultaneously, we organise events such as Inércia Demoparty and work towards getting the Demoscene as part of the list UNESCO intangible world cultural heritage.

Originally created in 2002, Inércia was refounded in 2022 by demosceners and enthousiasts with over 20 years of experience in organising so-called "demo parties", the more common demoscene events. While addressing some of the more common problems like funding and logistic support for those events, another goal of this non-profit is to outreach and enlarge the demoscene community, thriving to get more people engaged and creatively involved with Inércia, either by being part of our association or by participating in our events with their art pieces.

If you share our goals, consider becoming a member of our non-profit association by filling the enrolling form. You can also donate to our association, please contact us if you wish to do so, which would help us to persue our objectives.

associacao inercia

These are the founding members of Inércia and their roles in the organisation.

Direction
Filipe "ps" Cruz	President
Jorge "jeenio" Silva	Treasurer
Hugo "alien" Lino	Secretary

General Assembly
Jaerder "jae686" Sousa	President
João "anticore" Faria	Secretary
Rui Orey	Secretary

Fiscal Council
Nelson "EviL" Tavares	President
Luís "zeroshift" Loureiro	Secretary
Pedro "garfield" Cardoso	Secretary

Demoscene - The Art of Coding

Initiative to enlist the Demoscene as UNESCO intangible world heritage

What is the broader context of the mission?

“The Demoscene, which is born at the heart of the home computer revolution, shows how skills and creativity can be stimulated and implemented in a dynamic cultural practice adopted to digital contexts. Many of its techniques and mindsets became core techniques and influences of the digital change and are still vibrant today. Seven decades after the invention of computers, we think it’s time to push for the next step to take born-digital culture seriously as part of our cultural heritage, starting an initiative to bring the demoscene onto the list UNESCO intangible world cultural heritage. So we invite all sceners and non-sceners to join us and support the initiative in the upcoming years.”

Andreas Lange & Tobias Kopka, Initiators of the campaign “Art of Coding”, April 2019
http://demoscene-the-art-of-coding.net/

What is the role of Inércia in this initiative?

After the successful breakthrough in Finland, Germany, Poland and The Netherlands, where the Demoscene was accepted in their national UNESCO cultural heritage lists, more countries are needed in order to push its status into the intangible world cultural heritage. In Portugal, there is a long list of traditional arts and crafts that compete with each other to be accepted in the national cultural heritage list. Our goal is to compile and submit an application to the portuguese UNESCO office so that we can work with our affiliates around the world and bring the Demoscene to a global cultural heritage status.