Blip Festival In NYC - 8 Bit Art, Music, People

If you saw or wanted to see the awesome documentary 8 Bit, then NYC's upcoming Blip Festival 2007 might be right up your day-glo alley. Held from Nov 29 - Dec 2 at Manhattan's The Tank and operated by artist collective 8bitpeoples, the Blip Festival includes some of the same wacky chiptunes artists that appeared in the film, including Glomag, Bubblyfish,Tree Wave, and Bit Shifter.

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.

It should be quite the scene, whether you're into it or not - look forward to a "fascinating cross-section of the chiptune musical aesthetic and related low-bit visual art." Look for me!

[Thanks, Marco!]