[In the latest of an occasional series of demoscene-related posts on GameSetWatch, AteBit's Paul 'EvilPaul' Grenfell points out a noted digital art blog focusing its attentions on the demoscene over the past few days.]

Rhizome, the New Museum, New York affiliated art blog, dedicated last week as demoscene week and have been posting an article a day on the subject - a nice chance to see demos recognized alongside other more avant-garde examples of digital art.

Interestingly, they are not attempting to cover the whole of the scene. Rather, they are concentrating on a few of the less well known areas such as demoscene music and the MSX demoscene.

The articles are not only a nice introduction to the demoscene and its peculiar ways, but they also include the odd gem for old hands like me. I'm glad to say that I've now discovered the particularly bonkers art of "tracker animation", where musicians embed special commands into their tracked music files to produce ascii animations while the songs play.

An example of this completely pointless but ever-so-geek-cool music can be heard (and seen) in the YouTube clip below:

You can check out all of the demoscene tagged articles over at Rhizome right now.