Goto80
Goto80 is a Swedish old media artist and researcher who works with music, art, and text. His live shows are usually an explosion of genres, seamlessly mixing pop, acid, electro and punk in his particular 8-bit style.
After his 1990's schooling in the demoscene hacker culture, he was one of the first ones to bring chip music to the stage around 2000. He has performed around the world and released thousands of songs for free download, on C64-cartridge, in cheeseburgers, and even in the wall of the Museum of the Moving Image in New York.
As an artist, he usually takes a critical look at human-computer relationships and has shown works at festivals like Transmediale and Ars Electronica. As a researcher, he has published texts about chip music and the demoscene at Ashgate and Rhizome. Currently, he is exploring collective retro archiving and writes books and papers about text graphics.
Goto80 runs the art blog TEXT-MODE and the research blog Chipflip. (2019)
- Links
- Website
- text-mode.org, a collection of text graphics like ASCII and PETSCII and its distant relatives
- Chipflip, chipmusic research blog
- Mastodon: https://post.lurk.org/@goto80
- Bandcamp
- "A Micro History of Demoscene Music", Rhizome, 2010
- Wikipedia
