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| Blip Festival | |
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 Dubmood blipfestival 2008 | |
| Genre | Chiptune |
| Location(s) | New York City, Aalborg, Tokyo, Melbourne |
| Years active | 2006 - 2012 |
| Website | www |
The Blip Festival was a festival that celebrated chiptune music with musical performances, workshops, and screenings of movies. It was held annually starting in 2006 in New York City. In recent years, there have been international versions of Blip Festival held in Europe, Asia, and Australia. The festival is curated and organized by 8bitpeoples, one of the foremost labels in the chiptune scene, as well as local arts organization The Tank. The New York festival (referred to simply as Blip Festival) has switched venues several times, beginning in 2006 at 15 Nassau Street in Manhattan, then moving to Eyebeam Art and Technology Center in 2007, and then being held in Brooklyn at The Bell House in 2008 and 2009. It went back to Eyebeam in 2011 and then the Gramercy Theatre in 2012.
The festival was the subject of a 2008 documentary film, Reformat the Planet, made by 2 Player Productions. The documentary was an official selection of the 2008 South by Southwest Film Festival, and was shown on Pitchfork.tv.[1]
After seven Years and 11 Festivals across four continents it was announced that the October 2012 Blip Festival in Tokyo would be the last installment.[2]
- ^ "Pitchfork.tv". 14 September 2008. Archived from the original on 14 September 2008. Retrieved 1 June 2023.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "8bitpeoples". 8bitpeoples.com. Retrieved 1 June 2023.