> No mention of demoscene on the entire site,

Hey, the demo scene existed way before "making art with code" became an expression owned by the young hipsters who think they invented everything, so no wonder they don't even consider it exists.

My initial reaction was similar. There are some fine pieces on the website; but then why the fuck is raspberry pi listed as a platform, along with iOS, Linux and Windows? Why is Arduino there? If someone decides to do something on a MegaAVR, is that going to get there in addition to Arduino?

I honestly appreciate the initiative, but I find the presentation to be very disrespectful about the code part of it.

Hehe, they indeed seem to dissociate Hardware/OS based on irrelevant criteria.

Here's some computer generated art from the 50s:

http://translab.burundi.sk/code/vzx/index.htm

Looked that up and came across:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Assembly2004-areena01.jpg

What a difference 10 years makes.

For context, here's a photo from last year's Assembly: http://assembly.galleria.fi/kuvat/Assembly+Summer+2013/Aleks...

also make sure to play kkrieger from http://www.theproduct.de/

d/l: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=12036

also check out ryg's blog: http://fgiesen.wordpress.com/category/demoscene/

Yeah it's unfortunate they didn't mention the demoscene but if we're talking "OG", there's a history of media artists creating "dev art" that goes back to the same time if not further.

E.g. Videoplace (~early 1970s): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmmxVA5xhuo

also:

http://scene.org/

http://www.bitfellas.org/outreach.php

http://www.capped.tv/

http://www.demoscene.tv/