Pilgrimage was a
demoparty
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which took place annually in
Salt Lake City, Utah each summer between 2003 and 2006. The event was founded by Rich "Legalize" Thompson of the demoscene group Polygony.
Pilgrimage was, at the time, the only active demoscene event of its kind in all of
North America
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(succeeding events such as NAID), while many demoparties take place annually throughout
Europe.
Party features
Competitions
Pilgrimage hosted a variety of different
compos, most of which require a skill in electronic art and/or computer programming, such as:
*
Demo
* Combined Music (
MP3 and tracked music)
*
Pixel Graphics
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*
Text Mode Graphics
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* "Blender" competition (equivalent to fast-compos at European demoparties)
* "Wildcard" (equivalent to wild-compos at European demoparties)
In 2004, Pilgrimage managed to raise over
US $14,000 in
cash and
prizes to award winners of each of the various competitions, double that of the previous year. Major sponsors that year included Utah's largest independent ISP XMission,
ACiD
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,
ATI Technologies,
Bawls
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,
Microsoft, and
DeviantArt.
Seminars
In addition to competitions, which are the main focal point of any demo party, Pilgrimage also hosted seminars on art and technology-related subjects such as 3D programming and design, the history of art in computing, and game design.
Activities
Pilgrimage 2004 included the following activities:
* A
Dance Dance Revolution tourney, including several "old school/new school" matchups.
* A city-spanning
scavenger hunt organized by members the local
2600 meeting.
* A demoscene trivia quiz show hosted by
Jason Scott and Severina
* A demonstration of how the popular Finnish cocktail
Salmiakki Koskenkorva can be made, including a beverage tasting
In 2004, main organizer Legalize stirred up quite a few attenders during his opening speech of the party, where he (in response to European critics of the party) verbally offended the complete European demoscene, labelling them "
Eurotrash". He also delivered a side-jab to attenders from
Canada stating that they are "wussies", as they don't have an active demoparty anymore - to which the members of demogroup Northern Dragons responded that the actual party invitation demo was "written by Canadians".
Scene Zine Issue #16 - Party Report: Pilgrimage 2K4
/ref> The Northern Dragons gave another tongue-in-cheek response to the controversy in 2005 by naming their winning demo entry "Eurotrash".
References
{{reflist
— The relationship between Utah and Computer Graphics.
North American Demo Parties
— A list of all North American demo parties.
External links
Pilgrimage official website
Pilgrimage demoparty releases
indexed at Pouet
The demoscene is an international computer art subculture focused on producing demos: self-contained, sometimes extremely small, computer programs that produce audiovisual presentations. The purpose of a demo is to show off programming, visual ...
.
Pilgrimage 2004 photographs
hosted on Slengpung.
Demo parties
Festivals in Utah