About

Impulse is organized by Associação Inércia, a non profit organization dedicated to promoting the demoscene.

Impulse 2026 will be a single day event, taking place on the 11th of July 2026 at A Benificiência Familiar in the center of the city of Porto.

Demoscene

The Demoscene is an international computer art subculture focused on producing so-called demos: self-contained, sometimes extremely small, computer programs that display audiovisual content. The purpose of a demo is to show off programming, visual art, and musical skills.

Demoscene community organizes regular events to compete and socialize called demoparties: physical social events, usually over a weekend, focused on presenting new demoscene content. They typically feature competitions of several categories, seminars about relevant demoscene topics and live performances of music and visuals.

Impulse is a demoparty, but also embraces other digital art cultures, hence being defined as a digital arts and music festival.

Ticket Options

Free entrance.

Rules of Conduct

The organization reserves the right to exclude anyone from attending the event that might be causing a disturbance, we do so under the private event house rules law. We will enforce this only when dealing with complaints of discrimination or unwanted indoctrination / rhetoric speech regarding any discriminatory subjects (racism, bygotry, mysogny, religious or political hate speech, conspiracy theories, etc). Any physical or verbal threat / harrassment of our volunteer organizing staff or visitors will not be tolerated. Anyone found breaking Portuguese law will be turned over to local authorities.

General contact

For any questions and enquiries regarding the festival you can reach us through email.

We are also active on the portuguese scene discord.