GOTO80 & RAQUEL MEYERS make music/video and art/games with lo-fi tools. Collaborated since 2004.
At the moment they are experimenting with text-based live improvisation using Ascii, Ansi, Petscii and Teletext.

PARTY PANIC AV set
audiovisual mega party

Party Panic – an energetic attack on body and soul, built around aggressive acid pop. It's a grenade of genres exploding in low-res sounds and images. Oldschool rave and growling data metal and surf-pop and so on. While very dancefloor friendly, it infects your brain with wet dreams of schlager-flamenco. Duration: 30-60 minutes.
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WORKSHOP 8-BIT LIVE PERFORMANCE
music and visuals focus on 8 bit aesthetics

This workshop teaches you how to perform live music and visuals with 8-bit technologies. The purpose of the workshop is to find new ways of expression in these unique tools that are often misunderstood as limiting and difficult. New ideas don’t require new technologies. In fact, old technologies often spawn new procedures, ideas, styles and goals.
Duration: 18 hours (six hours a day for three days)
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'POLYBIUS 2.0' Live Cinema
live cinema based on modern myth

The purpose of Polybius is to explode the links between fiction and reality by encouraging a loss of senses. It builds on the urban myth about an arcade game from the 1980s (Polybius) that created a sensory and cognitive deprivation in its users. By combining line vector aesthetics with video manipulation and 8-bit technology we want to induce feelings of apophenia, amnesia and panic. The Polybius experience – Sinneslöschen (German for “sense deleting”).
Duration: 30 minutes.
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'?? ???'
cinematic text mode

‘?? ???’ is an audiovisual performance in the vein of cinematic new age terror. It operates in text mode, only using characters of the Commodore 64 and Amiga. This applies both to the graphics and the music. As the title indicates, some of these characters are not available in modern systems.
Duration: 30 minutes.
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ACID BURGER
an eatable project

Menu 1 was launched at Tokyo Blip Festival.
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CONTACT / BIO

info [at] goto80.com
info [at] raquelmeyers.com

BIO raquel meyers [download PDF]
BIO goto80 [download PDF]