Bent Stamnes has been a demoscener since 1989, mainly doing music and
graphics for countless productions for many different demoscene groups and
platforms. He has been the main organizer for several popular demoscene
events, and in 2004 he co-authored the book "Demoscene: The Art of
Real-Time".

He has served as senior editor for the digital magazine ZINE since 2007.
In October 2007, he traveled to San Francisco to host demoscene
outreach panels with NVIDIA, Pixar, Adobe and ILM. In August of 2008, he
took part in organizing the biggest demoscene event on US soil: NVScene,
hosted by NVIDIA.

Recently, he founded displayhack.org, a website and community dedicated to
showcasing (and competing in) short real-time VFX challenges.