The Scroll Art Museum - News

Site Relaunch 2026

Al Sweigart — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0400

The Scroll Art Museum website is relaunching with a new design, with new artwork and features planned.

From the curator:

I'm very pleased with the new design. The site now offers a full screen experience and an automated tour, making it well suited for screensaver displays. Its customization options allow …

PyBay 2024 - Scrolling Animated ASCII Art in Python

Al Sweigart — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Al Sweigart discusses scroll art at the PyBay 2024 conference in San Francisco on September 21, 2024. This is similar to the PyTexas 2024 talk. The talk was recorded and is available on pyvideo.org.

Here is an imperfect, machine-generated transcript:

Okay, so I'm going to give a talk on …

PyTexas 2024 - 20 GOTO 10: How to Make Scrolling ASCII Art

Al Sweigart — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:00:00 -0400

Al Sweigart discusses scroll art at the PyTexas 2024 conference in Austin on April 20, 2024. The talk was recorded and is available on pyvideo.org. The slides are available.

Here is an imperfect, machine-generated transcript:

Hello. OK, thank you for having me here. And thank you to all the …

Forbidden Zone

Al Sweigart — Wed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 -0400

In May 2024, Al Sweigart created a music video performance of Danny Elfman's theme for the 1980 movie Forbidden Zone made from several scroll art pieces. A video recording is posted on YouTube.

Over two dozen different scroll art programs, controlled by a DJ, played in sync with "The …

Starfield on the Apple IIe

Al Sweigart — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 00:00:00 -0400

The term "scroll art" is new but these text-based programs don't require modern computers. Al Sweigart has ported Starfield to BASIC running on an Apple IIe personal computer. A video recording is on YouTube shorts.

The benefit of scroll art for learning to code is that the concepts are simple …