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contributing artists
Abstrakt took a good decade and a half off for good behavior, but it seems
that underground ASCII art may be just like riding a bicycle in at least one
regard. He appears in this collection courtesy of Fire.
Adel Faure learned in the pandemic summer of 2021 that they were not creating
text art in a vacuum, as they had thought, but that there was a community of
colleagues to work with and learn from. Everything since then has been a
feverish frenzy of creation and getting up to speed.
adelfaure.net / adelfaure.itch.io / twitter.com/adelfaure /
mastodon.art/@adelfaure
Atonalospreys credentials and qualifications for participating in an
undertaking such as the commission of a computer artpack are so increasingly
abundant -- now moreso than ever! -- that it would be pointless to elaborate
upon at any further length.
youtube.com/user/antonvanoosbree / instagram.com/atonalosprey /
oldbytes.space/@atonalosprey
AXB threw down newschool ASCII art with the best -- Remorse, ACiD and Unit --
during the underground computer artscenes silver age, starting in 1996... but
since none of them are around anymore, hes been reduced to slumming with us.
iaxb.com/ascii.htm / universeodon.com/@axb
Mike Blippypixel Rose is a digital artist whose tastes veer toward the
vintage in electronic music and visuals, dabbling in low-poly 3D modeling, LED
pixelart, and teletext as well as work in the distinctive palette of the BBC
Micro.
instagram.com/blippypixel
Periodically we encounter someone who is not only a specialist in a given
medium, but who also focuses on a specific theme to the exclusion of all
others. Chuppixel is the worlds preeminent Tiny Towers-style pixelart movie
cast group shot specialist.
instagram.com/chuppixel / chuppixel.tumblr.com
Codefenix is a retrogaming and retrocomputing enthusiast, to the extent of
being SysOp of ConstructiveChaos BBS and dressing it appropriately in ANSI
art.
conchaos.synchro.net
discGator is holding down the text art beat in some rarefied niches of
cyberspace, now including ASCII illustrations in our own artpack collections.
discgator.flounder.online / twitter.com/disc6ator
Grymmjack celebrated us in the 20th century and was baffled on the occasion
of our revival, but in the fullness of time he has come back around to his
initial response, jumping with both feet into manifesting our intention as a
crossroad for computer creativity.
twitter.com/grymmjack
Illarterate is a multimedia artist from Wigan, UK. Despite attempts to modernise, he will forever be known as That Guy That Does Teletext Art. But whoever said thats a bad thing?
twitter.com/illarterate / teletextart.tumblr.com
danfarrimond.co.uk / portfolio.illarterate.co.uk
Taking inspiration from the basic medium of ASCII art, Joni nscii Caparas
treats the characters as design elements on a black canvas, in a fashion
similar to, but fundamentally different from, artscene ASCII practice.
Basically, from their base in Berlin theyve reinvented the artform from
first principles.
instagram.com/joninscii / jonicaparas.com
Part of a feral tribe of uncontacted textmode artists at the 8bitMUSH at
ANSIART.COM, LDA emerges from a family textmode art concern to grace us with
the imagery of his people.
littlebitspace experiments with the expressive capacity of ASCII art and
PETSCII.
littlebitspace.com / mas.to/@littlebitspace
Mavenmob is an interesting case, informed by equal parts of the philosophy of
J. Krishnamurti and his artscene youth in Blade and Echo. One of his recent
undertakings is a game called The Word Is Not The Thing about which our lit
division may beg to differ, and work continues on its follow-up, titled The
Creation of the Self.
mavenmob.com / instagram.com/mavenmob / oldbytes.space/@mavenmob
You wont see any of Mavriks creative work in our recent archives, but
theres a very good chance that the collection will have passed through his
graciously-offered web hosting at mistigris.org en route to you, picking up
from his historical facilitator role greasing the gears of Mists KiTSCHNet
echomail network from its home at Daemons Gate BBS.
daemonsgate.com
An old dog doing new tricks, MeaTLoTioN has made a return to the BBS scene
after many years away, and this time is trying his hand at some textmode art,
contributing to the UK scene with some attempts at being creative. On a
normal day he enjoys red meat, vegetables, plenty of greens and a shipping ton
of gravy.
meatlotion.com
Melodia doesnt need an artgroup, she is an artgroup. One more case of the
parade continuing after the band stopped playing, courtesy of the bottomless
music in her head she kept on keeping on -- and indeed, has never stopped. We
are humbled by her continuing association with us, as to her, all we have to
offer is drag factor!
soundcloud.com/xennial
Mr. Polyducks, Esquire, is an artist and web game programmer living in
greater Manchester, UK. His interests are in tile-based, PETSCII and pixel
artwork using limited palettes. Often presents his bio in the third person.
pixeljoint.com/p/125346.htm / polyducks.co.uk / twitter.com/polyducks
Shi-akuma is a mystery wrapped in a riddle stuffed in a gyoza wrapper.
In February of 1995, Spawn drew an ASCII art logo celebrating us. It took us
over a quarter of a century to discover it and put it to use, but to all
things there is a time.
A 16-bit guy in a 64-bit world, VileR grew up when baud rates were lower and
signal/noise ratios higher. A bizarre pixelling accident in the mid-90s left
him trapped in an artistic timewarp bubble somewhere on the inert fringes of
the demo-/artscene. However, he was recently seen crawling out of the woodwork
and into projects such as the 8088 MPH demo, and may occasionally be observed
busying himself with nameless and unspeakable oldskool-related machinations.
8088mph.blogspot.com
From Twilight, the Legion, Avenge, Fire, Fuel and through to Blocktronics, the
Swede known as Zeus II is a one-man ANSI art industry. Also, a hell of a cook!
twitter.com/ZeusII
Last seen releasing ASCII art in Alphaforce Arc from 1998-1999, Zylone,
Sysop of Planet Caravan, has recently dropped back into ANSI art practice as
though through a wormhole in the space-time continuum.
bbs.planetcaravan.org
MISTIGRIS DISTRIBUTION SITES
mistigris.org
conchaos.synchro.net
bbs.inktwo.com:23
bbs.planetcaravan.org
erb.pw/the-bbs
bbs.stormbbs.com
excelsiorbbs.ddn.net:2000
artpacks.org
demozoo.org/groups/22737
16colo.rs/group/mistigris
instagram.com/mistfunk
discord.gg/9R84QUN
oldbytes.space/@mistfunk
cohost.org/mistfunk
tumblr.com/mistfunk
tiktok.com/@mistfunk
twitter.com/mistfunk
and our usual round of greetz to our colleagues at: blocktronics.org, Lazarus,
Fire, Legacy, impure.nl, hermanas del perro magnetico, galza.org,
@hirmuofficial, paleotronic.com, soundcloud.com/bitcouver, vanchipmusic.ca,
ArakNet and TABNet!