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contributing artists
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
Alterra has been making ASCII on the PC since 2022, and calls BBSes on an old
e-reader. You can contact him at: aperturesciencelaboritories@protonmail.com
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
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
Darkman Almighty administers the USS Excelsior BBS, and picked up a little
ANSI art along the way so as to better skin his Starbase in cyberspace most
appropriately.
excelsiorbbs.ddns.net:2000
Notes from Underground: DosDoc makes infofile art for the Western literary
canon and posts it up in public spaces to impress elites and baffle illiterate
lamers.
instagram.com/dosdocone
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
A genuine professional teletext illustrator two decades hence, Steve
Horsenburger Horsley has recently returned to the game for love of the art:
Its kind of frustrating to discover you are good at something only to
realise its pointless in todays world, but I just really like doing it so I
am going to carry on. We feel your pain, Steve! At his website you can
commission original teletext creations from him, so dont delay to get your
own piece of textmode art history!
horsenburger.com
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.
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
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
Nick Lakowski is a Vancouver-based artist. He holds a BFA in studio art from
Emily Carr University 2004 and an MFA in studio art from the University of
British Columbia 2012. His work is grounded in a commitment to grassroots
community projects, including experience as a teacher, muralist, volunteer,
board member, curator, and events facilitator for a variety of local schools,
businesses, festivals, DIY art spaces, and artist-run galleries. His current
work with acrylics draws anxiously and humorously from the overly
deterministic discipline of neurobiology, the world of commercial painting and
paint manufacturing, various indexes and orders of colour, the redactive
procedure of painting itself, and a mystical hysteria towards resuscitation
and intensive care medicine.
nlakowski.tumblr.com / iheartlocalart.ca/artists-2/nick-lakowski
instagram.com/niklkovfska
A 90s ANSI art acolyte recently finding his way back to the fold, Nitron
has made up for lost time releasing solo artpacks and making guest
appearances, putting up Hold Fast BBS, and is currently minting screens for
BBS door games like its going out of fashion -- 25 years too late!
instagram.com/n1tr0n
santagoy is a text art newbie, as green as they come. If this blurb sticks,
that will make them evergreen.
@santagoy / cohost.org/san-tagoy
Carl TeletextR Attrill, host of the Byte High No Limit podcast, represents
Mistigris continuing wave of introducing the great public textmode art
tradition -- teletext -- to the underground computer artscene.
teletextr.blogspot.com / @carlosteletextr / oldbytes.space/@teletextr
The Green Herring is a special guest whose two speculative fiction pieces on
a certain tech trend were deemed worthy of inclusion in this pack. Their story
began in the world of ZZT, where their game Cyber Purge became known as a
classic within months after its release. They then found Moebius and gradually
crossed over into the wider realm of ANSI art. Since then, theyve drawn a
number of ANSI art pieces, mostly in the underserved realm of furry art, and
contributed a colorful roster of avatars to the ANSI art of the indie
deckbuilder ZOZ. They hope you enjoy their pictures and look forward to
delivering their first proper artpack to the world sometime in the future!
thegreenherring.neocities.org
chitter.xyz/@TheGreenHerring / cohost.org/TheGreenHerring
thegreenherring.tumblr.com / thegreenherring.itch.io
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, lazarusblocks.com, fireweb.org, the Legacy Crew, impure.nl,
las hermanas del perro magnetico, galza.org, @hirmuofficial, paleotronic.com,
soundcloud.com/bitcouver, vanchipmusic.ca, sito.org, ArakNet and TABNet!