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MIST0620
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A Flamingo Cups work isnt a style, but a mood.
instagram.com/aflamingocup
For the past three years, Alpha King has been living up to his nickname and
ripping it up in Blocktronics, lending his textmode art talents hither and yon
on occasion where they are best suited.
With a name like Arlequin, its a mystery why our paths havent crossed more
frequently! Most often seen in the vicinity of Impure and PVM these days,
this month this artist demonstrates VJ glitch acumen in the service of the
newly socially-distanced Flashparty demoparty!
Axl is a Parisian artist who works in many styles but who has recently
stumbled upon the Commodore 64s PETSCII aesthetic and is currently feverishly
working every angle of it, machine-generated and bespoke, minting a small army
of hunky action figures.
instagram.com/axltm
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
Bliss is another of our rotating cast of seasoned textmode artist guest-stars
visiting from the alt-ANSI utopia of the 8bitMUSH at ansiart.com, handy with
their screen-condensed, palette-extended variant, described as FANSI. She
often is concerned with video game subjects, but her interest in fixed-width
pixelart also extends into the textile realm.
instagram.com/hollydollydinkleberry
A more focused student of the Commodore 64 aesthetic you will not find.
buzzclik made a splash invading Twitter with @PETSCIIbots, but that is only
the first stage of his nefarious scheme for world domination.
twitter.com/buzzclik / petscii.tumblr.com
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
CoaXCable of CoolPHat is getting a little more comfortable with lending us
guest appearances, letting his festive freak flag fly.
A few years following the release of the final Mist Classic artpack collection,
c00k13m0n5t3r was born. The generational gap might well be nigh
insurmountable, had we not the mutual love of quality pixelart. Its timeless!
instagram.com/c00k13m0n5t3r
A poet of extremes who can mean love when he says death and death when he
says love, our beloved ragman Crowkeeper has voluntarily toiled beneath
minimalist constraints so severe that Twitters word limit is as nothing to
him. In 2015 Mistigris digitally reprinted his 1999 collection Scarecrow
Poetics, but he is even more active writing today -- neck and neck with
Horsenburger as our most prolific contributor of all time!
twitter.com/crowkeep
Everyone has a different road to textmode art. Docpop had to first conquer the
world of the yo-yo before finding his way here, in a roundabout fashion. So
if you think you have something to say about niche passions... youve got
another thing coming! But I damn him with faint praise, also adept in the
fields of game design and chiptune music. Youll just have to look him up to
get the full story.
docpop.org
The Elk is a character who we have crossed paths with several times under
several different guises, but he is difficult to put your finger on for long.
electronsfromacorns.com
You dont get to see all aspects of an artists creative practice manifest in
a computer artpack you probably wont get a chance to see EmmaDobles work
in ceramics in these pages, but if you settle for her pixelart, its a well
worthwhile consolation prize.
instagram.com/pixelemme
FarrellLego prefers a broader canvas for his brick mosaics, engaging all
manner of nerdy subjects against grey studded backings... hoping against hope
that he doesnt, again, run out of pieces!
instagram.com/farrelllegos
God Among Lices artwork is at least as accessible as his nickname, if not
necessarily moreso. Starting with representative art in the RIPscrip vector
format, he has spent a couple of decades wandering down the abstracting garden
path of generative art -- but always informed by excellent, if invisible,
theory.
instagram.com/generativephil
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
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
Every medium has several modes: a pre-modern approach, a clean modern
style, and a post-modern detournement, often in the glitch idiom. In
Jellica Jake, teletext has found its glitch ma/onster! It is such a simple
3-bit medium there quite simply isnt the complexity needed for things to go
really wrong, but somehow this artist, doing more with less, has found depths
of texture to imply psychological profundity between the lines.
twitter.com/jellicajake / instagram.com/jellica / kittenrock.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
Kazunari Kalcha Naito represents the tip of an iceberg we know little of and
understand still less of -- Japans ShiftJIS parallel textmode art scene. His
works are informed by his interests in 70s prog rock, jazz, and fine art.
Not that its a competition, but you dont get to call yourself a proper
vintage technology enthusiast until youve exported images youve made on an
Apple II to textile patterns printed on a Jacquard power loom. By these
stringent standards, its possible that kris10roos is in fact the only proper
vintage technology enthusiast!
kristenroos.com
The idea was so great it was inevitable that it would spontaneously emerge in
different contexts: Kurogao is another visionary straddling the related but
very different worlds of ASCII art and emoji typography, blending both into
single-panel vignettes.
instagram.com/kurogao96
Part of a feral tribe of uncontacted textmode artists at the 8bitMUSH at
ANSIART.COM, LDA emerges from a family pixel art concern to grace us with the
imagery of his people.
ldb Laura Brown is a rare bird, perhaps the last practitioner standing of
good old UseNet-style ASCII art, with a masterful command over economy of
slashes, parentheses and asterisks.
asciiartist.com
LittleBitSpace experiments with ASCII art, now turning it into a line art
medium, now dabbling with the use of negative space, superimposed for effect
against high resolution backgrounds.
instagram.com/littlebitspace
Mavenmob is an interesting case, informed by equal parts of the philosophy of
J. Krishnamurti and his artscene youth in Blade and Echo. His most recent
undertaking is a game called The Word Is Not The Thing. Our lit division
may need to beg to differ.
mavenmob.com / instagram.com/mavenmob
You wont see any of Mavriks creative work in this archive, 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
Max Mouse, mysterious denizen of our home area code of 604, has found his way
-- once again -- back to BBSes and ANSI art after a long time soaking up the
rays of enlightment.
twitter.com/MaxMouse
Migmoog brings an animators demented sensibilities to the realm of pixelart.
@migmoog
Mr. Biffo is most likely the most famous individual to have appeared in a
Mistigris artpack, being known by an entire generation of UK youth from the
decade-long run of his Teletext video games magazine Digitizer. Turns out that
he, also, couldnt escape the siren lure of his onetime medium and has somehow
also been tricked out of teletext retirement... between installments of his
eerie Found Footage video series!
twitter.com/mrbiffo / digitiser2000.com
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
Just Another Geek from Costa Rica, N1njaF1reman just who put out that fire
anyway? got into ANSI art by accident after finding out through a line of
work living in the terminal that the BBS scene still lives, enjoying the
good challenge of ANSIs restricted color count and low resolution. Larger
subjects may lie ahead!
instagram.com/n1njaf1reman
Ozunaga is just getting warmed up... put on your welders goggles and stand
back!
instagram.com/ozunaga
Indie game developer Papercookies is this months Textmode Friends special
guest star.
papercookies.itch.io
There are many roads to textmode artwork IRC channels are as legitimately
valid an avenue as any. Emerging from the MIRCart realm into the world of
artpacks, Picrotoxin brings a fresh perspective to a classic medium.
instagram.com/picrotoxin
Pixel Art For The Heart paints landscapes in pixelart, but always adjusts the
dramatic slider well beyond recommended settings.
jonathanrawlings.com
Part of a peculiar current of untapped anxious ANSI art energy charging new
talents on the periphery of the digital underground, this time around Odd got
zapped with the voltage.
@TheOddFireCat
Polyducks Ben Jones 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
Retroshark has good taste in friends, recently joining Polyducks and Rhoq in
making the Jabberwock Game Boy ROM for a jam.
twitter.com/retrostark
Rhoq is not only a creator but a veritable scholar of pixelart.
twitter.com/rhoq7
Sassafras, our primary gateway to the FANSI world of the 8bitMUSH, makes
another sporadic appearance from the wilder reaches of textmode art.
ansiart.com/Info/Artist/Sassafras
Ed Starstew Stastny is that rare synthesis suggested in the two-word phrase
computer artist, practicing a species of net.art at SITO continually since
even prior to the establishment of Mistigris. Having mastered and
subsequently discarded so many styles and approaches, wearing the masks of a
half-dozen faux handles he could easily masquerade as an entire artgroup. Or
has he in fact been doing this... all along?
instagram.com/starstew / starstew.tumblr.com
Carl TeletextR Attrill represents Mistigris continuing wave of
introducing the great public textmode art tradition -- teletext -- to the
underground computer artscene.
teletextr.blogspot.com / @carlosteletextr
Textmode experimenter t1po has it backwards, bringing computer art
sensibilities to typewriters and typewriter sensibilities to computers.
Failing to cross the streams wouldnt yield anything extraordinary, while going
contrariwise both ways makes strange magic emerge from the dullest artifacts of
the mundane. Nice trick!
instagram.com/ty.p0 / t1po.tumblr.com
Uglifruit is the alter-ego of Andy Jenkinson. Andy is quite tall does things
with music. Andy on occasion feels the need to express himself elsewhere.
andyjenkinson.com / twitter.com/andyuglifruit
upper.case: storytelling pixelartist or pixel-illustrating storyteller? Why
not both?
instagram.com/upper.case
Communities of text art practice emerge through certain social contexts but
the basic premise is such an appealing idea that it keeps getting invented and
reinvented. XTComics draws comic strips using a combination of low ASCII
characters and emoji, and this month they are the exception to prove the rule.
instagram.com/xtcomics
Zen is no stranger to textmode art, with an extensive portfolio of work minted
in the MIRCart side of the scene.
mircart.org/?tagzen
Yet another tireless participant of the UKs teletext renaissance, it seems
almost inevitable that we would provide a home for Alistair ZXGuesser Crees
playful screens beneath our umbrella.
zxnet.co.uk
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