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Unthemed Pack by MiSTiGRiS 2021
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List of Participating Artists
Atonalospreys credentials and qualifications for participating in an
undertaking such as the commission of this 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
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
CoaXCable is a helpful sort, always happy to throw in a handful of blocks on
short notice. Wherever we have a rough spot, hes holding it together.
dwimmer began with an interest in fractals and programming art and in a
roundabout fashion found their way to the demoscene and textmode arts,
including ANSI, ASCII and PETSCII.
instagram.com/dwimmer.tm
All that you need to know about Eldrencake is that any Textmode Friend is a
friend well worth having!
Gabs is an accomplished one-bit artist branching out.
twitter.com/gabsdoesart
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
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
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.
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
Lobo started messing about in the DS homebrew scene back in 2006 doing game
graphics, branching out into ANSI art, pixelart, and further game development
with collaborators. The SHMUP based on the art of Salvador Dali has shipped
but... theres still so much to do! :D
spitoufs.com / twitter.com/spitoufs
Mastertavo harnesses simple art and simple designs in the interest of advancing
simple -- but worthwhile -- interactive experiences.
mrtavo.com
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
Nolithius is a professional game developer currently taking a deep dive into
the textmode art aesthetic.
nolithius.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
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
Daniel tatapnhob Tatarinov is here with Polyducks, its cool.
twitter.com/dantatarinov
Thomas Boevith teksttvdk is a teletext artist living in Copenhagen, Denmark.
tekst-tv.dk / twitter.com/teksttvdk
instagram.com/teksttv / facebook.com/teksttv/
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
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
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
MISTIGRIS DISTRIBUTION SITES:
telnet://bbs.inktwo.com:23
16colo.rs/group/mistigris
artpacks.org
mistigris.org
instagram.com/mistfunk
twitter.com/mistfunk
discord.gg/9R84QUN
tumblr.com/mistfunk
and our usual round of greetz to our colleagues at: blocktronics.org, Lazarus,
Legacy, impure.nl, amish.0w.nz, galza.org, Fire Dream, Break, CoolPhat, the
2XL crew, @hirmuofficial, paleotronic.com, soundcloud.com/bitcouver, pHluid,
vanchipmusic.ca, null e-mag, ArakNet and TABNet!
MiSTiGRiS
2021