MIST1023 contributing artists:
2Stoned hails from the Los Angeles area not to be confused with the Dutch
scener who goes by the same handle and is a creative with a 40-year
fascination of the demoscene. He loves all forms of retro computer art due to
the challenge of pushing the perceived limitations. Most of his ANSI work is
unpublished visual experiments, but occasionally he creates art for his
friends in the BBS community.
twitter.com/2Sart
Ansispoon has been tinkering in the ANSI art workshop for quite some time with
anime playing in the background and some of their just-for-fun experiments are
getting far enough to appear in artpacks. We are pleased to present some of
these.
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.
twitter.com/pixelblip1
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
Born into an IBM household, Darokin has long lurked on the periphery of the
demoscene. Making hundreds of creative coding .GIFs in Processing proved a
gateway to taking the leap from pixelart to textmode art over the last decade,
getting lots of practice employing ASCII art stylez in designing gig posters.
@darokin / darokin.tumblr.com
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 / @grymmjack@mas.to
El Hombre Lombre is a pixelart illustrator and animator, recently branching
out into the world of textmode art.
gabrielmachado.carrd.co / twitter.com/ElHombreLombre
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
bsky.app/profile/illarterate.bsky.social
Kurogao is another bleeding edge textmode visionary straddling the related
but very different worlds of ASCII art and emoji typography, blending both
into vignettes.
instagram.com/kurogao96 / twitter.com/kurogao961
littlebitspace experiments with text art, now turning it into a line art
medium, now dabbling with the use of negative space.
littlebitspace.com / mas.to/@littlebitspace / @littlebitspace.bsky.social
Mavenmob is an interesting case, informed by equal parts of the philosophy of
J. Krishnamurti and his artscene youth in Blade and Echo.
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
Migmoog brings an animators demented sensibilities to the realm of pixelart.
@migmoog
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 / @polyducks
vermileonhart has been into tech since I was a little kid, Ive been
fiddling with computers all my life but my heart has always yearned for the
arts and any means of creative expression... sadly, Ive never been good at
it, or couldnt find any medium that felt fulfilling.
But one particular night it came to me... ASCII art. I remembered my dad and
I playing in his old DOS computer, writing shit into terminals and getting
drawings made with text. And it was like an epiphany: I could make art that
was in my tech realm, and it would pay homage to those old days when I was a
kid and everything was alright. So I became obsessed with it... I started
looking for anything related to ASCII art, found out about BBSs, art packs...
all of that.
And that got me here.
twitter.com/vermileonhart
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
home base:
mistigris.org
affiliated BBSes:
conchaos.synchro.net
excelsiorbbs.ddn.net:2000
bbs.inktwo.com:23
bbs.planetcaravan.org
erb.pw/the-bbs
bbs.stormbbs.com
web galleries:
artpacks.org
demozoo.org/groups/22737
chat with us at:
discord.gg/9R84QUN
oldbytes.space/@mistfunk
or find us on social media as mistfunk at:
Blogspot, Bluesky, Cohost, Dreamwidth, Flickr, Instagram, Threads,
Tiktok, Tumblr, Twitter, Wordpress, YouTube
and our usual round of greetz to our colleagues at: blocktronics.org, Fire
Graphics, Lazarus, Legacy, impure.nl, hermanas del perro magnetico, galza.org,
ArakNet and TABNet! turning an incredible 30 years old next month, yow!