Hallucigenia Infofile
...November 1998...

In case you were wondering, the dot above is actually a hallucigenia logo
as seen from 10 miles away.. I have a whole bunch of school stuff that needs to
be done by next week so that's all the ansi you're getting out of me today.

Don't worry though, the rest of the pack is MUCH better.

NewsNewsNews

After all the effort we put in last month's HAL-o-ween pack, this month hasbeen pretty quiet in Hallucigenia-land. News of note would be that my
co-founder, Happyfish, left Vancouver this month for a nine month, cross-Canada
volunteer program this month called 'Katimavik'. She's presently stationed in
Red Deer and, at last report, having a grand time. As a result I have taken overcontrol of KitschNet and am now the sole semi-producing member of the lowrez
department--hence the general lack of ansi headers this month. Which brings me
to my next point...

Calling All Artists

This marks our sixth pack and a half a year of solid releases behind us. Ifyou're still with us and still watching our progress, it's my hope that we've
made some kind of impression on you. The goal of the first sixth months has
always been to create a stable foundation for ourselves and I think we can
proudly say that we've been able to do that.. now it's time for something more.

The first part of this something more is broadening our membership. At
present we have highly productive--and talented--hirez and real world art
departments and part of their success was the assigning of coordinators to thoseareas. Initially I got Komando (hirez) and Silent Knight (real world art) for
those departments in an effort to lighten my own workload, but they've also
been able to strengthen those departments through their presence. It is our
hope that coordinators for Hallucigenia's other three departments will have a
similar effect.

Hallucigenia is looking for coordinators for its music department,
lit department and lowrez art (ansi/ascii) department. We're not looking for
the most talented or the most prestigious names to fill these roles. We want
dedicated people who are willing to take some time to help us build a really
great group. The coordinator's main tasks will be recruitment--to just get out
there and make contacts--and to help out with the members in their department.
If this sounds of interest to you, please contact me and we'll see about
setting you up.

And, of course, we're always accepting members to all our departments,
(lowrez, hirez, lit, music and real world art). There's an application file in
the pack and an online application form on our website.

Now with that out of the way, on with the pack...

Members & Guests

Our new member this month is Iris of hirez who brings us some faerie filledartwork. Also joining us this month from the Altered Reality club of Simon
Fraser University is Erekose with some very wild-looking black and white
designs.

Joint Projects

A couple interesting joint pieces this month. The first, (our-tree.jpg),
is from the infamous Catbones of ACiD and our own optikNurv. This piece has
already been released in ACiD's October pack but it didn't quite make the
deadline for last month's Hallucigenia pack.. hence, here it is now. Another
joint work is between one of our real world artists, Triana, and the hirez
talents of Pisces3d. At Triana's request her original sketch (ti-dragn.jpg) has
been included along with the finished piece (us-dragn.jpg).

Website

Just a quickie note about the website, we had some difficulties with
Monolith so the old hallucigenia.ml.org doesn't point directly to the new
website. We're in the process of getting a permanent URL but for now, a quicker
way to get there is dfact.ml.org/hallucigenia

KitschNet

Included in this month's pack is a new KitschNet infopack which makes note
of the change of host and provides the lastest nodelist for the net.

Nothing Left to Say

Happy pack wandering.

-Etana--
group coordinator of
Hallucigenia