Ü Ý Ü Üß  ÞÝ ²Ü ÞÝÞÜÝÜß²ÜßÜÜ ±°ß°²Üß Þ°²°Ý °°ÝÜßÞ°ßÝÜß² ß²Ü ß ²±²Üß n! Memberlist Arielle Olivier has never learned how to stop worrying, or love the bomb. Fits well into most overhead storage compartments. Do what you love, it's existentially sound. arielleolivier.wordpress.com / iliarevilelore.tumblr.com -- Last seen in MIST2000, Brad "Bonemouse" Morris' bio extolled the virtues of his demonic covers for Kitsilano High School's "Ideograph" newspaper and his "Rainclouds" story for the Dream Factory comic book anthology. He has clearly kept his pen sharp in the many long years since then, as he demonstrates in this two-year #inktober spree. instagram.com/bonemouse -- Chris Godber appears to have overclocked his brain, with all of the pros and cons entailed, empowering him to express himself in poetry, music, visual art and even video games... but woe be to him should the heat sink behind his left ear ever malfunction. noirvortex.co.uk -- 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 Twitter's 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. twitter.com/crowkeep / scarrow.deviantart.com -- For your amusement, Daniel Wickert has turned his computer into a seafood kaleidoscope. (And to think the fools told him not to get it wet!) -- Delphine Hennelly's series of selfie sister paintings beg questions about gaze and agency. delphinehennelly.com -- Diane Smithers' photographs are plainly worth a thousand words, so what more need be said? dianesmithers.com -- In tandem with Christopher Powell at Imaginary Games, the nuanced visual art of Elin Jonsson has brought the world of the Afterland mobile card game to strange, wonderful life. behance.net/elinjo / facebook.com/imaginarygames -- A genuine professional teletext illustrator two decades hence, Steve "Horsenburger" Horsley has recently returned to the game for love of the art: "It's kind of frustrating to discover you are good at something only to realise it’s pointless in today’s 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 don't delay to get your own piece of textmode art history! horsenburger.com -- An oldschool figure in BBS artscene circles, j33p33 has long since forgotten how well he can draw ANSI, distracted by endless meditations spiralling into hip-hop loops. -- An endlessly creative individual at the Rave On Studio mixing console or before the blank page, it was merely a matter of time before Jenn Ashton picked up a paintbrush and ran with it. jenniferashton.ca/WP/ -- Kazunari "Kalcha" Naito represents the tip of an iceberg we know little of and understand still less of -- Japan's Shift-JIS parallel textmode art scene. His works are informed by his interests in '70s prog rock, jazz, and fine art. pinterest.com/kalcha55/ascii-art / kalcha.wix.com -- 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 -- Lorn Huggins did not do that to the snake, she merely documented what she found after the fact. instagram.com/lornhuggins -- The box artist of many of your favorite childhood video games, Marc Ericksen has graced us for the first time anywhere with a clear view of something scary you may never have had a chance to see before -- his clean, unadulterated artwork for an ad for RTX Red Rock that ran in GamePro #176 behind a confusing mass of red interference (that cleared up when viewed through red transparency.) retrogameart.com / marcericksen.com -- A textbook case of the parade continuing after the band stopped playing, courtesy of the bottomless music in Melodia's head she kept on keeping on -- and indeed, has never stopped. We here include a track (The Rockafella Vampire) from her recently-unearthed collection of thought-lost turn-of-the-century tracker compositions we released as 1999: An .XM Odyssey. This month she has opened the Paleotronic vintage gaming boutique in Victoria, BC! soundcloud.com/empressplay / @empressplay -- The fine arts component of the millennial DTES creative commune known as the Church of Pointless Hysteria, Mister Fire-Man now divides his time between carving Seussical wooden horns from a Strathcona field house and leading community parade workshops with the Legion of Flying Monkeys Horn Orchestra, sometimes in Catalunya. davidgowman.com -- The man, the myth... Mythical Man handily satisfies both categories. Long known for his prowess on the euphonium, painting is a recent development to which he has applied himself ardently. mythical-man.deviantart.com / euphoniousmyth.tumblr.com themythicalman.livejournal.com / instagram.com/the_mythical_man -- Nail has been known for stacking blocks for Fire and The Legion in the past, and, since his return to the scene last year, is doing the very same with old friends in Blocktronics. Deeply rooted in the 16-color world of the Commodore 64, he's also been instrumental in bringing the Galza PETSCII art packs to the attention of its native platform's scene. @nail7 -- Orangeboxman (aka Josh Susanto in Second Life) has an MA in Music Theory from UBC and is a proud graduate of the Sugar Refinery's Scrambled Angst performance series, with a postdoc at Spootify. -- Phatal, one of the "Butchershop 20", is a beach bum par excellence, typically found in a boat or dune buggy somewhere between the Sunshine Coast and Baja California -- and occasionally installed at a sketchbook or easel somewhere in between. -- Pinguino grew up on the internet, doing telco for CiA, and VGA for GAS and Rival. Lately, she runs the design studio Pinguhaus, goes raving on every continent, and experiments with obscure foods -- her latest accomplishment is making ramen noodles out of crickets. The design co-founder of the Cuddli geek dating app, her next project is partying with sled dogs in Greenland. ivomitrainbows.com / @pinguino -- Raquel Meyers is a bona fide computer art star choosing as her (dripping, bloody) axe the PETSCII character set of the Commodore 64. As exemplified in her recent "Lovecraft in Text Mode" project, fortunately for this collection her favorite subject happens to be drawing monsters. raquelmeyers.com -- Until being accidentally invoked by a recent Mistigram posting, long-lost Mistigris Classic alumnus reNM8R has been entirely out of touch with us since 1995 -- but it turns out has spent all of the time since feverishly exercising the right side of his brain playing MUX RPGs and illustrating friends' characters. https://postimg.org/gallery/265xil9j4/ -- 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 -- For the month of #inktober, Theresa Oborn has flattened her creative aspirations, like prisoners in the Phantom Zone, into a contrained two dimensions. There, surprisingly, they are thriving! theresaoborn.tumblr.com / etsy.com/ca/shop/TheresaMO / theresamo.deviantart.com -- All that, and renaissance man Tom Heuckendorff fronts the band Soatoa as well! tomheuckendorff.com / instagram.com/tomheuckendorff -- Whazzit's history with Mistigris dates back to our 1994 inception, and though our paths diverged before long, when talk of our 2014 revival came up he was right there on the front lines with the impossible -- a seemingly endless font of fresh ideas of new applications for a positively archaic artform. We simply can't accommodate all of the experiments, so Blocktronics obliges. instagram.com/whazzit_b7 -- Even (especially?) with innocuous subjects, the glitch aesthetic -- which xer0 demonstrates handily -- has no option but provide an unsettling, vaguely sinister lens through which to view. When he's not cooking up twitchy weirdness for Mist, this longtime underground scenester, a programmer and Unix enthusiast, can be found making appearances with Blocktronics and Impure. xero.nu / 0w.nz / twitter.com/fontvirus / x-ero.tumblr.com -- And the final artists listed are the creators of the first file appearing in the directory alphabetically. 2016_HalloweenX-1.d64 is a Commodore 64 disk image of an impromptu intro written by Peter, Jen, PJ and Clive Pape at a recent get-together of "Vic 64" - Commodore 64 enthusiasts of Victoria. If you have problems executing the program, try the following steps: "Add the disk image, LOAD "*",8,1 and then enter the command SYS 4096" -- ... and I've been Cthulu: three years of revival artpacks, zero original creative works credited to myself. I've got plenty of ideas, but I'd need to take a break from writing infofiles to realise them 8) (Oh yes, and the "distro sites"!)  pc.textmod.es  sixteencolors.net  artpacks.org  The Guardian of Forever BBS - guardian.synchro.net  ... but of course you can most regularly reach us and find out about our activities these days over social media:  mistfunk.tumblr.com  twitter.com/mistfunk instagram.com/mistfunk  mistigris.org SAUCE00MIST1016 Memberlist Cthulu, Nail Mistigris 20161029Ï,P) IBM VGA