.-.-. .-.-. .-.-. .-.-. .-.-. .-.-. .-.-. .-.-. .-.-.    ( M .' ( i .' ( S .' ( T .' ( i .' ( G .' ( R .' ( i .' ( S .'     `.( `.( `.( `.( `.( `.( `.( `.( `.( MIST0217 MEMBERLIST: Awesome Angela of Sleepy Stitch does in real life what many of us do virtually: arranging mosaics of coloured picture elements into mosaics of more than the sum of their parts. An avowed "nerdy narcoleptic", her cottage industry helps to defray the cost of medical treatment not covered by insurance. In Her Own Words: "I got my bachelors of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute... during which I got diagnosed with cancer. My health is a constant battle both physically and emotionally, but breating art is the only thing that keeps me calm and allows me to escape into it away from the realities that suck." I think she just said a mouthful, folks! instagram.com/awesomeangela13 / facebook.com/sleepystitch -- A minor but popular aspect of Adam Matlock's musical practice as An Historic involves exploring new and original accordion arrangements of songs sourced from the wider canon of popular music, especially from pop culture sources such as movies, television shows and video games. This month we feature another of his recordings of tunes from mid-'90s Square console games, because while it's always a fun trick to adapt and convert real-life art to digital forms, it's exponentially more delightful to reverse that workflow and burden a human of finite capabilities with tasks designed to be executed flawlessly by a square of silicon. anhistoricaccordion.tumblr.com / anhistoricmusic.blogspot.com -- 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 -- Daniel Wickert is a multidisciplinary visual artist who works in a variety of mediums including painting, collage, ceramics, sculpture, photography and mixed media. For this series he has photographed sections of his previous works created in a variety of mediums and proceeded to experiment with mirroring the images in various ways to create new works of art. Through digital mirroring, new forms and figures emerge to create exciting new visual experiences. Wickert intends to utilize the results of this process by bringing these digital images back into the physical world through printing and by using them as templates for new painted works. -- Writer, artist, and animator, Etana has remained wholly immersed in the arts on a daily basis since the dusk of the artscene, hammering out her own scene with keyframeonline.com tiltedwindmills.com / www.athenacooper.ca / @athenacooper -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Maeve Wolf (aka Tatharina) - Historically dropping art on Mistigris when our orbits came into conjunction, the synaesthetic vanguard of our antipodean contingent has pulled off an extraordinary second act, and has continued making art ever since those salad days wound up in the compost. dashsharon.tumblr.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 -- 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 -- We caught the attention of Ranbahol with a Sleepy Stitches recursive Mario piece in MIST0117, at which point this Japanese textile artist said "Hold my Asahi". @ranbahol7924118 -- 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. 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 / sito.org -- Carlos "TeletextR" represents Mistigris' continuing wave of introducing the other great textmode art tradition -- teletext -- to the underground computer artscene. teletextr.blogspot.com / twitter.com/that_other_Carl -- 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 -- Zarah had a front row seat for the slowly dimming ember of Mist Classic, but somehow it has taken until now for our paths to converge again in this context. She makes compositions about what she sees, minus the words. instagram.com/breeonne  _ __ _ ( ' ) >>--->>>---> >>---> ( ' ) \ / \ / ` Happy Valentines Day ` ldb