ÜÛÛÛÜÜÜܲ²ÛÜÜß ßÛÛÜ ÜÛÛÛß ÛÛÛßÛÜÜ ßß ÜÜÛßßÛÜÜ ÞÛÛÛÛÛÞÞÞÞ ÞÛÛÛÝ ÛÛÛ ÛÛÛ ÛÛÛ ÛÛÜÜ ÛÛÞ ÛÛÛ ßÛÛÛÜ ÛÛ²° ÛÛÛÝ ÛÛÛ ßßßÛÛÜ ÞÛÛÝ ÞÛÛÝ ÜÜÜ ÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÞÛÛÝ Û²² ßÛÛÜÜÛÛß ÜÛÛÛÛÛÜ ÜÜÜÜ ßßÛÛÛÛß sp ßßßß ÞÛÛÛ²²ÛÛÝÞÛÛÜ ßÛÛÛÛÛßÜÛ²²ÛÝ MARCH2017 ÜÛÛÜßßÛÜÞÛÛÛÛß ÜÛ²ÛÛßßÜÜÝÜßÜÜÛÜ artpack ßß ÜÛÛ²Û ÛÛÛÛÛß ßßß ßmember list 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. We have featured 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 ** Awesome Angela of Sleepy Stitch does in real life what many of us do virtually: arranging mosaics of coloured picture elements into 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 creating 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 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 **  Claire Roberts is a multi-disciplinary thing-doer, using dance, fire, & voice for play in creative communities, and makes a living in the games industry as a 3D artist. You can find her latest work in Blueprint Reality's recent tactile VR puzzle game "Awaken". braveandreal.com / claireroberts.net ** Mistigris is a few months older than Cookieheart, but classic themes possess an eternal appeal to this Colombian artist, who works in both sketchbook and pixelart idioms. facebook.com/artbycookieheart / instagram.com/cookieheart_ ** A man of the world, Dubaiwalla has recently decided to begin paying closer attention to the endless buffet served up to his eyes and take up photography. instagram.com/dubaiwalla / hooloovoo.aminus3.com ** 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 ** Dan "Illarterate" Farrimond 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 that's a bad thing? @illarterate / teletextart.tumblr.com danfarrimond.co.uk / portfolio.illarterate.co.uk ** Arts Program Coordinator chez l'Ecole Canadienne Bilingue de Paris, painter Jordan Lyric is not the first person to appear in a Mistigris artpack after one of their siblings did, but in his case the delay has probably been the most pronounced. patreon.com/user?u=4842173 ** 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 ** Dropping art on Mistigris when our orbits came into conjunction, the vanguard of our antipodean contingent Maeve Wolf has pulled off an extraordinary second act, and has continued making art ever since those salad days went in the compost. dashsharon.tumblr.com / dashsharon.instagram.com ** Melodia doesn't need an artgroup, she is an artgroup. One more case of the parade continuing after the band stopped playing, courtesy of the bottomless music in her head she kept on keeping on -- and indeed, has never stopped. We are humbled by her continuing association with us, as to her, all we have to offer is drag factor! soundcloud.com/empressplay / @empressplay ** 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 / instagram.com/the_mythical_man **   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 ** TABNet's last bastard standing, Otnoo Ishphoo's delightfully polymorphically perverse brain expresses its endless creativity in endless forms. ** Polyducks (Ben Jones) 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 ** An Amiga .MOD-tracker hero formerly of EuphoniX, having worked his way through more than a few game development studios in the meantime Redeye (at one time aka Marauder) appears in Mistigris as a cultivator of abstract themes in photography. instagram.com/redeyephoto ** Until being accidentally invoked by a recent Mistigram posting, long-lost Mistigris Classic alumnus reNM8r (Reanimator) 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/ ** Spear last appeared in a Mistigris artpack as a guest in May of 1998, and the fragmentary FILE_ID.DIZ he drew for us circa then finally found use here. ** 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 ** Carlos "TeletextR" Attrill 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 ** Every time I include her in an artpack, I find myself completely rewriting Theresa Oborn's bio, as though I might somehow hew closer to the truth, like a darts player hoping to hit a bullseye. She draws and sculpts, and perhaps the work speaks for itself. theresaoborn.tumblr.com / etsy.com/ca/shop/TheresaMO theresamo.deviantart.com ** First exposed to Teletex back in the late '80s spending 2 years making teletex style pages with ViewData as part of school IT (& reading the adventures of Turner the Worm and Baboozle on Channel 4 teletex), currently TitaniumDave works in the games industry -- though his interest in Teletex was re-ignited by the (sadly-missed) recent [Feb 2017] Block Party in Cambridge. davehingley.deviantart.com ** 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 ** mistigris.org instagram.com/mistfunk twitter.com/mistfunk mistfunk.tumblr.com SAUCE00MIST0317 memberlist Cthlu and Spear Mistigris 20170314d(Pû