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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 -- As a victory lap following his winning the 2017 Blender compo and consequently very prominently in the Fuel revival artpack, the artist known as Burps (ah, artists, always taking themselves so seriously!) ducked in to grace us with a much-needed (and much-appreciated!) FILE_ID.DIZ for the ages, which we have re-used to decorate these infofiles also. Thanks, Burps! -- 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. We plunder her back catalogue this month for celebrations of Spring, which is just about in full effect in Canada -- just as Autumn is setting in on her side of the Equator! facebook.com/artbycookieheart / instagram.com/cookieheart_ -- Ironically, despite being initially brought on board to round out our April Fool's collection, our Polish member Creonix has been earnestly and relentlessly representing Mistigris with great sincerity at continental demoparties, winning prizes and counting a great many polys along the way. -- 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 -- A longtime late-night local fellow traveller through underground radio, electronic music, postmodernism and e-mail lists (his the legendary Shrumtribe -- how's that for your millennial zeitgeist?), it's perhaps surprising that our paths didn't formally cross with FugitivePhilo sooner, but there you have it... cyberspace can sometimes be a surprisingly large temporary autonomous zone, unsurprisingly filled with an abundance of distractions and dead ends. @fugitivephilo / csun.academia.edu/tobiascvanVeen -- 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? teletextart.tumblr.com / danfarrimond.co.uk / portfolio.illarterate.co.uk -- Every medium has several modes: a pre-modern approach, a clean "modern" style, and a post-modern detournement, often in the "glitch" idiom. In Jellica Jake, teletext has found its glitch m(a/on)ster! It is such a simple 3-bit medium there quite simply isn't the complexity needed for things to go really wrong, but somehow this artist, doing more with less, has found depths of texture to imply psychological profundity between the lines. twitter.com/jellicajake / instagram.com/jellica_______ / kittenrock.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. -- Robert "LordNikon" Doerfler makes a guest appearance in a medium that isn't his ordinary extraordinary sideline -- adding "typewriter art" to his list of mediums mastered, appearing just below "oldschool ASCII art", he's taking a page from Mistigris artpacks and trying his hand at teletext. When in Rome... typewriter-art.de / bloerp.de / lordnkon.tumblr.com / facebook.com/lordnkon -- You won't see any of Mavrik's creative work in this archive, but there's 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 Mist's KiTSCHNet echomail network from its home at Daemon's Gate BBS. daemonsgate.com -- Maze is perhaps best known for facilitating access to the computer art of others through his best-of-show web gallery at textmod.es, but as demonstrated here, he also makes some of his own! The style and presumably means of production are a bit non-standard, meaning that this is most definitely the right place for it! maze.io -- 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 -- A veritable patron of the arts, Morgan Lee, longtime Mistigris textile consultant, graciously allowed us to release another needlepoint project this time around. instagram.com/morganleemcpherson -- Mr. Biffo is most likely the most famous individual to have appeared in a Mistigris artpack, being known by an entire generation of UK youth from the decade-long run of his Teletext video games magazine Digitizer. Turns out that he, also, couldn't escape the siren lure of his onetime medium and has somehow also been tricked out of teletext retirement for at least one final engagement. twitter.com/mrbiffo / digitiser2000.com -- The man, the myth... Mythical Man handily satisfies both categories. Long known for his prowess on the euphonium, visual art is a relatively recent development to which he has applied himself ardently. euphoniousmyth.tumblr.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 -- 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. renm8r.blogspot.com -- 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 -- Carl "TeletextR" Attrill represents Mistigris' continuing wave of introducing the great public 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.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) Feb 2017 Block Party in Cambridge. davehingley.deviantart.com -- dawdler and doodler. everyone is an artist nowadays. but Unseen Fate (Antti Minkkinen) is also an ANSI artist. finland. iconosquare.com/minkant -- Even (especially?) with innocuous subjects, the glitch aesthetic -- which xer0 demonstrates handily -- has no option but to 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 DISTRIBUTION SITES: telnet://bbs.inktwo.com:23 telnet://guardian.synchro.net pc.textmod.es/crew/mistigris/ sixteencolors.net artpacks.org mistigris.org instagram.com/mistfunk twitter.com/mistfunk tumblr.com/mistfunk