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MEMBERLiSTiGRiS Longtime cybernaut Arishlea is more likely to express herself using a stalk of rhubarb than in the medium of computer art, but in this case the readymades provided by the degrading interactions between the sun's ultraviolet rays and the corner pharmacy's vinyl signage were simply too splendidly unsettling to keep to herself. Who needs Photoshop? In time, the ravages of existence will reduce us all to monsters. instagram.com/arishlea -- 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 -- Artist, gamer, scientist... not necessarily in that order, Bhaal_Spawn is principally a graphite pencil artist, drawing for employers and smaller clients, but outside of the day job, has a love of science, sci-fi, fantasy and computer games. When relaxing, like most people they want to avoid work, but... still have a love of art. As for the particular mechanics of the #gamerhaikus series: "I write the haiku as a note, then take a screen shot, turning it into a picture. I crop it. Then you can draw on the picture with the markup tool in the iPhone pictures app! You get about 8 colours and 3 pen sizes and poke away... " etsy.com/uk/shop/YavinPaints / twitter.com/Bhaal_Spawn -- Brad "Bonemouse" Morris has clearly kept his pen sharp in the many long years since contributing to Dream Factory and Cthulu's high school newspaper, as he demonstrates with this reel of incredible #inktober b-sides. instagram.com/bonemouse -- Another member of the 8bitMUSH's hidden FANSI fellowship, clear emerges from the murkiest obscurity to allow us to share with a wider audience his perfect example of textmode minimalist elegance. instagram.com/ignacio.ese -- 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 -- 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 scenes with keyframeonline.com and tiltedwindmills.com www.athenacooper.ca / twitter.com/athenacooper -- In over 20 years on the arts & culture beat, Freelance Pete (aka Peter Guindon) is arguably the most unrecognized genius I have yet come across. Illustration, 2D animation, and heartbreaking ukulele ballads for the underemployed generation. If you don't blink, you can see his handiwork in Ripping Friends, Busytown Mysteries, Lalaloopsy, and Simpsons Tapped Out. pguindon.blogspot.com -- Gleeborp Wootman uses the Novix Pixel Editor for Android to make low resolution pixelart of pop culture characters. This is their first appearance in an artpack. instagram.com/gleeborp -- 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? twitter.com/illarterate / 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 -- Over the past two years, J…nos Hor…k has burgeoned from 2D pixelart novice to 3D panorama boundary-pusher! If he only ever appears in our sack of trick-or- treat goodies, it's still a distinct and highly memorable flavour! horakdesign.hu/eddigi-munkak -- 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. -- It was quite intimidating to approach Toren "MacBin" Atkinson with a misspelled Lovecraftian nickname, as he fronts the world's greatest tribute band to that particular brand of eldritch cosmic horror -- The Darkest Of The Hillside Thickets. That is but one of the many marks he's made on popular culture -- here in this collection he represents Hallowe'en oldschool style drilling down deep into his portfolio for a set of grimoirious demons from a 2002 sourcebook for the RPG "Legions of Hell". They may be 15 years old, but they are well and truly infernal. thickets.net / torenatkinson.com / patreon.com/torenatkinson -- 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 -- Maylee Helene has chased the muse across two continents with a squeezebox strapped on before settling down and taking up residence atop a particularly dudely tower just across the water. Her Instagram is the right kind of hot mess. instagram.com/mayleehelene -- 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 -- Mondo Charisma aka Christopher Rooney is an outsider poet and musician whose influences come from punk and music concrete as well as traditional folk music. His book Haiku Dante: The Inferno was recently published by ARDUS Publications. soundcloud.com/desolation-sound -- 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... between installments of his eerie Found Footage video series! 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 -- Nail has been known for stacking blocks for Fire and The Legion in the past, and, since his return to the scene, 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. It is only thanks to his ministrations that our most important artpacks of the year bear the trappings of traditional artpacks at all, his logos gracing our infofiles and the all- important FILE_ID.DIZ. instagram.com/sevendxs / twitter.com/nail7 -- From his tiny apartment in Berlin, Picture.Elements pixels what he likes from pop culture -- music, movies, and gaming passion, like a pixelart reblogging of Stuff He Likes. He is fascinated by the CGA palette, which he finds endlessly satisfying. instagram.com/picture.elements -- 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.co / twitter.com/pinguino -- 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 Mistigram posting, long-lost Mistigris Classic alumnus reNM8r (Reanimator) had 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 -- Spitoufs started messing about in the DS homebrew 'scene' back in 2006 doing game graphics, branching out into ANSI art, pixelart, and further game development with collaborators. The SHMUP based on the art of Salvacdor Dali has shipped but... there's still so much to do! :D spitoufs.com / twitter.com/spitoufs -- 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 schol IT ( & reading the adventures of Turner the Worm and Bamboozle on Channel 4 teletex), apparently TitaniumDave works in the games industry -- though his interest in Teletex was re-ignited by the (sadly-missed) Feb 2017 Block Party in Cambridge. -- Uglifruit is the alter-ego of Andy Jenkinson. Andy is quite tall does things with music. Andy on occasion feels the need to express himself elsewhere. andyjenkinson.com / twitter.com/andyuglifruit -- Aurelien "Wasabim" Vaillant is a French retrogamer of the Atari ST variety who pays homage to and celebrates his beloved nostalgia by mashing up classic box and sprite art with stock photography and computer FX. If you like what he brings to the games room, please do note that he is available for projects. wasabim.com / twitter.com/wasabimgames -- 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 and if you really need to find us on Flickr, Pinterest (?!), Google+ or YouTube, you can Google us there 8) SAUCE00MIST1017 memberlist nail and cthulu MiSTiGRiS / 67 20161104¨OPqIBM VGA