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He returns with another accordion Daft Punk arrangement. Any idiot can push the analogue into a computer, but it takes a sublime idiot savant to drag the digital, kicking and screaming, out of the computer and into the world of the analog. youtube.com/user/antonvanoosbree / soundcloud.com/anton-van-oosbree -- Arielle Tenaya 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 -- 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 -- Bliss is another of our rotating cast of seasoned textmode artist guest-stars visiting from the alt-ANSI utopia of the 8bitMUSH at ansiart.com, handy with their screen-condensed, palette-extended variant, described as FANSI. She often is concerned with video game subjects, but her interest in fixed-width pixelart also extends into the textile realm. instagram.com/@hollydollydinkleberry -- A scout from the textmode Yanomami at the 8bitMUSH at ansiart.com, cccfire's burgeoning ANSI works increasingly involve exploring fine typographical details beyond the point of distorting abstraction. -- 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 all through the summer, 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 man of the world, Dubaiwalla has decided to pay closer attention to the endless buffet served up to his eyes and take up photography. instagram.com/dubaiwalla / hooloovoo.aminus3.com -- The only one among us to ever play jaw harp in a Lucasarts adventure game, Ereneta persists in his discovery of found readymades. timereneta.com / instagram.com/tim.ereneta -- 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 athenacooper.ca / twitter.com/athenacooper -- Freddy43 is an AuDioVisUal artist from Wicked City in the Netherlands. Like Creonix, he has recently been representing Mistigris at demoparties to good effect! freddy43.info / facebook.com/ojajoh soundcloud.com/freddy43 / youtube.com/user/4X3Freddy -- 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 -- Possessed of a playful and impish mind, of all Mist's alumni Happyfish can most be described as marching to the beat of her own drum -- or in her case, her own banjola. This time around, she's not drawing ANSI art like she was in 1997 -- it actually is her ANSI art from 1997. brookeabbey.com / twitter.com/hsifyppah -- 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 -- 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/ -- John Ernest: a polarizing figure in the modern ANSI art community, this '90s alumnus of such esteemed artgroups as ACiD, Avenge and Fire has since immersed himself deep into matters of programming. He has advanced many interesting and noteworthy projects, but the one primarily of concern to us here today is his modern-day revisitation to the artscene's forbidden crutch: a framework for converting bitmap pictures to ANSI art. github.com/ShiningKnightLight/ -- 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. -- Though we've been in each others' orbits since circa 2004 (thanks to ICQ!), this is the first time our formal and thematic wish lists have aligned with the output of tireless designer Leah Nilson (sometimes aka mistyescape, aka deerscare). leahnilson.com -- 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 -- Max Mouse, mysterious denizen of our home area code of 604, has found his way back to BBSes and ANSI art after a long time soaking up the rays of enlightment. twitter.com/MaxMouse__ -- We have focused only on a brief sampling of her abstract paintings, but Melissa Grimm has a much wider range including collages and jewelry design. melissagrimm.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 -- A veritable patron of the arts, Morgan Lee, longtime Mistigris textile consultant, has continued apace in her mission of needlepoint pixelart cartography. While textile work falls outside the traditional confines of the underground computer artscene, really -- as the original pixelart artform and indeed the original computer artform -- it has more similarities than dissimilarities with the work we do, so we are happy to continue championing it. instagram.com/morganleemcpherson -- 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 -- Almost certainly the last piece of ANSI art Naknak will ever release, his Lovecraftian selection in this collection has been gathering dust for over a decade. naknak.deviantart.com -- 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 -- Ranbahol works slowly but deliberately; the textile piece included in this artpack is the immediate follow-up to the related piece released here ten months ago. Slow and steady... what do you mean, in another castle? @ranbahol7924118 -- 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 -- Music machine JaZz got a little confused when the scene shifted (rocking the Amiga, his scene got rocked a little earlier than the PC kids'), but shaking his head he picked himself back up and has kept on keeping on. Now Jason Johannson (aka Theorica) has managed to keep his creative flame burning through his extraordinary everyday, and in this collection he offers a compelling glimpse into it. soundcloud.com/Theorica -- 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 -- 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 -- From Twilight, the Legion, Avenge, Fire, Fuel and through to Blocktronics today, the Swede known as Zeus II is a one-man ANSI art industry. Also, as it turns out, a bit of a jazz fan. This marks his first guest appearance in a Mistigris artpack. twitter.com/Zeus_II -- MISTIGRIS DISTRIBUTION SITES: telnet://bbs.inktwo.com:23 telnet://guardian.synchro.net bbs.geek.nz pc.textmod.es/crew/mistigris/ 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 look for us there 8) SAUCE00MIST1117 contributing artists Nail / Cthulu mistigris 20171126»CP² IBM VGA