ú ú ú \__ __/ ú /_/ /\ \_\ ú __ \ \/ / __ ú \_\_\/\/_/_/ __/\___\ \/ /___/\__ \/ __/ \__ \/ /_/ /\/\ \_\ ú ú__/ /\ \__ ú \_\ \/ /_/ ú /\ MiSTiGRiS Dec. 2017 The sole proprietor of the Digitallusions netlabel, Atari ST electronic music Admiral Skuttlebutt composed .MODs like they were going out of style. Which they were. -- Yet another tireless participant of the UK's teletext renaissance, it seems almost inevitable that we would provide a home for Alistair "ZXGuesser" Cree's playful screens beneath our umbrella. twitter.com/zxguesser -- 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 -- Bonemouse lords over #inktober drawings in the key of spooky, but as he handily demonstrates: if you're committed, you can spook along all year round. instagram.com/bonemouse -- When he's not drawing snow on to C64 game screenshots, Vinny "C64_endings" Mainolfi is running & editing the FREEZE64 fanzine, which has just reached its 15th issue... one more than our Kithe!. twitter.com/c64_endings -- 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_ -- 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 -- A longtime local late-night 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 -- Garlic Joy's appearance in this artpack, a photograph taken through an airplane window, was likelier less expensive than her previous appearance, a broken Apple monitor. -- 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 -- 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/ -- 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. -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Pixel Art For The Heart represents one particular aspect of Jonathan Rawlings' digital art practice, a series of minimalist pixelart landscapes. This is his first appearance in an artpack. instagram.com/pixel_art_for_the_heart/ / jonathanrawlings.com -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. 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