Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û Û ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ± ±m±i±s±t±i±g±r°i°s± ±m±a°r°c±h± ±2±0±1±8± ± ± ± ± ± ± ± ± ± ± ± ± ± ± ± ± ± ± ± ± ± ± ° °k°i°l°r°o°y± ±w±a±s° ±h±e±r±e° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ² ² ² ² ° ² ² ² ² ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ° ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ² ° ° ° ° ° r e a d b e t w e e n t h e l i n e s artpack contributors: 8bitbaba is an accomplished South Asian graphic designer with a side line in minimalist pixel art, which he paints on screens as well as canvases. instagram.com/8bitbaba -- 8bit_poet comes by his small-scale pixelart virtuosity by genuinely oldschool means, in a former life (the late '90s) designing Macintosh program icons as Doc Halpern of Mad Science Laboratories. He is a co-founder of the Dead Pixel Society. instagram.com/8bit_poet / thedeadpixelsociety.net -- 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 -- More or less all there is to know about apam is that he's the author of the Magicka BBS software and a bunch of open-source BBS doors. github.com/apamment / magickabbs.com -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Fine artist Delphine Hennelly has long been finding the sublime in the mundane, and her recent (MIST1116) series of selfie portraits have led her to investigation of screen effects depicted through paint on a canvas. delphinehennelly.com / instagram.com/delphinehennelly -- 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 -- 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 -- ifgen.it writes programs (in notebooks, no doubt) that generate textmode visuals evocative of a bygone era -- lending their retrocomputing output a vintage air even relative to everyone else here! instagram.com/ifgen.it -- 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 -- 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. -- 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__ -- 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 -- 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.com / 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 -- Straddling the interdimensional realms of pixelart and voxelart, Brazilian game developer Scofanogd shares some of his whimsical experiments with us. instagram.com/scofanogd / scofano.com.br -- 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 -- Textmode experimenter t1po has it backwards, bringing computer art sensibilities to typewriters and typewriter sensibilities to computers. Failing to cross the streams wouldn't yield anything extraordinary, while going contrariwise both ways makes strange magic emerge from the dullest artifacts of the mundane. Nice trick! instagram.com/ty.p0 / t1po.tumblr.com -- 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) SAUCE00MIST0318 contributing artists cthulu mistigris 20171126ò-P IBM VGA