ܱ² ÜÜÛÛ Þ²²ß ܲ²²ß °±Ý Þ±±±± ÞÛ°ÝÜ°ß°°Ý ° °°Þ ²Þ°ÛÝ ° Þ²² °° °±°  ²²Û ²Ý ±²± Þ  ÜÜß²Ý ß ²Û² Þ Þ°²²ßÛ²Þ Þ  ±±ß Þ ²²Þ Þ ß ²° Þ mistigris ÞÜÞ Þ nov 2018 ßÛ Þ  XXIV annis ß artpack contributors: 8bitbaba is an accomplished South Asian graphic designer with a side line in minimalist pixel art, which he paints on canvases as well as screens. 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 -- 192.168.10.13 occupies a rarefied echelon of glitch production, like a tree that drops apparently effortless scrambled fruit at peak ripeness. 1013.wtf -- 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 -- Lithuanian games programmer Andrey Fomin is greatly enamoured of the visual aesthetic of ASCII art stickmen and machinery, leaning heavily on it to lend some distinguishing novelty to his game Proto Raider and his upcoming oeuvre ASCIIdent. protoraider.com/puzzlelab.html -- apam is the author of the Magicka BBS software and a bunch of open-source BBS doors, and if he has to draw the ANSI art himself to sell you on them, he's game. github.com/apamment / magickabbs.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 -- Mike "Blippypixel" Rose is a digital artist whose tastes veer toward the vintage in electronic music and visuals, dabbling in low-poly 3D modeling, LED pixelart, and teletext as well as work in the distinctive palette of the BBC Micro. instagram.com/blippypixel -- 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. instagram.com/bonemouse -- Crafter BrownPaperCowgirl is only a computer artist in an historical context, sharing with us a couple of ASCII art type-in selections from her family Sanyo MBC-550 circa 1983. instagram.com/brownpapercowgirl -- 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. -- Periodically we enounter someone who is not only a specialist in a given medium, but who also focuses on a specific theme to the exclusion of all others. Chuppixel is the world's preeminent Tiny Towers-style pixelart movie cast group shot specialist - but as you can see, they are trying to branch out. instagram.com/chuppixel_ / chuppixel.tumblr.com -- Cranksy (previously known as Troll) has been watching from the sidelines for a good long while, and has recently felt moved to finally rejoin the fellowship of underground computer art with some vigour and urgency. A recent composition is joined by a couple of vintage tracks this month. -- 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 -- edging out Horsenburger as our most prolific contributor of all time! twitter.com/crowkeep -- Daniel Wickert is a multidisciplinary visual artist who works in a variety of mediums including painting, collage, ceramics, sculpture, photography and mixed media. He has recently discovered exciting creative possibilities in physical pixelart manifest in reality in the Lego medium. -- 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. We highlight the more mathematically-intriguing architectural side of his portfolio. instagram.com/dubaiwalla / hooloovoo.aminus3.com -- 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 -- Know someone for a decade or so, perform at their wedding, and they still might come up with some surprises for you. Front-end web developer Garann also, it turns out, has a side line in fashion illustration! Which is, like, committing the same crimes as Image Comics, but in the service of truth and beauty! instagram.com/garannillos -- Scene dudes are embedded all over the tech sector -- and it turns out that in Scandinavian games development they're basically impossible to avoid. Grobo recently briefly ducked out of deep cover to share with us an ANSI art celebration of a title recently published by his employer, Starbreeze Studios. instagram.com/andtheniwasabeard -- 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 -- Jamie Graham has a typewriter with a red ink ribbon, and he's not afraid to prove it. instagram.com/jamie_graham93 -- 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 -- 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. -- LambdaCalculus digs deep into the vault to share with us a piece of PD ANSI art promotion for a vaporware product. Vaporware: it's just one letter away from v a p o r w a v e ! twitter.com/lambdacalculus -- 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 -- once again -- back to BBSes and ANSI art after a long time soaking up the rays of enlightment. twitter.com/MaxMouse__ -- Mentalpop is a Toronto-based pixelartist who works in collaboration with indie game development teams and streams their creation sessions for Patreon supporters. mentalpop.ca -- 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 -- my_life_computerized explores the imposition of the aesthetics of vintage computing (specifically, the IBM PC CGA palette) to help make sense of our postmodern era. instagram.com/my_life_computerized -- 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. twitter.com/nail7 / instagram.com/sevendxs -- Italian net.artist Nbreakfast thinks nothing of hacking a game ROM or patching in an obscenity to a breadboard to get his idea across. ngirotti.com -- Nelumbotus is a major in computer science with a minor in pixelart. No, not really, but yes. instagram.com/nelumbotus -- 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 -- 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 -- PiquANSI sporadically draws elaborate boxological mandalas in Rexpaint and it is our pleasure to periodically share them with you. @piquansi -- Pixel Art For The Heart paints landscapes in pixelart, but always adjusts the "dramatic" slider well beyond recommended settings. jonathanrawlings.com -- Lest we take our practice too seriously, Pixel_Fart is here to keep things loose and casual. instagram.com/pixel_fart -- 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 -- Publius Emeritus II is a onetime Mist member who isn't hiding that effectively. -- 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) re-appears in Mistigris as a cultivator of abstract themes in photography. instagram.com/redeyephoto -- Sassafras, our primary gateway to the FANSI world of the 8bitMUSH, makes their second appearance in a Mistigris artpack with this trademark Mistigris outsider entry from this year's ANSI art competition at the LayerOne demoparty. ansiart.com/Info/Artist/Sassafras -- Straddling the interdimensional realms of pixelart and voxelart, Brazilian game developer Scofanogd shares more of his more sedate whimsical experiments with us. instagram.com/scofanogd / scofano.com.br -- Founder of EuphoniX, Sentience has given the music a rest and is resuming his explorations into every other creative medium. -- Sure, everyone loves our social media channel, but Simon Schaffert binged all 2500 posts end to end, giving a thumbs up to choice selections on average every 15 seconds for hours. You don't see the oldschool sensibility actively manifesting in much of his own design work, but it lays hidden, waiting to strike! instagram.com/simonschaffert -- Snake PETsken fell in love with Commodore computers when he was 8... 36 years ago... and tries to keep the same wonder and passion from when he was a kid, starting to grasp the fundamentals of coding. His modern graphite portrait practice must have somehow influenced his PETSCII style, driving him to try to get the most out of every single character cell. The only software he uses is Petmate, a nice PETSCII editor. instagram.com/snakepetsken -- 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 -- Stephan "Rewind" Bellin has a practice of making pixelart portraits of characters from the silver screen at their most iconic, with aspirations to include them as characters in a game taking place in a mash-up world containing all movie settings simultaneously. Following him on social media is like getting a free master class in film studies. instagram.com/stephanrewind / twitch.com/stephanrewind -- 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 --- 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 -- dawdler and doodler. everyone is an artist nowadays. but Unseen Fate (aka Antti Minkkinen) is an ANSI artist. (that said, enjoy the painting!) finland. iconosquare.com/minkant -- upper.case: storytelling pixelartist or pixel-illustrating storyteller? Why not both? instagram.com/upper.case -- A 16-bit guy in a 64-bit world, VileR grew up when baud rates were lower and signal/noise ratios higher. A bizarre pixelling accident in the mid-'90s left him trapped in an artistic timewarp bubble somewhere on the inert fringes of the demo-/artscene. However, he was recently seen crawling out of the woodwork and into projects such as the 8088 MPH demo, and may occasionally be observed busying himself with nameless and unspeakable oldskool-related machinations. 8088mph.blogspot.com -- Webersso.n brings about a deft marriage of subject and audience, initially making hyperstylized perler bead portraits of an endless series of women before branching out into pixelated still lives with fauvist pop art colour schemes. instagram.com/webersso.n -- From Twilight, the Legion, Avenge, Fire, Fuel and through to Blocktronics, the Swede known as Zeus II is a one-man ANSI art industry. twitter.com/Zeus_II -- MISTIGRIS DISTRIBUTION SITES: telnet://bbs.inktwo.com:23 telnet://guardian.synchro.net bbs.nz 16colo.rs pc.textmod.es/crew/mistigris artpacks.org mistigris.org instagram.com/mistfunk twitter.com/mistfunk tumblr.com/mistfunk and our usual round of greetz to our colleagues at: fuel.wtf, blocktronics.org impure.nl, amish.0w.nz, galza.org, Fire Dream, Break, pungas.space, paleotronic.com, soundcloud.com/bitcouver, vanchipmusic.ca, and TABNet! 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