_,,,,,_  ,-'` * o `'-,  ,' * o* o ', ; o ,'```', * ; { * * '.___.'* o } ; o .-._.-. * ;  ', * ( =(_)= ) o ,'  '-.'.-,',-.'.-' ( ( ) ) ldb MIST1218 artpack contributors: 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 -- Longtime social media supporter Ackport finally lends us one further gesture of PETSCII support. @ackport -- Anton Van Oosbree's credentials and qualifications for participating in an undertaking such as the commission of this computer artpack are abundant but would be pointless to elaborate upon at great length. youtube.com/user/antonvanoosbree / soundcloud.com/anton-van-oosbree -- 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 -- 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 -- Connexicon is embarking into a creative partnership with Etana, sprinkling a handful of zags among her zigs. -- 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. -- 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 -- When he's not drawing snow on to C64 game screenshots, Vinny Mainolfi is running & editing the FREEZE64 fanzine. twitter.com/freeze64 -- Glowing Fish has been holding down the dad jokes and dank memes a couple of Fools in a row, but sometimes they are simply so seasonally appropriate or otherwise of the moment that they manifest outside their sandbox. instagram.com/glowglowmemes -- 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 -- Wolf spirit Involtino draws pixelart on a 100x100 scale when not studying architecture in Genoa. instagram.com/involtinopixel -- 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. -- ldb (Laura Brown) is a rare bird, perhaps the last practitioner standing of good old UseNet-style ASCII art, with a masterful command over economy of slashes, parentheses and asterisks. asciiartist.com -- Lego_Colin uses a plethora of programs to prepare images for physical incarnation in the ultimate pixelart composition: assembled using Lego bricks. instagram.com/lego48x48 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Nelumbotus is a major in computer science with a minor in pixelart. No, not really, but yes. instagram.com/nelumbotus -- 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 -- Even though PZ (from "Expense", eventually) was only seven when Mistigris first crawled out of the primordial line noise, this time-traveling graphic designer has nonetheless somehow found his way to a place where he can dash off oldschool Amiga-style ASCII art logos like we're all 17 on the IRC and it's 1996. For him, it's not all about the nostalgia, but rather ... the a e s t h e t i c . instagram.com/youngsbo -- 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 -- 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 -- Artscene OG Smooth has long been on the Mistigris periphery, his telnet BBS iNKý on our distro site list almost since our revival, but this month this elder statesman, founder of TeklordZ (with which Mist Classic spent almost its entire lifespan attempting unsuccessfully to merge with), descends from the heavens (by which I mean his regular ANSI art gig at Fuel) to save us from yet another dopey Cthulu FILE_ID.DIZ. Hats off, sir! www.inktwo.com -- 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 -- 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 --- 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 -- Communities of text art practice emerge through certain social contexts but the basic premise is such an appealing idea that it keeps getting invented and reinvented. XTComics draws comic strips using a combination of low ASCII characters and emoji. instagram.com/xtcomics -- MISTIGRIS DISTRIBUTION SITES: www.inktwo.com 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! SAUCE00 20181215ó3P[ IBM VGA