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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 -- Antriksh Bali composes for the sweet spot between the orchestral and the avant- garde, writing music for film, art installations, video games... and this artpack! antrikshbali.com -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Wolf spirit Involtino draws pixelart on a 100x100 scale when not studying architecture in Genoa. instagram.com/involtinopixel -- 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. -- 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 -- LambdaCalculus - longtime fan, first-time contributor -- shares some stylized photographs, angling to marry a modern aesthetic with a vintage colour palette. twitter.com/lambdacalculus -- 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 -- Max Mouse, mysterious denizen of our home area code of 604, has found his way -- once again -- back to BBSes and ANSI art after another 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- upper.case: storytelling pixelartist or pixel-illustrating storyteller? Why not both? instagram.com/upper.case -- 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 -- MISTIGRIS DISTRIBUTION SITES: telnet://bbs.inktwo.com:23 telnet://guardian.synchro.net bbs.nz pc.textmod.es/crew/mistigris/ ________/ artpacks.org _______/\ ______/\ \ mistigris.org _____/\ \ \ instagram.com/mistfunk ____/\ \ \ \ twitter.com/mistfunk ___/\ \ \ \ \ tumblr.com/mistfunk __/\ \ \ \ \ \ _/\ \ \ \ \ \ \ For everyone who just can't get enough of the web! /\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \/-/-/-/-/-/-/-/-----------------------------------.--------------------------- _\/ / / / / / / | __\/ / / / / / \(|)/ ___\/ / / / / --(")-- ____\/ / / / /`\ ldb _____\/ / / ______\/ / _______\/ \ SAUCE00MIST0818 memberlist nail, cthulu and ldbMistigris 20161104š8P]IBM VGA