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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 -- 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 -- Axl is a Parisian artist who works in many styles but who has recently stumbled upon the Commodore 64's PETSCII aesthetic and is currently feverishly working every angle of it, machine-generated and bespoke. instagram.com/axltm -- Dos Grog continues in the expansion of our Italian contingent, demonstrating a playful devotion to the pixelart medium. instagram.com/dos_grog -- The bio of the misleadingly-named Fractallearning, who works nearly exclusively in kaleidoscopic abstractions, reads that they primarily engage themes of "flowers and other natural things". This is only true in a Georgia O'Keefe context. Perhaps no force out there in the world is more strange than human sexuality, and through their distortions of sexually-charged images, the strangeness crawls out of the well. instagram.com/fractallearning -- 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 -- 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. -- The Knight of Fuel is what we like to consider an OG underground computer artist, emerging in tandem to Mistigris Classic for a run from 1995-1998 in Belgium, only to disappear for a little longer than we did, roaring back to life in 2017 in a fantastic profusion of ANSI art. They do amazing work that is well worth checking out, and once in a while they very helpfully toss us a bone 8) fuel.wtf -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. ivomitrainbows.co / twitter.com/pinguino -- Many diamonds in the rough cut their faces in Mistigris before dazzling the masses, but for advancement in all metrics through everything he tried his hand at, none wanted it as badly as Quip, who in a disciplined fashion forged himself into a self-made man of the scene, then found he didn't need it to continue being who he wanted to be. -- Formerly known as Silver Angel, Tillie continues to live and write in the 604 area. She's been published in Salacious Magazine, and was featured in the Dirty Queer Anthology. Balancing being a queer, polyamourous feral leatherwoman and handling donations at a church/homeless shelter, Tillie can be found at @echnoidsymmetry on Twitter and on the book of face. -- 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 -- 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 -- 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: telnet://bbs.inktwo.com:23 telnet://guardian.synchro.net bbs.nz 16colo.rs/tags/pack/mistigris pc.textmod.es/crew/mistigris artpacks.org mistigris.org instagram.com/mistfunk twitter.com/mistfunk facebook.com/mistigrisart 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! SAUCE00MIST0219 list of contributors Cthulu Mistigris 20190209X#PîIBM VGA