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He is a co-founder of the Dead Pixel Society. instagram.com/8bit_poet / thedeadpixelsociety.net -- For the past two years, Alpha King has been living up to his nickname and ripping it up in Blocktronics, lending his textmode art talent hither and yon on occasion where they are best suited. At long last, our turn came up... and then, a half-year later, we finally got around to actually sharing the art! -- AXB threw down newschool ASCII art with the best -- Remorse, ACiD and Unit -- during the underground computer artscene's silver age, starting in 1996... but since none of them are around anymore, he's been reduced to slumming with us.  iaxb.com/ascii.htm -- Axl is a Parisian artist who works in many styles but who has recently stumbledupon the Commodore 64's PETSCII aesthetic and is currently feverishly working every angle of it, machine-generated and bespoke. instagram.com/axltm -- 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 -- CLI, BBS, retro computing... yeah, that's the Booch sweet spot. He was a teenager at the height of Bulletin Board Systems in the '90s - he was late to the scene, but it's special to him. A computer hobbyist... did some oldschool 3-D modeling, .MOD music tracking, code (and lots of it), SysOp of the Realm of Serion BBS back in the early 2000s then began again in late 2018, hosted at serionbbs.com. He tends to tinker and fiddle for hours until satisfied with the result. For his gear, he makes code. -- 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 -- 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. -- Dos Grog continues in the expansion of our Italian contingent, demonstrating a playful devotion to the pixelart medium. instagram.com/dos_grog -- 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 -- 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. Hisworks are informed by his interests in '70s prog rock, jazz, and fine art. -- Not that it's a competition, but you don't get to call yourself a proper vintage technology enthusiast until you've exported images you've made on an Apple II to textile patterns printed on a Jacquard power loom. By these stringent standards, it's possible that kris10roos is in fact the only proper vintage technology enthusiast! kristenroos.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 verygood chance that the collection will have passed through his graciously-offeredweb 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 -- 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 -- Nelumbotus is a major in computer science with a minor in pixelart. No, not really, but yes. instagram.com/nelumbotus -- Thematically, whether through photo or digital manipulation, The NJHLS works by medium of hidden patterns, drawing them out through a combination of colour, shapes, texture, and symbolism. While this exploration is a common theme in all of her work, each image also serves as a maze, revealing successive layers upon further viewing. -- Games artist philllllljames has recently arrived at the textmode art aesthetic, notably the celebrated feel of Commodore's PETSCII, but also seemingly the offbeat textures of Glyph Drawing Club, through which to explore new visual territory. shinestrength.xyz -- Pixard_Neh celebrates his pop culture favorites in a self-described self- indulgent spasm of pixelart. We're just lucky enough to be sitting by on the sidelines! instagram.com/pixard_neh -- Graphic designer pz does an excellent job at emulating having been there, then, with his very convincing oldschool ASCII art logo styles, but he has many delicious flavours. skybohannon.com -- For years he's somehow ducked appearing in these infofiles despite being a walking, talking example of a glitched rogue AI, but finally we must acknowledge Qousqous in these annals. Hiya, Qous! -- 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 -- Founder of EuphoniX, Sentience has given the music a rest and is resuming his explorations into every other creative medium. -- 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 goingcontrariwise both ways makes strange magic emerge from the dullest artifacts ofthe mundane. Nice trick! instagram.com/ty.p0 / t1po.tumblr.com -- upper.case: storytelling pixelartist or pixel-illustrating storyteller? Why not both? instagram.com/upper.case -- 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 -- 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 -- MISTIGRIS DISTRIBUTION SITES: telnet://bbs.inktwo.com:23 telnet://guardian.synchro.net serionbbs.com bbs.nz 16colo.rs 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.orgimpure.nl, amish.0w.nz, galza.org, Fire Dream, Break, pungas.space, @hirmuofficial, mircart.org, paleotronic.com, soundcloud.com/bitcouver, vanchipmusic.ca, null e-mag, ArakNet and TABNet! SAUCE00MIST0619 memberlist Alpha King / Cthulu Mistigris 20190606–YOEIBM VGA