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He is a co-founder of the Dead Pixel Society. instagram.com/8bit_poet / thedeadpixelsociety.net -- 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 -- Agent-037 is a tech enthusiast by day, and tech support by night. He's o+sysop of Central HeadQuarters BBS & an ANSI artist who enjoys retro tech, the NES and many other things. If you wish to find him, don't look to far, you can reach him day or night @ telnet://chq.phatstar.org:2023. Agent-037 creeps off into the darkness.. -- A minor but popular aspect of Adam Matlock's musical practice as An Historic involves exploring new and original accordion arrangements of songs sourced from the wider canon of popular music, especially from pop culture sources such as movies, television shows and video games. anhistoricaccordion.tumblr.com / anhistoricmusic.blogspot.com -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 more focused student of the Commodore 64 aesthetic you will not find. Cal Skuthorpe made a splash invading Twitter with @PETSCIIbots, but that is only the first stage of his nefarious scheme for world domination. twitter.com/buzz_clik / petscii.tumblr.com -- A few years following the release of the final Mist Classic artpack collection, c00k13_m0n5t3r was born. The generational gap might well be nigh insurmountable, had we not the mutual love of quality pixelart. It's timeless! instagram.com/c00k13_m0n5t3r_ -- C0unt WAVnstein is an audio engineer and retro computer enthusaist who grew up with the Commodore range of computers, starting with the PET. He loves combining old school and modern technologies in creative endeavours. instagram.com/rokku_ongakuka -- Deadguy shares with us a few takes on modern video games, as filtered through vintage video gaming platforms. instagram.com/itsdeadguy -- You don't get to see all aspects of an artist's creative practice manifest in a computer artpack; you probably won't get a chance to see Emma_Doble's work in ceramics in these pages, but if you settle for her pixelart, it's a well worthwhile consolation prize. instagram.com/pixel_emme -- Writer, acrylic painter and digital artist, Etana has kept her fingers in numerous creative pies since the dusk of the artscene with such avenues as Hallucigenia, Keyframe - the Animation Resource and (currently) Tilted Windmills. athenacooper.ca / twitter.com/athenacooper -- Eve draws a lot of hard-edged angular subjects like mecha and buildings their pixelart practice. Here, take a look. twitter.com/cdsnatcher -- 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 -- Illarterate 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 -- 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 -- Dr. Jim Gerrie understands that while we have witnessed a huge amount of technological progress in the field of home computing over the past three or four decades, he feels that something important has been lost along the way. Consequently, his focus lingers on the type-in BASIC era, specifically as practiced on Radio Shack's TRS-80 MC-10, to which he feverishly ports programs that never had any business being there in the first place. jimgerrie.blogspot.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 -- The box artist of many of your favorite childhood video games, Marc Ericksen debuts one more obscurity to drive the collectors wild: a long-overdue repair to his original, erroneous MegaMan 2 box artwork design, fixed on the occasion of the 1998 edition of the Portland Retro Gaming Exhibition. retrogameart.com / marcericksen.com -- 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__ -- An old dog doing new tricks, MeaTLoTioN has made a return to the BBS scene after many years away, and this time is trying his hand at some textmode art, contributing to the UK scene with some attempts at being creative. On a normal day he enjoys red meat, vegetables, plenty of greens and a shipping ton of gravy. meatlotion.com -- Mentalpop is a Toronto-basic pixelartist who works in collaboration with indie game development teams and streams their creation sessions for Patreon supporters. mentalpop.ca -- While watching his old man (MeaTLoTioN) trying to make some patterns on the screen in textmode, MiCRoFuSioN decided he wanted to try his hand and see what he could come up with. Still finding his feet and style, he's full of enthusiasm and spirit. -- Mike Levens is Unicode -- a DJ, producer, and electronic musician misaligning bit boundaries, breaking syntax, and parlaying mistakes into music since, oh hell, let's say the mid-nineties. (Who ever puts a firm date on their artisthood?) He plays lots of styles of music and is inspired by number theory, retrofuturism, and nice terse three-item lists. soundcloud.com/unicode / facebook.com/djunicode -- 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 -- 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 -- Nikki and Bunty are, in their words, "two queer women who love retro games, technological tat ... and arty crafty stuff!" Given their peerless pedigree, it's more or less inevitable they would find their way into the teletext revival... at least one of them has taken up their arcane art, which we are authorized to share with you. nikkiandbunty.com -- You'll find the visual art stylings of Ordinary_Pixel at the unlikely intersection of pixel art, pop culture, and fine art, laying down colours from a simplified palette in a conspicuously painterly fashion. instagram.com/ordinary_pixel -- Ozunaga is just getting warmed up, but this may be the only portion of his pixelart practice that can be observed at this distance without welder's goggles. Stand back! instagram.com/ozunaga -- 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 -- There are many roads to textmode artwork; IRC channels are as legitimately valid an avenue as any. Emerging from the MIRCart realm into the world of artpacks, Picrotoxin brings a fresh perspective to a classic medium. instagram.com/picrotoxin -- 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 -- Sassafras, our primary gateway to the FANSI world of the 8bitMUSH, makes another appearance in a Mistigris artpack via the realm of Final Fantasy, whose bestiary he, for a time, attempted to engage in ANSI art. 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. instagram.com/dyscotopia -- 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, and you can see his PETSCII handiwork in releases by The Solution. @snakepetsken -- Carl "TeletextR" Attrill represents Mistigris' continuing wave of introducing the great public textmode art tradition -- teletext -- to the underground computer artscene. teletextr.blogspot.com / @carlos_teletextr -- The Elk is a character who we have crossed paths with several times under several different guises, but he is difficult to put your finger on for long. acornelectrontoday.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 -- Aurelien "Wasabim" Vaillant is a French retrogamer of the Atari ST variety who pays homage to and celebrates his beloved nostalgia by mashing up classic box and sprite art with stock photography and computer FX. If you like what he brings to the games room, please do note that he is available for projects. wasabim.com / twitter.com/wasabimgames -- Whazzit's history with Mistigris dates back to our 1994 inception, and though our paths diverged before long, when talk of our 2014 revival came up he was right there on the front lines with the impossible -- a seemingly endless font of fresh ideas of new applications for a positively archaic artform. instagram.com/whazzit_b7 -- Xennial 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/xennial -- Supposing that your interest in retro technology leads you down a hip path less travelled, and you wind up restoring vintage mechanical typewriters... how else are you to know that the machine is in complete working order unless you take the opportunity to demonstrate a little typewriter art? Wolffdowntheworld is a reasonable man and this is a reasonable conclusion. -- 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 telnet://chq.phatstar.org:2023 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.org impure.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, Sample Central, pHluid and TABNet! SAUCE00MIST0919 memberlist Cthulu Mistigris 20190916^tPðIBM VGA