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He is a co-founder of the Dead Pixel Society. instagram.com/8bit_poet / thedeadpixelsociety.net -- ab_codes' ASCII art practice emerged as a vital procrastination outlet for his renewed programming practice. After coming up with the design at the top of this infofile, he has thus far failed to revisit the outlet... meaning either he's been enjoying great focus coding or has adopted a vital procrastination outlet for his ASCII art practice. instagram.com/ab_codes -- For the past two years, Alpha King has been living up to his nickname and ripping it up in Blocktronics, lending his textmode art talents hither and yon on occasion where they are best suited. Our artpacks' FILE_ID.DIZ files fit the bill! -- You may well have seen the textmode works of Andy "ndh" Herbert in Blocktronics artpacks, but for reasons known only to his slush-loving self, he has set his sights on Mistigris as a suitable outlet in which to share some of his more curious creations. When he's not editing ANSI art, he's programming ANSI art editors -- his new Moebius application is a breath of fresh air, well worth investigating for seasoned hands and those new to the medium alike! github.com/andyherbert -- 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 -- 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 -- Bliss is another of our rotating cast of seasoned textmode artist guest-stars visiting from the alt-ANSI utopia of the 8bitMUSH at ansiart.com, handy with their screen-condensed, palette-extended variant, described as FANSI. She often is concerned with video game subjects, but her interest in fixed-width pixelart also extends into the textile realm. instagram.com/hollydollydinkleberry -- 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 -- 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 -- Periodically we encounter 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. instagram.com/chuppixel_ / chuppixel.tumblr.com -- Longtime fan, first-time caller CoaXCable of CoolPHat jumped in to contribute a little ANSI art to this month's collection. When we told him that it needed to be Hallowe'en themed, he went ahead and added a pumpkin to it. Check and mate! -- Everyone has a different road to textmode art. Docpop had to first conquer the world of the yo-yo before finding his way here, in a roundabout fashion. So if you think you have something to say about niche passions... you've got another thing coming! But I damn him with faint praise, also adept in the fields of game design and chiptun music. You'll just have to look him up to get the full story. docpop.org -- Dos Grog continues in the expansion of our Italian contingent, demonstrating a playful devotion to the pixelart medium. instagram.com/dos_grog -- 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 -- 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 -- Wolf spirit Involtino draws pixelart on a 100x100 scale when not studying architecture in Genoa. instagram.com/involtinopixel -- 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 -- 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 -- It was quite intimidating to approach Toren "MacBin" Atkinson with a misspelled Lovecraftian nickname, as he fronts the world's greatest tribute band to that particular brand of eldritch cosmic horror -- The Darkest Of The Hillside Thickets. thickets.net / torenatkinson.com / patreon.com/torenatkinson -- 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 -- 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. -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- From the world of the Amiga to the realm of Linux to death metal... Scart_Issue had his own circuitous route to the land of textmode art, but we are glad to have him in here with us. instagram.com/scart_issue -- 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 -- 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 -- Stephan "Rewind" Bellin has a practice of making pixelart portraits of characters from the silver screen at their most iconic, with aspirations to include them as characters in a game taking place in a mash-up world containing all movie settings simultaneously. Following him on social media is like getting a free master class in film studies. instagram.com/stephanrewind / twitch.com/stephanrewind -- 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 -- 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 -- upper.case: storytelling pixelartist or pixel-illustrating storyteller? Why not both? instagram.com/upper.case -- 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 -- 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 telnet://chq.phatstar.org:2023 bbs.nz 16colo.rs artpacks.org mistigris.org instagram.com/mistfunk twitter.com/mistfunk discord.gg/jY3jg4j 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,  pHluid, vanchipmusic.ca, null e-mag, ArakNet and TABNet! SAUCE00MIST1019 memberlist Cthulu and ab_codes Mistigris 20191013{SPðIBM VGA