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The visual artist Nick "Seriatum" Williams works in other styles, but in monochrome pixelart he f l i e s . instagram.com/1bitwonder -- 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 -- 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 -- 8bit_poet comes by his small-scale pixelart virtuosity by genuinely oldschool means, in a former life (the late '90s) designing Macintosh program icons as Doc Halpern of Mad Science Laboratories. He is a co-founder of the Dead Pixel Society. instagram.com/8bit_poet / thedeadpixelsociety.net -- I can think of no other pixel artist whose oeuvre is so concerned with the interplay of shadows and light in darkened environments. A Flamingo Cup's work isn't a style, but a mood. instagram.com/aflamingocup -- General Mike's visual vanguard of the Army of 2600, Atari Stash House, experiments endlessly with rastered sprites, yielding results that are always fascinating and oddly familiar. instagram.com/atari_stash_house -- 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 -- There are weird colours that sometimes yield each other when mixed in different proportions. Banzo9420 arrived at ANSI art by way of graffiti with a hint of demoscene. instagram.com/banzo9420 -- 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 -- Billy Stoughton II finally makes good on an aspiration we've held since Mistigris revived five years ago, of abusing Minecraft as a pixel art medium, as demonstrated on contemporary Mistigris and Mist Classic textmode art compositions on massive landscape art scales. The included works were prepared using ClassiCube. -- 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 -- 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 -- CoaXCable of CoolPHat is getting a little more comfortable with lending us guest appearances, putting his own twist on an art template we explored this month. -- 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. Starting with a remastering of the turn-of-the-century theARTS podcast, he began minting episodes of the Sample Central podcast for the ArakNet radio stream, quickly throwing his weight behind the renewal of ACiD's pHluid music division and discovering a hitherto unknown knack for ANSI art with the likes of Sauna. -- 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 -- 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 -- A man of the world, Dubaiwalla has decided to pay closer attention to the endless buffet served up to his eyes and take up photography. We highlight the more mathematically-intriguing architectural side of his portfolio. instagram.com/dubaiwalla / hooloovoo.aminus3.com -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 in their pixelart practice. Here, take a look. twitter.com/cdsnatcher -- To conclusively answer the question of just who is Filth and why you should care that he appeared for the first time as a guest in this art pack, I could send you down a rabbit hole on 16colo.rs, but you might well not come back. The man has been exploring, for decades, ANSI art's threshold for minimal and maximal levels of detail, and cultivating a studied sensitivity to the precise particulars of the styles of all of his peers. Historically, he was known as the mouth of Gutter e-mag, one of the core and canonical texts of the underground computer artscene. -- 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 -- An oldschool figure in BBS artscene circles, j33p33 has long since forgotten how well he can draw ANSI, distracted by endless meditations spiralling into hip-hop loops. -- 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. -- 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 -- Lawnjart was there, then, but doesn't have time for all you cyberspace punks. Because time is short, he has no choice but to get in, make his art, and move on. -- Part of a feral tribe of uncontacted textmode artists at the 8bitMUSH at ANSIART.COM, LDA emerges from a family pixel art concern to grace us with the imagery of his people. -- 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 -- Always torn between celebrating both old ways and new practitioners of them, we salute MaDDoG, making a guest appearance with us for the first time. Well met! -- West Coast IRC fellow traveller from our very earliest days, Mattmatthew's guest art has represented Mistigris for over a decade on Wikipedia. He played an instrumental role in our 20th anniversary reunion and subsequent revival and renewal over social media, and we are beyond pleased to once again share his work with you. -- 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 -- 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/xennial -- Considering that he started in Apathy over two decades ago, Misfit has since stepped up his pace to become perhaps the hardest-working man in the artscene, acting as its official spokesperson at the helm of the 16 Colors ANSI of the Day, when he's not cooking up hot blocks for Blocktronics artpacks or moonlighting with AMiSH! Somewhere in that busy schedule, he made time to square away a swell guest piece for us... and now, a year and a half or so later, we're all ready to release it! deviantart.com/m1sfit -- 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 -- 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 -- A holdout celebrant of a fellow traveller extinguished textmode art community, The New Hotness demonstrates the pinacle of ASCII art as formerly practiced in the curious forum of GameFAQs. thenewhotness.info -- 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 -- 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.com / twitter.com/pinguino -- PiquANSI sporadically draws elaborate boxological mandalas in Rexpaint and it is our pleasure to periodically share them with you. @piquansi -- 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. instagram.com/quipansi -- Roy/SAC is legendary on the periphery of the underground computer art scene, and notorious within it, for his free and loose ways of commemorating its traditions and purveying its aesthetic to wider audiences minus a certain context. He has undertaken the formidable feat of turning fragmentary alphabets enjoyed in ANSI art logos into complete TheDraw TDF font sets, all without the involvement or consent of the original artists whose styles are being bitten. A couple of font sets were derived from an advertisement by our own Mavrik, so we are biting back and including the font sets in this release. Enjoy! roysac.com -- Silent Knight was the chief architect of the Dream Factory comic book, yet his panels for it never ran in its pages. In commemoration of the profound unlikeliness of the fulfilment of its pledge "to be continued", we reprint them as they originally appeared in a 1998 Hallucigenia artpack. -- Duncan Shields (aka skonenblades) -- slam master, Bully survivor, boylesque titan, Legend of Bonefish alumnus: he can safely be described as living the dream. @bigtallduncan / 365tomorrows.com/duncan-shields/ -- Artscene OG Smooth has long been on the Mistigris periphery, his telnet BBS iNKý on our distro site list almost since our revival, but this month this elder statesman, founder of TeklordZ (with which Mist Classic spent almost its entire lifespan attempting unsuccessfully to merge with), descends from the heavens (by which I mean his regular ANSI and ASCII art gigs at Fuel and Impure) to save us -- yet again -- from yet another dopey Cthulu FILE_ID.DIZ. Hats off, sir! www.inktwo.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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Warpus was long a familiar name around the underground computer art scene of the '90s, making himself known in such crews as Lazarus, Function, Glue, and Septic... but to Mistigris fans he will always go down primarily as the longest-standing administrator and judge of the long-running Blender IRC compo series. -- 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. instagram.com/wolffdowntheworld -- 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 -- Yaimel L¢pez is a Cuban illustrator, recently relocated to Vancouver. His work has appeared in all sorts of galleries and magazines, but Mist hosted his first appearance in an artpack. (This is now his second.) twitter.com/yaimel1983 / yaimel.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. zxnet.co.uk 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/9R84QUN tumblr.com/mistfunk and our usual round of greetz to our colleagues at: blocktronics.org, Legacy, impure.nl, amish.0w.nz, galza.org, Fire Dream, Break, pungas.space, @hirmuofficial, paleotronic.com, soundcloud.com/bitcouver, pHluid,  vanchipmusic.ca, null e-mag, ArakNet and TABNet! (But MIRCart can go suck it!!!) SAUCE00MIST1119 memberlist Cthulu and j33p33 Mistigris 20191013zÈPTIBM VGA