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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 -- 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 -- 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 (and occasional household felines), 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, minting a small army of hunky action figures. 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 -- 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, letting his festive freak flag fly. -- 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 -- 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 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 -- Facts about Hunderpanzer: 2 kids. Only 1 wife. Went from full-blown game addict in 2019 to full-time game developer in 2020. Crazy about '80s (Cars), Magic: The Gathering (Cards), and rock climbing (Crags). twitter.com/bloodsugargames -- 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. -- 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. -- 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 -- Mavenmob is an interesting case, informed by equal parts of the philosophy of J. Krishnamurti and his artscene youth in Blade and Echo. His most recent undertaking is a game called "The Word Is Not The Thing". (Our lit division may need to beg to differ.) mavenmob.com / instagram.com/mavenmob -- 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 -- Minediru is a purveyor of simple pixelart works on typically nerdy themes, sometimes cleverly mashed up, always satisfying. instagram.com/minediru -- 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 -- Part of a peculiar current of untapped anxious ANSI art energy charging new talents on the periphery of the digital underground, this time around Odd got zapped with the voltage. @TheOddFireCat -- Ozunaga is just getting warmed up... put on your welder's goggles and 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 -- 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 -- Publius Emeritus II is a onetime Mist Classic member who isn't hiding that effectively. -- Retroshark has good taste in friends, recently joining Polyducks and Rhoq in making the Jabberwock Game Boy ROM for a jam. twitter.com/retrostark -- Rhoq is not only a creator but a veritable scholar of pixelart. twitter.com/rhoq7 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- From Twilight, the Legion, Avenge, Fire, Fuel and through to Blocktronics, the Swede known as Zeus II is a one-man ANSI art industry. Also, a hell of a cook! twitter.com/Zeus_II  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, @hirmuofficial, paleotronic.com, soundcloud.com/bitcouver, pHluid, vanchipmusic.ca, null e-mag, ArakNet and TABNet! SAUCE00MIST0220 list of contributors Publius Emeritus II Mistigris 20191231ÆTPxIBM VGA