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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 -- 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 she wants to avoid work, but... still has a love of art. etsy.com/uk/shop/YavinPaints / @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 -- A more focused student of the Commodore 64 aesthetic you will not find. Buzz_Clik 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 -- 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. -- 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 chiptune music. You'll just have to look him up to get the full story. docpop.org -- 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 -- 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. electronsfromacorns.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 -- Farrell_Legos prefers a broader canvas for his brick mosaics, engaging all manner of nerdy subjects against grey studded backings... hoping against hope that he doesn't, again, run out of pieces! instagram.com/farrell_legos -- 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 -- Until being accidentally invoked by a Mistigram posting, long-lost Mistigris Classic alumnus Hungry Eye (formerly reNM8r) had been entirely out of touch with us since 1995 -- but it turns out has spent all of the time since feverishly exercising the right side of his brain playing MUX RPGs and illustrating friends' characters. renm8r.blogspot.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 -- Taking inspiration from the basic medium of ASCII art, Joni "nscii" Caparas treats the characters as design elements on a black canvas, in a fashion similar to, but fundamentally different from, artscene ASCII practice. Basically, from their base in Berlin they've reinvented the artform from first principles. instagram.com/joninscii / jonicaparas.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. -- 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 -- LittleBitSpace experiments with ASCII art, now turning it into a line art medium, now dabbling with the use of negative space, superimposed for effect against high resolution backgrounds. instagram.com/littlebitspace -- 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 -- Mig_moog brings an animator's demented sensibilities to the realm of pixelart. @mig_moog -- 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 -- Nick Lakowski is a Vancouver based artist. He holds a BFA in studio art from Emily Carr University (2004) and an MFA in studio art from the University of British Columbia (2012). His work is grounded in a commitment to grassroots community projects, including experience as a teacher, muralist, volunteer, board member, curator, and events facilitator for a variety of local schools, businesses, festivals, DIY art spaces, and artist-run galleries. His current work with acrylics draws anxiously and humorously from the overly deterministic discipline of neurobiology, the world of commercial painting and paint manufacturing, various indexes and orders of colour, the redactive procedure of painting itself, and a mystical hysteria towards resuscitation and intensive care medicine. nlakowski.tumblr.com / iheartlocalart.ca/artists-2/nick-lakowski -- Nikki is a "queer woman who loves retro games, technological tat ... and arty arty crafty stuff!" She has taken up the arcane art of teletext, which we are authorized to share with you. twitter.com/gentlemannikki -- Claire "Nouscentric" Roberts is a multi-disciplinary thing-doer, using dance, fire, & voice for play in creative communities, and makes a living in the games industry as a 3D artist. braveandreal.com / claireroberts.net -- It is not understatement to describe Ozero, the artist formerly known as Onyx, as a machine. Indeed, his total conversion is well underway! Compelled to focus on a single discipline rather than being hugely prolific in three, these days he fills Amazon with his ebooks. ozero.ca / twitter.com/ozero1 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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, the 2XL crew,  @hirmuofficial, paleotronic.com, soundcloud.com/bitcouver, pHluid, vanchipmusic.ca, null e-mag, ArakNet and TABNet! 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