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Most often seen in the vicinity of Impure and PVM these days, this month this artist demonstrates VJ glitch acumen in the service of the newly socially-distanced Flashparty demoparty! -- 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 -- 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. 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. -- 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_ -- 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 -- neck and neck with 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 chiptune music. You'll just have to look him up to get the full story. docpop.org -- 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_Lego 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 -- God Among Lice's artwork is at least as accessible as his nickname, if not necessarily moreso. Starting with representative art in the RIPscrip vector format, he has spent a couple of decades wandering down the abstracting garden path of generative art -- but always informed by excellent, if invisible, theory. instagram.com/generative_phil -- 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 -- 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. -- 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 -- The idea was so great it was inevitable that it would spontaneously emerge in different contexts: Kurogao is another visionary straddling the related but very different worlds of ASCII art and emoji typography, blending both into single-panel vignettes. instagram.com/kurogao96 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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__ -- Mig_moog brings an animator's demented sensibilities to the realm of pixelart. @mig_moog -- Mr. Biffo is most likely the most famous individual to have appeared in a Mistigris artpack, being known by an entire generation of UK youth from the decade-long run of his Teletext video games magazine Digitizer. Turns out that he, also, couldn't escape the siren lure of his onetime medium and has somehow also been tricked out of teletext retirement... between installments of his eerie Found Footage video series! twitter.com/mrbiffo / digitiser2000.com -- 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 -- Just Another Geek from Costa Rica, N1njaF1reman (just who put out that fire anyway?) got into ANSI art by accident after finding out (through a line of work living in the terminal) that the BBS scene still lives, enjoying the good challenge of ANSI's restricted color count and low resolution.ÿ Larger subjects may lie ahead! instagram.com/n1njaf1reman -- Ozunaga is just getting warmed up... put on your welder's goggles and stand back! instagram.com/ozunaga -- Indie game developer Papercookies is this month's Textmode Friends special guest star. papercookies.itch.io -- 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 -- Pixel Art For The Heart paints landscapes in pixelart, but always adjusts the "dramatic" slider well beyond recommended settings. jonathanrawlings.com -- 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 -- Sassafras, our primary gateway to the FANSI world of the 8bitMUSH, makes another sporadic appearance from the wilder reaches of textmode art. ansiart.com/Info/Artist/Sassafras -- 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 -- 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 -- 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, and this month they are the exception to prove the rule. instagram.com/xtcomics -- Zen is no stranger to textmode art, with an extensive portfolio of work minted in the MIRCart side of the scene. mircart.org/?tag=zen -- 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, the 2XL crew,  @hirmuofficial, paleotronic.com, soundcloud.com/bitcouver, pHluid, vanchipmusic.ca, null e-mag, ArakNet and TABNet! 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