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He is a co-founder of the Dead Pixel Society. instagram.com/8bit_poet / thedeadpixelsociety.net -- 8 bit baba 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 -- AXB threw down newschool ASCII art with the best -- Remorse, ACiD and Unit -- during the underground computer artscene's silver age, starting in 1996... but since none of them are around anymore, he's been reduced to slumming with us. iaxb.com/ascii.htm -- 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 -- 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 is getting a little more comfortable with lending us guest appearances, letting his festive freak flag fly. -- 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_lego -- While she would never say so herself, Hayn9 might well be the strongest surprise ANSI art rookie of 2020. You can judge for yourself when the Legacy Krew unleashes the full force of her portfolio upon the scene, but in the meantime a sneak preview taste is offered via a guest appearance here. instagram.com/hayn9 -- 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 -- Jackie Bats is always thinking about art, when she is not actually making it... usually with her own two hands in some traditional physical medium, but with good healthy interest and curiosity about how the computer art sausage is made. instagram.com/figmentsandfae -- Jamie Graham has a typewriter with a red ink ribbon, and he's not afraid to prove it. instagram.com/jamie_graham93 -- 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 -- 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 -- A keen eye may recognize Mavrik's handiwork in the copying & pasting of this memberlist, the most effort he has put into anything Mist-related since offering to provide the web hosting for mistigris.org, 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- You'll find the visual art stylings of Ordinary_Pixel at the unlikely intersection of pixel art, pop culture, and fine art, laying down colours from a simplified palette in a conspicuously painterly fashion. instagram.com/ordinary_pixel -- Ozunaga is just getting warmed up... put on your welder's goggles and stand back! instagram.com/ozunaga -- 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. This month she is trying to draw a cat every day, and we are trying to help her succeed in this goal. ivomitrainbows.com / twitter.com/pinguino -- 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 -- If you comb through the sum of accomplished pixelartist Possum_Trash's social media accounts, you will learn a lot about them, but still be at a total loss for words when called upon to boil them down to a few glib sentences. In a nutshell, this marsupial is large, it contains multitudes. instagram.com/possum_trash -- A holdout celebrant of a fellow traveller extinguished textmode art community, Rapid99 demonstrates the pinacle of ASCII art as formerly practiced in the curious forum of GameFAQs. thenewhotness.info -- 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 -- First exposed to Teletex back in the late '80s spending 2 years making teletex style pages with ViewData as part of school IT (& reading the adventures of Turner the Worm and Bamboozle on Channel 4 teletext), currently TitaniumDave works in the games industry -- though his interest in Teletex was re-ignirted by the (sadly-missed) Feb 2017 Block Party in Cambridge. davehingley.deviantart.com -- Warpus was long a familiar name around the underground computer art scene of the '90s, making himself known in such crews as Function, Glue, Septic, and especially the now-revived Lazarus... 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. -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 16colo.rs/tags/pack/mistigris 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, Lazarus, Legacy Krew, Sauna, 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! Post-credits reveal: we'll be running a second Blender compo for 2020 the weekend of Oct 24-25. Stay tuned for further details or just start squatting #blender on the EFNet IRC!SAUCE00MIST0920 List of Contributors Odd, Cthulu Mistigris 20200921ØEPfIBM VGA