.-. | ( ( , -+- '-` \ , \ , |_ _|_ \ )) \__Y \/___, /___\ )) .-#-----. ,--''--. / | :| \ .---'-'---. .--#---------. ___ /_________\ .' /\ /\ '. | | /___________\ /_[Candy Shop]_\ /___\ |[] _ []| ; \/\/\/\/ ; | :| | A /^\ A | |+--.--+ .-. | ...|"#"|.| |*| |.,._'.\____/.'___/ _.\-,..| |"| |...|+--'--+ |*| |... MIST1021 contributors: Adel Faure learned in the pandemic summer of 2021 that they were not creating text art in a vacuum, as they had thought, but that there was a community of colleagues to work with and learn from. Everything since then has been a feverish frenzy of creation and getting up to speed. adelfaure.net / adelfaure.itch.io / twitter.com/adelfaure -- Atonalosprey's credentials and qualifications for participating in an undertaking such as the commission of a computer artpack are so increasingly abundant -- now moreso than ever! -- that it would be pointless to elaborate upon at any further length. youtube.com/user/antonvanoosbree / instagram.com/atonalosprey --  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 --  PETSCII doesn't even rate a mention on bnjmnbrgmn's portfolio, but however small a part it is of his overall design practice, he has an indisputable knack for making C=64 characters sing. benjaminbergman.wordpress.com / instagram.com/bnjmnbrgmn -- 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 -- Dwimmer began with an interest in fractals and programming art and in a roundabout fashion found their way to the demoscene and textmode arts, including ANSI, ASCII and PETSCII. instagram.com/dwimmer.tm -- It's almost as if Frida Katarina of Starz slipped through a time hole, the ease with which she started minting PETSCII screens in 2021 as though it was the summer of 1986 and they were in their proper context. --  Grymmjack celebrated us in the 20th century and was baffled on the occasion of our revival, but in the fullness of time he has come back around to his initial response, jumping with both feet into manifesting our intention as a crossroad for computer creativity. twitter.com/grymmjack --  Godfather is the System Operator of the Underground BBS, and has taken the opportunity of revisiting the bulletin board realm to finally indulge a turn-of-the-century interest in the creation of ANSI art. www.theunderground.us:10023 --  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 --  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 textmode 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 --  Lobo started messing about in the DS homebrew 'scene' back in 2006 doing game graphics, branching out into ANSI art, pixelart, and further game development with collaborators. The SHMUP based on the art of Salvador Dali has shipped but... there's still so much to do! :D spitoufs.com / twitter.com/spitoufs -- Mavenmob is an interesting case, informed by equal parts of the philosophy of J. Krishnamurti and his artscene youth in Blade and Echo. One of his recent undertakings is a game called "The Word Is Not The Thing" (about which our lit division may beg to differ), and work continues on its follow-up, titled "The Creation of the Self." mavenmob.com / instagram.com/mavenmob --  You won't see any of Mavrik's creative work in our recent archives, 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 --  Mr. Polyducks, Esquire, 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 -- Slam master, Bully survivor, boylesque titan, Legend of Bonefish alumnus: Duncan "skonenblades" Shields can safely be described as living the dream. @bigtallduncan / 365tomorrows.com/duncan-shields -- 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 --  "[vermileonhart has] been into tech since I was a little kid, I've been fiddling with computers all my life but my heart has always yearned for the arts and any means of creative expression... sadly, I've never been good at it, or couldn't find any medium that felt fulfilling. But one particular night it came to me... ASCII art. I remembered my dad and I playing in his old DOS computer, writing shit into terminals and getting drawings made with text. And it was like an epiphany: I could make art that was in my tech realm, and it would pay homage to those old days when I was a kid and everything was alright. So I became obsessed with it... I started looking for anything related to ASCII art, found out about BBSs, art packs... all of that. And that got me here." @vermileonhart -- From Twilight, the Legion, Avenge, Fire, Fuel and through to Blocktronics, the Swede known as Zeus II is a one-man ANSI art industry. 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