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Ü Û ²ß ÛÛ Û°°±°±°Û.  þ °² ²ß Û°° °ÛÜ ß°Û ß°ÛÛ ß°ÛÛ ß ÛÛ ÛÛ ß²Ý ÛÛÛß Û²²±°Û þ  °Ü þ þ Û°±±° Û°°±±°° ßÛ±°Û Û°°±Û ÜÜß ÛÜÜ Û° ß ± Û°°±° Ü  ܱ²ÛßÜ . ²±°ß ß°²° þ ß°²±Ý Û²° Û°²±°Û ²±Ü ±²° Ü ܲßßÜ ß  ²°±±²Ûß Ü Üß ÜÜÜÜÜ ÜßÛßÜ ß ß  ß²±°±² ²°±  ßß²°ßßßßßßß ß ßßß ßßßßß ²°±²²²Û ß þ  ßßß ßß contributing artists ß²±²±²ß ßßß Abstrakt took a good decade and a half off for good behavior, but it seems that underground ASCII art may be just like riding a bicycle in at least one regard. He appears in this collection courtesy of Fire. -- 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 / mastodon.art/@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 / oldbytes.space/@atonalosprey -- 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 / universeodon.com/@axb -- 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 -- Codefenix is a retrogaming and retrocomputing enthusiast, to the extent of being SysOp of ConstructiveChaos BBS and dressing it appropriately in ANSI art. conchaos.synchro.net -- discGator is holding down the text art beat in some rarefied niches of cyberspace, now including ASCII illustrations in our own artpack collections. discgator.flounder.online / twitter.com/disc6ator -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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. -- littlebitspace experiments with the expressive capacity of ASCII art and PETSCII. littlebitspace.com / mas.to/@littlebitspace -- 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 / oldbytes.space/@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 -- An old dog doing new tricks, MeaTLoTioN has made a return to the BBS scene after many years away, and this time is trying his hand at some textmode art, contributing to the UK scene with some attempts at being creative. On a normal day he enjoys red meat, vegetables, plenty of greens and a shipping ton of gravy. meatlotion.com -- Melodia doesn't need an artgroup, she is an artgroup. One more case of the parade continuing after the band stopped playing, courtesy of the bottomless music in her head she kept on keeping on -- and indeed, has never stopped. We are humbled by her continuing association with us, as to her, all we have to offer is drag factor! soundcloud.com/xennial -- 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 -- Shi-akuma is a mystery wrapped in a riddle stuffed in a gyoza wrapper. -- In February of 1995, Spawn drew an ASCII art logo celebrating us. It took us over a quarter of a century to discover it and put it to use, but to all things there is a time. -- A 16-bit guy in a 64-bit world, VileR grew up when baud rates were lower and signal/noise ratios higher. A bizarre pixelling accident in the mid-'90s left him trapped in an artistic timewarp bubble somewhere on the inert fringes of the demo-/artscene. However, he was recently seen crawling out of the woodwork and into projects such as the 8088 MPH demo, and may occasionally be observed busying himself with nameless and unspeakable oldskool-related machinations. 8088mph.blogspot.com -- 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 -- Last seen releasing ASCII art in Alphaforce (Arc) from 1998-1999, Zylone, Sysop of Planet Caravan, has recently dropped back into ANSI art practice as though through a wormhole in the space-time continuum. bbs.planetcaravan.org -- MISTIGRIS DISTRIBUTION SITES mistigris.org conchaos.synchro.net bbs.inktwo.com:23 bbs.planetcaravan.org erb.pw/the-bbs bbs.stormbbs.com excelsiorbbs.ddn.net:2000 artpacks.org demozoo.org/groups/22737 16colo.rs/group/mistigris instagram.com/mistfunk discord.gg/9R84QUN oldbytes.space/@mistfunk cohost.org/mistfunk tumblr.com/mistfunk tiktok.com/@mistfunk twitter.com/mistfunk and our usual round of greetz to our colleagues at: blocktronics.org, Lazarus, Fire, Legacy, impure.nl, hermanas del perro magnetico, galza.org, @hirmuofficial, paleotronic.com, soundcloud.com/bitcouver, vanchipmusic.ca, ArakNet and TABNet! SAUCE00MIST0223 contributing artists Zylone / Cthulu Mistigris 20230304ˆ=PóIBM VGA