Ü ÜßÜ ÜßßßÜ ܲ±±°°ÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜßßÛ²²±±°°°ÜÜÜÜÜßßßÜÜÜÜÜ ÜÜÜÜßßßß Üßß ßßÜßßßÜÜÜßÜÜÜÜßßß ßß ÜßÛÜÜÜÜÜÜÜÛßÜ ßßßßßßÜÜÜßß ßßßßßßßßßßßßß ßßßßß ct MIST0224 contributing artists: -- 2Stoned hails from the Los Angeles area (not to be confused with the Dutch scener who goes by the same handle) and is a creative with a 40-year fascination with the demoscene. He loves all forms of retro computer art due to the challenge of pushing the perceived limitations. Most of his ANSI work is unpublished visual experiments, but occasionally he creates art for his friends in the BBS community. 2stoned.art -- Adel Faure learned in the pandemic summer of 2021 that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 / x.com/adelfaure / mastodon.art/@adelfaure -- <3S (a mouse) has recently emerged from Tokyo into the realm of severely minimalist ASCII art. (To keep them here, we may need to figure out how to draw severely minimalist ASCII cheese.) @lt3s_mouse -- 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 -- Axl is a Parisian artist who works in many styles. We highlight his work in the PLAYSCII tool. instagram.com/axltm / piaille.fr@/yenenpeuplou -- 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 idiom of the BBC Micro. twitter.com/pixelblip1 -- Notes from Underground: DosDoc makes infofile art for the Western literary canon and posts it up in public spaces to impress elites and baffle illiterate lamers. instagram.com/dosdocone -- gkmac has been rocking the teletext sixels since before the turn of the century, though due to the ephemeral nature of the medium -- you'd be hard-pressed to prove it! oldbytes.space/@gkmac -- 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 -- 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. x.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. kalcha.wixsite.com/kalchata -- Kurogao is another bleeding edge textmode 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. -- littlebitspace has developed into a passionate practitioner of ASCII art and PETSCII experiments on esoteric and calcified themes. littlebitspace.com / mas.to/@littlebitspace / @littlebitspace.bsky.social -- Mavenmob is an interesting case, informed by equal parts of the philosophy of J. Krishnamurti and his artscene youth in Blade and Echo. 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 -- 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 -- A '90s ANSI art acolyte recently finding his way back to the fold, Nitron has made up for lost time releasing solo artpacks and making guest appearances, putting up Hold Fast BBS, and is currently minting screens for BBS door games like it's going out of fashion -- 25 years too late! instagram.com/_n1tr0n -- Carl "TeletextR" Attrill, host of the Byte High No Limit podcast, represents Mistigris' continuing wave of introducing the great public textmode art tradition -- teletext -- to the underground computer artscene. teletextr.blogspot.com / @x.com/teletextr / @bytehigh.bsky.social -- War on Christmas is a college student, a beginner at textmode art, who wants to get better at it. Let us get started! -- 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 / x.com/andyuglifruit -- 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 -- 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. -- home base: mistigris.org affiliated BBSes: conchaos.synchro.net excelsiorbbs.ddn.net:2000 holdfastbbs.ca bbs.inktwo.com:23 bbs.planetcaravan.org erb.pw/the-bbs bbs.stormbbs.com web galleries: artpacks.org demozoo.org/groups/22737 chat with us at: discord.gg/9R84QUN oldbytes.space/@mistfunk or find us elsewhere on social media as "mistfunk" at: BlueSky, Cohost, Instagram, Tiktok, Tumblr, YouTube, etc. and our usual round of greetz to our colleagues at: blocktronics.org, Fire Graphics, Lazarus Blocks, impure.nl, hermanas del perro magnetico, the Legacy crew, galza.org, ArakNet, Bitcouver and TABNet! 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