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How to contact them? Shoot a message into cyberspace and cross your fingers! -- Darkman Almighty administers the USS Excelsior BBS, and picked up a little ANSI art along the way so as to better skin his Starbase in cyberspace most appropriately. excelsiorbbs.ddns.net:2000 -- The Green Herring is a special guest whose story begins in the world of ZZT, where their game "Cyber Purge" became known as a classic within months after its release. They then found Moebius and gradually crossed over into the wider realm of ANSI art. Since then, they've sent artwork to demoparties around the world, unwavering from their dedication to the underserved realm of furry art. They hope you enjoy their work and look forward to delivering their first proper artpacks sometime in the future! thegreenherring.neocities.org / chitter.xyz/@TheGreenHerring thegreenherring.bsky.social / thegreenherring.itch.io -- A genuine professional teletext illustrator two decades hence, Steve "Horsenburger" Horsley has 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 semigraphics 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? x.com/illarterate / teletextart.tumblr.com / portfolio.illarterate.co.uk bsky.app/profile/illarterate.bsky.social / @illarterate@bitbang.social danfarrimond.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 -- 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 / x.com/kurogao961 -- 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, PETSCII and teletext 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 -- Moth aka Midnight is a dabbler with ANSI and ASCII art, pixelart and NES / Game Boy / Sega Saturn programming. They have an amateur radio license, enjoy bugs and think that Zampanio is a very fun game. -- Amy, Jackey and Momo are all manifestations of Pizzatoe, a fellow traveller ANSI art collective of close friends staggered across an intercontinental area. This crew is reinventing ANSI art from first principles, and their results are at once reassuringly familiar and shockingly outsider! Pay attention to them, because they are taking ANSI art to places it definitely has never been before! twitter.com/0xpizzatoe -- Sansho Eel has recently crossed the line from practicing typollage to going full-bore into ASCII art. "I want to create ASCII art that evokes a sense of poetry." instagram.com/sansho.eel / x.com/sansho_eel -- The War On Christmas is a college student, a beginner at textmode art, who wants to get better at it. Let us get started! lospec.com/thewaronchristmas -- 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! x.com/Zeus_II -- home base: mistigris.org affiliated BBSes: excelsiorbbs.ddn.net:2000 conchaos.synchro.net holdfastbbs.ca bbs.inktwo.com:23 bbs.planetcaravan.org erb.pw/the-bbs bbs.stormbbs.com web galleries: artpacks.org ascii.mozz.us/textmode/tags/group/mistigris 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, Instagram, Tiktok, Tumblr, YouTube, etc. and our usual round of greetz to our colleagues at: blocktronics.org, Fire Graphics, lazarusblocks.com, impure.nl, hermanas del perro magnetico, the Legacy crew, galza.org, ArakNet, Bitcouver, TABNet ... and now PizzaToe, too! SAUCE00MIST1024 list of contributors Cthulu Mistigris 20241028±2PáIBM VGA