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MIST0525 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is unpublished visual experiments, but occasionally he creates art for his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.bsky.social / tiktok.com/@2stonedart
AtonalOspreys 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
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.
pixelblip.bsky.social
Codefenix is a retrogaming and retrocomputing enthusiast, to the extent of
being SysOp of ConstructiveChaos BBS and dressing it appropriately in ANSI
art.
codefenix.bsky.social / @codefenix@techhub.social
An absolute newcomer to the scene lurking in the shadows of the great ANSI
lords, only time will tell if ConsoleJockey is up to taking a place on ANSI
Olympus someday.
consolejockey.bsky.social
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
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 / x.com/disc6ator
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, theyve 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 / thegreenherring.itch.io
chitter.xyz/@TheGreenHerring / bsky.app/profile/thegreenherring.neocities.org
Esoteric text art designer Hortau uses custom XBIN character sets to redefine
the possibilities of small-scale textmode art.
instagram.com/hortau / aquirin.com
As a young BBSer, Josh Kirkman Renaud always envied those ANSI artists.
20 years later he finally managed to sneak something into an artpack. Josh
blogs about retrocomputing, BBS door games, and other fun stuff at
breakintochat.com/blog
@kirkman.bsky.social / digipres.club/@kirkman
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
Because DurDraw was the only program that installed successfully and
painlessly under Linux on the first try upon Googling ANSI editors,
MC Fresher makes Unicode text art.
You wont see any of Mavriks creative work in our recent archives, but
theres 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 Mists KiTSCHNet
echomail network from its home at Daemons Gate BBS.
daemonsgate.com
Nick Lakowski is a Vancouver-based artist. He holds a BFA in studio art from
Emily Carr University 2004 and an MFA in studio art from the University of
British Columbia 2012. His work is grounded in a commitment to grassroots
community projects, including experience as a teacher, muralist, volunteer,
board member, curator, and events facilitator for a variety of local schools,
businesses, festivals, DIY art spaces, and artist-run galleries. His current
work with acrylics draws anxiously and humorously from the overly
deterministic discipline of neurobiology, the world of commercial painting and
paint manufacturing, various indexes and orders of colour, the redactive
procedure of painting itself, and a mystical hysteria towards resuscitation
and intensive care medicine.
nlakowski.tumblr.com / iheartlocalart.ca/artists-2/nick-lakowski
instagram.com/niklkovfska
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 its going out of fashion -- 25 years too late!
instagram.com/n1tr0n
Claire Nouscentric Groulx is a multi-disciplinary thing-doer, using dance,
fire, voice for play in creative communities, and makes a living in the
games industry as a 3D artist.
madamegarou.ca / nouscentric.com
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 / @bytehigh.bsky.social
a jack of all trades, master of some, mixing cutting edge tech with old
school aesthetics at times... you can find y4my4m surfing BBSes via ZealOS
running on hardware.
github.com/y4my4my4m / x.com/y4my4my4m
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!
zeusii.bsky.social
home base:
mistigris.org
affiliated BBSes:
conchaos.synchro.net
holdfastbbs.ca
excelsiorbbs.ddn.net:2000
dsbbs.ca
bbs.inktwo.com:23
bbs.planetcaravan.org
erb.pw/the-bbs
spacejunkbbs.com
bbs.stormbbs.com
web galleries:
16colo.rs/group/mistigris
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, chipshit, Null e-mag, ArakNet, Bitcouver, TABNet ...
... and now PizzaToe, too!