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MIST-30 contributing artists:
AdeptApril Monoceros runs Storm BBS and, for its calendar door, drew a
different ANSI to be displayed daily celebrating famous and obscure holidays
all throughout the year.
april.tech / bbs.stormbbs.com
A Flamingo Cups evocative pixelart work isnt a style, but a mood. They
have retired that handle and the pixelart aesthetic generally, but continue
their line of dark illustration as ky-rar.
deviantart.com/ky-rar / ky-rar.tumblr.com
3S a mouse emerged from the wilds of Tokyo into the realm of severely
constrained ASCII art. To keep them here, we may need to figure out how to
draw severely constrained ASCII cheese.
@lt3smouse
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
AXB threw down newschool ASCII art with the best -- Remorse, ACiD and Unit --
during the underground computer artscenes silver age, starting in 1996...
but since none of them are around anymore, hes been reduced to slumming with
us.
iaxb.com/ascii.htm / universeodon.com/@axb
This artpack features another ASCII art screen by Chris D. Wil formerly
psykoholik, psykoz on efnet irc and area code 713 BBSes, formerly releasing
with RCA and sporadically with true, remorse, serial, etc.
facebook.com/psyzygymusic
CoaXCable of CoolPHat is always happy to throw in a handful of blocks on short
notice, specialising in demoparty participation.
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. How to contact them? Shoot a message into cyberspace and
cross your fingers!
A poet of extremes who can mean love when he says death and death when he
says love, our beloved ragman Crowkeeper has voluntarily toiled beneath
minimalist constraints so severe that microblogging word limits are as nothing
to him.
x.com/crowkeep / mastodon.online/@crowkeep / crowkeep.bsky.social
Born into an IBM household, Darokin has long lurked on the periphery of the
demoscene. Making hundreds of creative coding .GIFs in Processing proved a
gateway to taking the leap from pixelart to textmode art over the last decade,
getting lots of practice employing ASCII art stylez in designing gig posters.
@darokin / darokin.tumblr.com
Deluks had the ASCII art bug in his ear and nowhere to work it out save
Neovim, so he exorcised it the best way he knew how.
x.com/0xDeLuks / deluks2006.github.io
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
Arising through the GRiP/AD wing of iMPERiAL to unleash a storm upon the
artscene, Eerie was a creative phenomenon hitherto unknown, mastering then
discarding styles like a kind of digital Picasso, building and abandoning
institutions like the Undergrown review e-mag, the artgroup Spastic, and the
No Type music label, joining then quitting prestigious groups by the bushel --
forcing them to bend their own rules ACiD allowed no dual-groupers unless
youre Eerie! to accommodate his stormy creative genius. From his homebase
in area code 418s BBS Sarcastic Toaster, his involvement was critical in
getting Mistigris first WHQ, The Screaming Tomato, up and running, as well as
fixing us up with an entire satellite wing in Quebec in the lead-up to our
initial release, an arrangement that would continue yielding dividends through
Mist Classics entire 4-year run. All that, plus he submitted a modest
quantity of art!
mastodon.top/@dt / fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/DavidTurgeon
Writer, acrylic painter and digital artist, Etana has kept her fingers in
numerous creative pies since the dusk of the artscene with such avenues as
Hallucigenia, Keyframe - the Animation Resource and Tilted Windmills.
athenacooper.ca / x.com/athenacooper / deviantart.com/athenacreative
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
The demoscene credientials of Goto80 go back just prior to the establishment
of Mistigris, but in the meantime they proved highly influential in the Mist
revival aesthetic by curating the text graphics gallery at text-mode.org
goto80.com
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 / chitter.xyz/@TheGreenHerring
thegreenherring.bsky.social / thegreenherring.itch.io
Thanatos aka Grim Reaper wound up as the Mist Classic VGA department head
due to his persistence and dedication -- and early arrival in the department!
instagram.com/robb.boswell
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
crossroads for computer creativity.
youtube.com/grymmjack / x.com/grymmjack / @grymmjack@mas.to
Esoteric text art designer Hortau lay in wait for a whole year to drop his
recent solo collection on the unsuspecting artscene, and he graces us with
one additional scene for our anniversary.
instagram.com/hortau
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 thats 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
IndyJoenz is the author of DurDraw, a modern Unicode / ANSI art editor.
cmang.org
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 theyve reinvented the artform from
first principles.
instagram.com/joninscii / jonicaparas.com
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 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
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.
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 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
Melodia doesnt 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
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.
Software developer mozz is an aspiring creator and ASCII art archivist,
notably in the style as practiced in 90s usenet groups such as alt.ascii-art.
Hes a relative newcomer to the art scene, having discovered it through
working with gopher and adjacent small-internet projects, and has since
developed a deep appreciation for the medium. His website hosts a personal
gallery along with an extensive archive of ASCII art collections, tutorials,
and other historical resources.
mozz.us
Andy Ne7 Lemon has been going hard in the demoscene for decades now, with a
three-pronged focus on music, textmode art and game development for more
vintage machines than you can shake a stick of RAM at.
x.com/lemon / ne77en.bandcamp.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
Hailing from Belgium, Otium Man is the sole proprietor of the fabulous Galza
artpacks concern.
galza.org/artists/otium / @otiumgalza
It is not understatement to describe Ozero, the artist formerly known as Onyx,
as a machine. Indeed, his total conversion is well underway! Compelled to
focus on a single discipline rather than being hugely prolific in three, he
has recently pivoted from ebooks to painting.
ozero.ca / x.com/ozero1
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 / 0xpizzatoe.bsky.social
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 / x.com/polyducks
Robert Evans is an oil painter based out of Mill Valley, California, who early
in his art career painted illustrations to adorn the boxes of video games.
The most famous of them is likely Trilobytes the 7th Guest.
evansgallery.net
Founder of EuphoniX, Sentience gave the music a rest for a good long while
and resumed his explorations into every other creative medium. As of 2024,
his love/hate relationship with music is thawing once again.
instagram.com/dyscotopia
Onetime Mist Classic VGA department head Silent Knight was the chief architect
of the Dream Factory comic book.
Andy the60ftatomicman Garber is a software developer who built their own
ASCII animation suite.
github.com/the60ftatomicman / mastodon.social/@AndyGarber
A deft hand at bespoke works of short fiction, Skrubly was a highly improbable
Blender champion, winning with his quick thinking a higher readership than
likely any other writer in the artscene for his substantial pieces.
sonic.net/derf/
Ed Starstew Stastny is that rare synthesis suggested in the two-word
phrase computer artist, practicing a species of net.art at SITO
continually since even prior to the establishment of Mistigris. Having
mastered and subsequently discarded so many styles and approaches,
wearing the masks of a half-dozen faux handles he could easily masquerade
as an entire artgroup. Or has he in fact been doing this... all along?
instagram.com/starstew / starstew.tumblr.com
Teleko was around the artscene for so little time during his last circuit, we
hardly had the chance to do more than gasp in amazement and ask Who was that
masked man?
Venom had some casual but fondly-remembered interactions with the underground
ANSI artscene circa 1995-7 and never gave the matter a second thought until
being exposed to some specimens of ANSI art while recently pivoting from X to
BlueSky and now... suddenly, 1997 is back in session!
venomtheblackone.bsky.social
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
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
Communities of text art practice emerge through certain social contexts but
the basic premise is such an appealing idea that it keeps getting invented
and reinvented. XTComics draws comic strips using a combination of low
ASCII characters and emoji.
instagram.com/xtcomics
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/ZeusII
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:
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, ArakNet, Bitcouver, TABNet ... and now PizzaToe, too!
lda