june 2017 m i s t i g r i s
Memberlistigris:
Allan Macinnis is more of a critic than an artist, which means that he has
cultivated artistic sensibilities and, consequently, knows art when he sees it.
This month, he saw some.
alienatedinvancouver.blogspot.com
Awesome Angela of Sleepy Stitch does in real life what many of us do
virtually: arranging mosaics of coloured picture elements into more than the
sum of their parts. An avowed nerdy narcoleptic, her cottage industry helps
to defray the cost of medical treatment not covered by insurance. In Her Own
Words: I got my bachelors of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art
Institute... during which I got diagnosed with cancer My health is a
constant battle both physically and emotionally, but creating art is the only
thing that keeps me calm and allows me to escape into it away from the
realities that suck. I think she just said a mouthful, folks!
instagram.com/awesomeangela13 / facebook.com/sleepystitch
As a victory lap following his winning the 2017 Blender compo and consequently
very prominently in the Fuel revival artpack, the artist known as Burps ah,
artists, always taking themselves so seriously! ducked in to grace us with a
much-needed and much-appreciated! FILEID.DIZ for the ages, which we have
re-used to decorate these infofiles also. Thanks, Burps!
Mistigris is a few months older than Cookieheart, but classic themes possess
an eternal appeal to this Colombian artist, who works in both sketchbook and
pixelart idioms. We plunder her back catalogue this month for celebrations
of Spring, which is just about in full effect in Canada -- just as Autumn is
setting in on her side of the Equator!
facebook.com/artbycookieheart / instagram.com/cookieheart
Ironically, despite being initially brought on board to round out our April
Fools collection, our Polish member Creonix has been earnestly and
relentlessly representing Mistigris with great sincerity at continental
demoparties, winning prizes and counting a great many polys along the way.
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 Twitters word limit is as nothing to
him. In 2015 Mistigris digitally reprinted his 1999 collection Scarecrow
Poetics, but he is even more active writing today.
twitter.com/crowkeep
A longtime late-night local fellow traveller through underground radio,
electronic music, postmodernism and e-mail lists his the legendary Shrumtribe
-- hows that for your millennial zeitgeist?, its perhaps surprising that
our paths didnt formally cross with FugitivePhilo sooner, but there you have
it... cyberspace can sometimes be a surprisingly large temporary autonomous
zone, unsurprisingly filled with an abundance of distractions and dead ends.
@fugitivephilo / csun.academia.edu/tobiascvanVeen
A genuine professional teletext illustrator two decades hence, Steve
Horsenburger Horsley has recently returned to the game for love of the art:
Its kind of frustrating to discover you are good at something only to
realise its pointless in todays 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 dont delay to get your
own piece of textmode art history!
horsenburger.com
Dan Illarterate Farrimond 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?
teletextart.tumblr.com / danfarrimond.co.uk / portfolio.illarterate.co.uk
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 ma/onster! It is such a simple
3-bit medium there quite simply isnt 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.
twitter.com/jellicajake / instagram.com/jellica / kittenrock.co.uk
Arts Program Coordinator chez lEcole Canadienne Bilingue de Paris, painter
Jordan Lyric is not the first person to appear in a Mistigris artpack after
one of their siblings did, but in his case the delay has probably been the
most pronounced.
patreon.com/user?u4842173
Kazunari Kalcha Naito represents the tip of an iceberg we know little of and
understand still less of -- Japans ShiftJIS parallel textmode art scene. His
works are informed by his interests in 70s prog rock, jazz, and fine art.
Robert LordNikon Doerfler makes a guest appearance in a medium that isnt his
ordinary extraordinary sideline -- adding typewriter art to his list of
mediums mastered, appearing just below oldschool ASCII art, hes taking a
page from Mistigris artpacks and trying his hand at teletext. When in Rome...
typewriter-art.de / bloerp.de / lordnkon.tumblr.com / facebook.com/lordnkon
You wont see any of Mavriks creative work in this archive, 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
Maze is perhaps best known for facilitating access to the computer art of
others through his best-of-show web gallery at textmod.es, but as demonstrated
here, he also makes some of his own! The style and presumably means of
production are a bit non-standard, meaning that this is most definitely the
right place for it!
maze.io
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/empressplay
A veritable patron of the arts, Morgan Lee, longtime Mistigris textile
consultant, graciously allowed us to release another needlepoint project this
time around.
instagram.com/morganleemcpherson
Mr. Biffo is most likely the most famous individual to have appeared in a
Mistigris artpack, being known by an entire generation of UK youth from the
decade-long run of his Teletext video games magazine Digitizer. Turns out that
he, also, couldnt escape the siren lure of his onetime medium and has somehow
also been tricked out of teletext retirement for at least one final engagement.
twitter.com/mrbiffo / digitiser2000.com
The man, the myth... Mythical Man handily satisfies both categories. Long
known for his prowess on the euphonium, visual art is a relatively recent
development to which he has applied himself ardently.
euphoniousmyth.tumblr.com / instagram.com/themythicalman
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
An Amiga .MOD-tracker hero formerly of EuphoniX, having worked his way
through more than a few game development studios in the meantime Redeye at
one time aka Marauder appears in Mistigris as a cultivator of abstract
themes in photography.
instagram.com/redeyephoto
Until being accidentally invoked by a recent Mistigram posting, long-lost
Mistigris Classic alumnus reNM8r Reanimator has been entirely out of touch
with us since 1995 -- but it turns out has spent all of the time since
feverishly exercising the right side of his brain playing MUX RPGs and
illustrating friends characters.
renm8r.blogspot.com
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
Carl TeletextR Attrill represents Mistigris continuing wave of
introducing the great public textmode art tradition -- teletext -- to the
underground computer artscene.
teletextr.blogspot.com / twitter.com/thatotherCarl
Every time I include her in an artpack, I find myself completely rewriting
Theresa Oborns bio, as though I might somehow hew closer to the truth, like
a darts player hoping to hit a bullseye. She draws and sculpts, and perhaps
the work speaks for itself.
theresaoborn.com
First exposed to Teletex back in the late 80s spending 2 years making
teletex style pages with ViewData as part of school IT reading the
adventures of Turner the Worm and Baboozle on Channel 4 teletex,
currently TitaniumDave works in the games industry -- though his interest in
Teletex was re-ignited by the sadly-missed Feb 2017 Block Party in Cambridge.
davehingley.deviantart.com
dawdler and doodler. everyone is an artist nowadays. but Unseen Fate Antti
Minkkinen is also an ANSI artist. finland.
iconosquare.com/minkant
Even especially? with innocuous subjects, the glitch aesthetic -- which xer0
demonstrates handily -- has no option but to provide an unsettling, vaguely
sinister lens through which to view. When hes not cooking up twitchy
weirdness for Mist, this longtime underground scenester, a programmer and Unix
enthusiast, can be found making appearances with Blocktronics and Impure.
xero.nu / 0w.nz / twitter.com/fontvirus / x-ero.tumblr.com
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