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8bitbaba is an accomplished South Asian graphic designer with a side line in
minimalist pixel art, which he paints on screens as well as canvases.
instagram.com/8bitbaba
8bitpoet comes by his small-scale pixelart virtuosity by genuinely oldschool
means, in a former life the late 90s designing Macintosh program icons as
Doc Halpern of Mad Science Laboratories. He is a co-founder of the Dead Pixel
Society.
instagram.com/8bitpoet / thedeadpixelsociety.net
192.168.10.13 occupies a rarefied echelon of glitch production, like a tree
that drops apparently effortless scrambled fruit at peak ripeness.
1013.wtf
What could deliver a more concentrated essence of computer creativity than
making pixelart by arranging squares on a screen under high magnification?
Thats right: doing it in Microsoft Excel, using the spreadsheet cells as the
picture elements. Carl Dizon is one of a very few specialists in the use of
this outsider art tool.
instagram.com/eduardocalamar
Periodically we enounter someone who is not only a specialist in a given medium,medium, but who also focuses on a specific theme to the exclusion of all
others. Chuppixel is the worlds preeminent Tiny Towers-style pixelart movie
cast group shot specialist. This month we share with you practically their
entire oeuvre.
instagram.com/chuppixel / chuppixel.tumblr.com
Cranksy previously known as Troll has been watching from the sidelines for a
good long while, and has recently felt moved to finally rejoin the fellowship
of underground computer art with some vigour and urgency.
Arising through the GRiP/AD wing of iMPERiAL to unleash a storm upon the
artscene, Eerie was a creative phenomenon hitherto unknown in the artscene,
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 some art!
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/DavidTurgeon / twitter.com/33
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
Wolf spirit Involtino draws pixelart on a 100x100 scale when not studying
architecture in Genoa.
instagram.com/involtinopixel
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.
The Knight of Fuel is what we like to consider an OG underground computer
artist, emerging in tandem to Mistigris Classic for a run from 1995-1998 in
Belgium, only to disappear for a little longer than we did, roaring back to
life in 2017 in a fantastic profusion of ANSI art. They do amazing work that
is well worth checking out, and once in a while they very helpfully toss us a
bone 8
fuel.wtf
LegoColin uses a plethora of programs to prepare images for physical
incarnation in the ultimate pixelart composition: assembled using Lego bricks.
instagram.com/lego48x48
Manuel Vio fell in love with Commodore computers when he was 8... 36 years
ago... and tries to keep the same wonder and passion from when he was a kid,
starting to grasp the fundamentals of coding. His modern graphite portrait
practice must have somehow influenced his PETSCII style, driving him to try to
get the most out of every single character cell. The only software he uses is
Petmate, a nice PETSCII editor.
instagram.com/manuelvio
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
Nail has been known for stacking blocks for Fire and The Legion in the past,
and, since his return to the scene, is doing the very same with old friends in
Blocktronics. Deeply rooted in the 16-color world of the Commodore 64, hes
also been instrumental in bringing the Galza PETSCII art packs to the attention
of its native platforms scene.
twitter.com/nail7 / instagram.com/sevendxs
Italian net.artist Nbreakfast thinks nothing of hacking a game ROM or patching
in an obscenity to a breadboard to get his idea across.
ngirotti.com
Nelumbotus is a major in computer science with a minor in pixelart. No, not
really, but yes.
instagram.com/nelumbotus
Youll find the visual art stylings of OrdinaryPixel at the unlikely
intersection of pixel art, pop culture, and fine art, laying down colours from
a simplified palette in a conspicuously painterly fashion.
instagram.com/ordinarypixel
PiquANSI sporadically draws elaborate boxological mandalas in Rexpaint and it
is our pleasure to periodically share them with you.
@piquansi
Polyducks Ben Jones 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 / twitter.com/polyducks
Stephan Rewind Bellin has a practice of making pixelart portraits of
characters from the silver screen at their most iconic, with aspirations to
include them as characters in a game taking place in a mash-up world containing
all movie settings simultaneously. Following him on social media is like
getting a free master class in film studies.
instagram.com/stephanrewind / twitch.com/stephanrewind
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
Webersso.n brings about a deft marriage of subject and audience, initially
making hyperstylized perler bead portraits of an endless series of women before
branching out into pixelated still lives with fauvist pop art colour schemes.
instagram.com/webersso.n
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pc.textmod.es/crew/mistigris/
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instagram.com/mistfunk
twitter.com/mistfunk
tumblr.com/mistfunk
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And for your you waited through the credits easter egg -- here are the
traditional round of greetz to our colleagues at: fuel.wtf, blocktronics.org,
impure.nl, amish.0w.nz, galza.org, Fire Dream, Break, pungas.space,
paleotronic.com, soundcloud.com/bitcouver, vanchipmusic.ca, and TABNet!