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A minor but popular aspect of Adam Matlocks musical practice as An
Historic involves exploring new and original accordion arrangements of songs
sourced from the wider canon of popular music, especially from pop culture
sources such as movies, television shows and video games. We have featured his
recordings of tunes from mid-90s Square console games, because while its
always a fun trick to adapt and convert real-life art to digital forms, its
exponentially more delightful to reverse that workflow and burden a human of
finite capabilities with tasks designed to be executed flawlessly by a square
of silicon.
anhistoricaccordion.tumblr.com / anhistoricmusic.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
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
Claire Roberts 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. You can find her latest work in Blueprint Realitys
recent tactile VR puzzle game Awaken.
braveandreal.com / claireroberts.net
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.
facebook.com/artbycookieheart / instagram.com/cookieheart
A man of the world, Dubaiwalla has recently decided to begin paying
closer attention to the endless buffet served up to his eyes and take up
photography.
instagram.com/dubaiwalla / hooloovoo.aminus3.com
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?
@illarterate / teletextart.tumblr.com
danfarrimond.co.uk / portfolio.illarterate.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.
pinterest.com/kalcha55/ascii-art
Dropping art on Mistigris when our orbits came into conjunction, the
vanguard of our antipodean contingent Maeve Wolf has pulled off an
extraordinary second act, and has continued making art ever since those salad
days went in the compost.
dashsharon.tumblr.com / dashsharon.instagram.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/empressplay / @empressplay
The man, the myth... Mythical Man handily satisfies both categories.
Long known for his prowess on the euphonium, painting is a recent development
to which he has applied himself ardently.
mythical-man.deviantart.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
TABNets last bastard standing, Otnoo Ishphoos delightfully
polymorphically perverse brain expresses its endless creativity in endless
forms.
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
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.
postimg.org/gallery/265xil9j4/
Spear last appeared in a Mistigris artpack as a guest in May of 1998, and
the fragmentary FILEID.DIZ he drew for us circa then finally found use here.
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
Carlos TeletextR Attrill represents Mistigris continuing wave of
introducing the other great 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.tumblr.com / etsy.com/ca/shop/TheresaMO
theresamo.deviantart.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 recent Feb 2017 Block Party in Cambridge.
davehingley.deviantart.com
Even especially? with innocuous subjects, the glitch aesthetic --
which xer0 demonstrates handily -- has no option but 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
mistigris.org
instagram.com/mistfunk
twitter.com/mistfunk
mistfunk.tumblr.com