Mistigris computer arts

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

It’s The Matrix!

A tiny figure climbs to the top of a curly beanstalk, where a castle is visible on a nearby cloud.

Mistigram: this fabulous coloured #ASCIIart / #ANSIart vignette from the fairy tale #JackAndTheBeanstalk was drawn by @ascii.mozz.us and included in the MIST-30 30th anniversary artpack collection released slightly over a year ago. (Another beanstalk scene was included in IMBIBE01!)

A giant ghostly head is tossed back in despair, eyes overwritten by giant colourful lotus blossoms, above and behind a nighttime cityscape on either side of an empty road running ahead into the horizon.

Mistigram: this distinctive #ANSIart/#ASCIIart scene of a screaming lotus-eyed face looming above a cyber boxdrawn cityscape, "Amongst Mechanically Organic Lines", was made by Mavenmob and included in the MIST-30 30th anniversary artpack collection released slightly over a year ago.

A 1.44 MB 3.5-inch floppy disk labeled "memories" stands against the sunset.

Mistigram: this micro #ANSIart screen of a removable piece of storage media containing critical data was drawn by MC Fresher and included in our MIST-30 30th anniversary artpack collection released a bit over a year ago.

against a blue blob, lowercase red letters spell out eb with the numerals 9 and 7 in green.

Mistigram: this #ANSIart logo represents the work of two artists, Neophyte and 'ds' (Dead Soul?) What was eb? No idea but let's say EB Games! It was included in the Mistigris World Tour stop with Fistful of Steel in the FOS-0197 artpack collection released 29 years ago this month.

Measure-a-Mac New Hampshire Snow Tracker 2026 #weather #storm #snow YouTube video by Retro Tech or Die

Nobody, and I mean nobody, is tracking the New England snow like I am. We should be seeing a few more inches today. #WeatherAlert #snow

www.youtube.com/live/hUyRYm4...

Squiggly code in the Rivulet language

Off to Paris for the Software Heritage exhibition www.unesco.org/en/articles/... at UNESCO.

Here's a short program in Rivulet, one of the featured languages

tall, thin purple ascii art letters, top obscured behind two parallel horizontal bars, spell the acronym ascii

Mistigram: this newschool #ASCIIart logo was drawn by Plastic to be shown to applicants hoping to release similar work with us. This piece was released in our Mistigris World Tour stop with Fistful of Steel in the FOS-0197 artpack collection released 29 years ago this month.

The Drakan games around the turn of the century offered a fun take on this territory.

This is just like that one time I did mushrooms and went to a community centre in Kyoto.

There was SSI's Dragonstrike, but you said "good".

my last braincell:

Attention everyone in the North East!

Did you know a Vintage Computer Festival is happening this coming weekend outside of Montreal?

Go experience some vintage tech love at one of these events. It's a real blast!

vcfed.org/vcf-montreal/

The hottest DOS game sound card test 🥵

📺: System Shock, Looking Glass Studios, 1994

Greyscale letters behind the distorting outline of a wave, looking vaguely like plain drinking vessels partly empty or filled, spell out the word "Juice". Around them, a colourful dotted line surrounds the word from the left and right and up top, merges with the dot in the i.

Mistigram: Platinum drew this (freshly-squeezed) #ANSIart logo in promotion of Wishbringer's BBS "Juice". It was included in the Mistigris World Tour stop with Fistful of Steel in the FOS-0197 artpack collection released 29 years ago this month.

shaded red ASCII art letters against a strip of white backdrop spell out the word oneliners.

Mistigram: this newschool #ASCIIart logo for the Oneliners door at Juice BBS was drawn by The Iconoclast and included with the Mistigris World Tour stop with Fistful of Steel in the FOS-0197 artpack collection released 29 years ago this month.

Faintly glowing green capital letters radiate in the darkness their flared initialism: F F G

Mistigram: this very green #ANSIart logo in promotion of Splatt's BBS "Fall From Grace" was drawn as a joint effort between Neophyte and "ps" in our Mistigris World Tour stop with Fistful of Steel in the FOS-0197 artpack collection released 29 years ago this month.

A small round red face peers up over the edge of a large bubbly red ASCII art logo spelling out the letters OMLETTE in a very stylized way.

Mistigram: this somewhat abstract rosy newschool #ASCIIart promo for the second issue of Quip's "Omlette" e-mag (electronic magazine) was drawn by plaZtik and included with our Mistigris World Tour stop with Fistful of Steel in the FOS-0197 artpack collection released 29 years ago this month.

Hollywood has ignored tank control actor movement for too long!

The word Legion is written out in all caps, the top half purple and the bottom half green. Behind it is a divided grey field, like river pebbles, light above and dark below. All of that is framed by an outline white on top and dark blue beneath.

Mistigram: this colourful 'stained glass over cobblestones' #ANSIart logo for brothers Kestrel and Wetworks' Legion of Knights BBS was drawn by Cereal Killer and included in our FOS-0197 Mistigris World Tour stop with Fistful of Steel 29 years ago this month!

Game Poems #1 An online literary magazine publishing short-form videogames directly in a playable format. Issue #1 features interactive works by international artists and game designers.

I'm excited to share that Game Poems Issue 1 is now live at www.gamepoems.com/issue01

A new online literary magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames by publishing new games directly in a playable format.

Thanks for playing and sharing!

Contained within the big S are little p o o and f letters.

Mistigram: this monochrome newschool #ASCIIart logo, a single large S for Spoof also containing within its body all the other letters, was drawn by Dead Soul and included with our Mistigris World Tour stop with Dark Illustrated 29 years ago in the DARK0597 artpack collection.

Two curvy bold capital letters, S and L, pose front and centre against a backdrop of abstract pattern fields.

Mistigram: This monochrome newschool #ASCIIart logo for the Savage Lands (SL) BBS was drawn by Bifteq and included in the M-9803 artpack collection released 28 years ago.

Crinkly letters read ACR against a periodically multicoloured backdrop

Mistigram: From late 1996-early 1997, the Acrylic Newsletter delivered news about underground computer art scene affairs, weekly. This logo for it was drawn by Neophyte and released as part of our Mistigris World Tour stop with Fistful of Steel in the FOS-0197 artpack collection.

... and familiarly eerie!

The fancy boot is @crowkeep.bsky.social , and the photo was very likely taken by @athenacreative.substack.com

... #asemicwriting and imaginary semigraphics character sets inscribed by Mist weirdos with #sidewalkchalk on cobblestones at the Word on the Street festival at the central branch of the Vancouver Public Library, probably circa 1997.

A fancy black boot authoritatively demarks the edge of a field of public square cobblestones emblazoned with a series of yellow and/or pink chalked nonsense glyphs and doodles.

Mistigram: only ever seen in the "best of Mistigris" floppy diskette digest distributed at a #LivingCloset variety show July 23, 1999 at the Church of Pointless Hysteria, here's an example of the impulsive "real-world art" practice that wound up exploding from Mistigris into #Hallucigenia in '98 ...

A man poses with his hands extended as if in surprise, his face obscured by an abstract card shape like a white cardboard box turned inside-out

Mistigram: at the end of 2018, we released a bonus collection of artist self-portraits. At that time Tim Ereneta practiced regular #MaskMonday selfies so there were a lot of them available for us to share. This is one creative take from MIST1318 involving some folded card.