Tonight, after 16 years of dormancy: the second monthly public Mistigris release. ARTDISK-.ZIP was a “best-of” compilation – additionally featuring 13 previously-unreleased works – designed to act as a survey study for outsiders to the artscene, demonstrating a wide spectrum of different minimalist (and filesize-thrifty) approaches to computer art… and distributed in a limited edition of 10 floppy diskettes at a groovy real-world art party back in 1999: “The Living Closet” at “The Church of Pointless Hysteria”.
Only two of the ten floppies were taken home. (A new world record for least-viewed artpack?) During a premature attempt to rebuild Mistigris – before it had quite hit rock bottom – the disk was hand-converted into a web-viewable gallery in 2001 hosted on free (and subsequently withdrawn) Australian webspace and seen by roughly nobody… so the web gallery has been folded in to this archive as well for your local browsing convenience.
Technically a 15th-anniversary re-release – if you were one of the two lucky disk-takers – for the rest of you this archive represents an opportunity to enjoy the 13 hitherto unseen works and to renew your enjoyment of the other archive contents which, rest assured, you likely haven’t perused in quite… some… time.
(Coming up next: the 20th-anniversary re-release of the long-unavailable seasonal music disk The Bells Of Yule – remastered!)
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