Today on Mistigram, “Fairyjack” by @starstew from our recent MIST0317 artpack collection - constrained hirez like they might have drawn back in the day but never did! It would be disingenuous of me to describe every one of Ed’s pictures as the result of a patented and proprietary technique, but all the same he enjoys multiple distinct styles which are virtually all unique to his practice. http://ift.tt/2nqIHsp
Today on Mistigram, another small-scale @Polyducks creation #PETSCII style (though likely rendered in #Rexpaint.) This #textmode fantasy comic strip panel was released in our recent MIST0317 artpack collection… ..and a special greetings to the denizens of our new public Facebook group at http://ift.tt/2nDCEmV should, we hope, be in line to receive daily updates about these Mistigram postings automagically through the intervention of IFTTT. Knock on wood! http://ift.tt/2njXuUO
Today on Mistigram, “Teletext vs Wordart” by @illarterate, the rumble of the century! This one ran in our recent MIST0317 artpack collection even though I have no idea what is going on here. Teletext typography (of which this is a specimen) is a rare bird to be cherished and cultivated, and so here we are. http://ift.tt/2ogHuEY
Today on Mistigram, a painting from MIST0317 by @niklikovfska entitled South Fraser Perimeter Road Blockade, commemorating resistance circa 2011 against the Deltaport Gateway freeway construction through farmland and First Nations archeological sites and near the environmentally threatened Burns Bog site. http://ift.tt/2nenD8o
Today on Mistigram, “3motion” by @redeyephoto released in the recent MIST0317 artpack collection. Yo dawg, we heard you like typing so we kaleidoscopically superimposed a keyboard on top of your keyboard so you can type while you type! http://ift.tt/2n9siYi
Today on Mistigram, @awesomeangela13 made this Perler bead adaptation of @obeygiant designs to protest the Trump inauguration - released in the recent MIST0317 artpack collection and also used as an actual protest sign at a rally mounted on a backing with a handle. http://ift.tt/2n5I46G
Today on Mistigram, a fabulous @Polyducks piece of skilled Q*bert teletext fanart, released in the recent MIST0317 artpack collection. Using a purple letter S to represent Coily the snake was a bold stroke of minimalist genius! http://ift.tt/2nTDygq
Today on Mistigram, “Screaming Disappointments”, a painting by @dashsharon released in the recent MIST0317 artpack collection. http://ift.tt/2njXMi3
End of night group shot flashbombed by someone with a real camera! http://ift.tt/2obs5Fb
Boaconstructor lives up to his nickname and I can clearly see that base64 is back in effect on the projector! http://ift.tt/2n0pA8n
Good news, Boaconstructor was located and if you aren’t here, you should be able to tune into his closing set on Twitch! http://ift.tt/2nu7rTq
Are the rumors true? Did the Chiptographer really fly in from New York just to photodocument tonight’s chipmusic show? That’s probably not the most unlikely element of the event. http://ift.tt/2nOwRw3
Hitori Tori gives us a peek under the hood. Three instances of the software running simultaneously?! http://ift.tt/2nJX5PY
Fastbom “bom” rushes the mic (thank you, I’ll be here all night) while @bryfacetron gets the Korg cart in his Nintendo DS warmed up. http://ift.tt/2nu4diS
The visuals this time around are less “big pixels” vintage, more “mind’s eye” retro. I believe these watery reflecting rings are the handiwork of partlyhuman. Hats off! http://ift.tt/2obtnQr
Coming up next, Mistigris alumnus @bryfacetron ! http://ift.tt/2niWDqH
(See, the projection on the big screen agrees with me!) http://ift.tt/2mX3naF
On stage at the site of the old Video In, Sweden’s Fastbom is just wrapping his set at Overflow. Silent still pictures don’t really do it justice. http://ift.tt/2nJT0ew
Today on Mistigram, an impromptu @horsenburger teletext rendition of Queen’s “Bicycle Race” single cover drawn to fulfil a challenge at last month’s Block Party. Nitnatsnoc, our resident Queen zealot, has already been notified! http://ift.tt/2mU4w2A
Today on Mistigram, a patented @starstew procedural doodle from the recent MIST0317 artpack collection. You can add anything you like to the edges as long as it meets up in the middle and fits in a circle! ⭕ http://ift.tt/2nmzt3c
Today on Mistigram, we feature “Scum Labs” by our teletext ringleader @illarterate from our recent MIST0317 artpack collection. This particular piece is from the deep recesses of his back catalogue but, like Scum, floated to the surface. Just what do they research at Scum Labs? Sadly not the Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion, which takes another M at the end. Perhaps they are looking into using a particular strain of algae in conjunction with genetically engineered anaerobic bacteria to break down plastics. The important part for this woman in a STEM field is that she is wearing proper eye protection - a splash of Scum in a mucous membrane will lay you up on Worker’s Comp for six months! http://ift.tt/2nwuTQg
Our most innovative thinkers are hard at work on some truly next level work for our upcoming April artpack. http://ift.tt/2mK0ARQ
Today on Mistigram, “Three Birds One Fork”, a painting by @the_mythical_man released in the recent MIST0317 artpack collection. http://ift.tt/2ndXauF
Today on Mistigram, the painting ‘Island 2" by @niklikovfska , released in the recent MIST0317 artpack collection. http://ift.tt/2mXq1RA
Today on Mistigram, @Polyducks amazed all with this Rexxpaint video game mockup screen released in our recent MIST0317 artpack. Here a sage kobold advisor is reporting to the draconian player. http://ift.tt/2mTVELN
Today on Mistigram, a monochrome portrait by @horsenburger of Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier in Logan, as released in the recent MIST0317 artpack collection. http://ift.tt/2mWLWtK
Today on Mistigram, a photo transformation by @redeyephoto from yesterday’s MIST0317 artpack release. In this one, entitled “Escape”, four different transformations are enacted on the same subject (a garage door, I believe) for a striking series of variations. http://ift.tt/2mSy6J5
Our sixth consecutive monthly artpack release, MIST0317, is out today! You can pull up a chair to the table and enjoy a heaping helping of teletext, pixelart, paintings, photography and more at http://ift.tt/2msse6H http://ift.tt/2mNu0ls
Today on Mistigram, we wrap up our IWD series of paintings by @delphinehennelly of women and their smartphones, originally released in our MIST1116 22nd anniversary artpack collection. If this untitled piece seems vaguely familiar, go back and take a peek at yesterday’s post… it’s an earlier draft of the same composition, rendered in a different style! I know that you computer artists are used to the luxury of just being able to try out a filter then roll it back if you’re not satisfied with the end result, but Delphine has to go and actually paint it all! Fortunately, she enjoys the labour of painting. “Not so much a study but sometimes I paint the same image over again. I’m into seriality as a way to dig deeper into an image.” The particulars are shuffled here, with new details such as the jewelry and dove sandals, but the panopticon gravity here remains the crux, the weight of the world resting on the smartphone operator, surveiled closely not only by her two friends and her own device, but even by the fabric pattern on her picnic blanket. Illuminati imagery is everywhere, which is of course the whole point of Illuminati imagery: all eyez on her, and any remarks about gazes would be wholly extraneous. Thanks for watching (har har), and tomorrow we should have some special new vein of content for you! http://ift.tt/2moHcua
Today on Mistigram, “The Instagrammers” by @delphinehennelly are rounding the bend of our IWD week and this series of paintings released in our MIST1116 22nd anniversary artpack collection. The lazy, crazy salad days of summer are behind us now, and these women are all business. (well, business casual, I spot at least one bare foot.) There is important, landscape mode smartphone work to be done here, so in keeping with the Instagram terms of service, all breasts are covered up. Though the pastoral oak leaves still fill out this scene (up to and including the pattern on the subject’s leggings, because we never forget where we came from,) it is the bluish tinge of asphyxiation on her face that tells the whole story here - every other feature of this painting is depicted in loose, sketchy terms, while the one blade of grass anchoring us to some species of reality is that concerned visage, bathed in the stark blue light of harsh reality, as revealed by the glowing rectangle held in her hands. Everywhere the world is still formless and replete with potential, hazy and fantastical except where the screen’s glowing gaze falls, grounding and rendering mundane everything that it lands upon. Just look what it’s done to my Maenads! http://ift.tt/2mjppEd
Today on Mistigram, another fabulous painting by @delphinehennelly from MIST1116, celebrating International Women’s Day for a week by exhausting this suite of woman-painted women, strongarming their way into this realm of computer art courtesy of their seeming fixation with the same smartphone I use to share these daily art posts with you on Instagram. (But I’m normal and they’re fixated, right?) By the time they reach this painting (entitled “Hen of the Woods” a mushroom 🍄 described in Japan as “dancing”, with properties of immune stimulation in cases breast cancer, known to grow at the base of oak trees such as whose leaves carpet this scene), I would speculate that our lithe nubiles have overindulged in vice - by which I mean social media and streaming video. You only usually see that shade of blue staining their visages on faces confronted with blue screens of death after all-night sprees building virtual castles of sand… and on the lips of drowned sailors washed into the harbour after a ferocious storm. (Is there a message in that blue bottle at the top left?) Ironically, as they zone out into the infinite realms of the mind implied by the postage stamp-sized windows through which they explore, their ripe physicality makes a final, unnoticed, sensual bid for primacy in ecstatic contortions. When they finally look up from their phone screens, after reaching the end of the Internet or the built-in obsolescence of their particular model of iPhone, they run the risk of finding themselves immature adolescents trapped in the withered, gnarled bodies of spinster crones. (No, I’m not speaking from experience, why do you ask?) http://ift.tt/2mzC7Aa
Today on Mistigram, we continue in our IWD spree showcasing the smartphone-using paintings of @delphinehennelly as released in our MIST1116 22nd anniversary artpack.
OK, so the social media-bemused subject is not literally depicted as a woman, but rather, a rabbit. But as art is the lie that tells the truth, we must take it as given that Delphine is employing a bit of visual metaphor here. Like an idealized woman, the domesticated rabbit demonstrates qualities of softness, gentleness and fertility, decorated with a lovely ribbon accessory 🎀; you have only ever heard “bunny” as a female descriptor (hello, Playboy), and indeed I have a vivid memory of my sister’s high school math teacher being disciplined after describing a room full of his female students as “stunned bunnies”. Heck, don’t take it as given, I was able to get a few words from artist: “I do think of the bunny as a stand in for a girl. It is sort of the psyche of a girl in a particular position or self consciousness… Sort of more what it feels like when you’re being objectified a bit… Satisfied bunny, I see her as pleased as punch with herself, a little bit drunk and maybe high. The pomegranate also would imply perhaps some forbidden fruit reference…I was also thinking of Persephone.” But what is the significance (or even the topological logistics) of the contorted human hand holding the phone the bunny is using to enshrine her snack for posterity? Is that a second smartphone in the scene, a separate number the bunny reserves for important work-related calls? Come now, I can’t do all the heavy lifting for you all of the time! http://ift.tt/2mdAQ0O
Today on Mistigram we have more fearless painted ladies by @delphinehennelly who are living for themselves, letting it all hang out (literally: MIST1116 now marks the first appearance of public hair in a Mistigris artpack!) and quite simply will not be stopped. Demure? Saw that word once in a book they didn’t much care for. Responding to what they find online (which, let’s be frank, competes poorly with their living tableau) with every emotion on the spectrum, smoking cigarettes spread eagled and swiping right, they have no worries about their intimate self portraits turning up on revenge porn sites ruining their chances of future political careers.
The faded, washed-out almost watercolour colour scheme lends the whole image an overexposed demeanour - charges that could well be laid at its subjects also, but who are we to judge? When you find yourself in a situation with a smartphone and not a stitch of clothing, you may as well have fun using the phone until the charge runs down since it’s not like you’ve got anywhere to put it away, anyhow!
In conclusion, happy International Women’s Day, day 3. Really, I could run these paintings year-round. http://ift.tt/2msmVoy
Today on Mistigram, another group of women painted by @delphinehennelly , released in the MIST1116 artpack and featured here today in honor of International Women’s Day.
Less coy than the last group (this piece entitled “The Group” in turn), some of these ladies are bold enough to meet the viewer’s gaze directly, like Manet’s Olympia (ahem, her own Olympia, thank you very much) , acknowledging that between the paintbrushes and the selfie-taking smartphone, they have seized the means of image production, to serve new masters (mistresses, actually) with different priorities.
Now clothed, now nude, according to their capricious pleasure, they are living it up on their own terms without concern for the consequences of being caught by that slut-shaming male gaze. Actaeon, mind yourself! While a variety of moods are in evidence across their faces, they have consensus on this matter, and if a second opinion is called for, a whole sister contingent cavorts through sensual poses in the distant background (or is it an oak leaf-framed wallpaper, perhaps informed by these ladies’ inner thoughts), doubling down on the position (OK, on the various positions, but unified in their conclusion) and serving as a reminder that images are not the only important thing whose means of production they enjoy a monopoly over. http://ift.tt/2n3Diem
Today on Mistigram, the painting “Dance U” by @delphinehennelly in honor of #internationalwomensday ♀, released in our MIST1116 22nd anniversary artpack collection.
The presentation here is striking, soft women’s bodies in gentle pastel colours, strategically posed to minimize elements titillating to the male gaze, while the subjects are themselves preoccupied in capturing their own images for their own purposes, enshrined as painted by a woman. Paintings can’t talk, but I bet if this one could it would pass the Bechtel test.
You’ve seen a couple of Delphine’s paintings from this smartphones-and-selfies series on Mistigram before, but as there are seven more we’ve been waiting for a chance to showcase, we’ll be celebrating IWD with them for a full week! The computer artscene, to say nothing of the wider art world (and indeed, the world at large) is an intensely dudely place, stunk up with the hobbies and preoccupations of boys and men, and while Mistigris have done our best to court, cater to and champion refreshing new approaches and perspectives from our emissaries from the “other” world of women, with (by some metrics) greater female participation than in the rest of the scene cumulatively… there’s still a long way to go. http://ift.tt/2n6vxkP
Today at Pixel Pompeii, the burning beam of our textmode scholarship is pointed at ANSI art splash screens in ZZT fangames. Read all about it at http://ift.tt/2lVeIqW http://ift.tt/2mD4X55
Today on Mistigram, another kaleidoscopic texture by @daniellonglegs from the recent MIST0217 artpack collection, this one arbitrarily designated “Sugar” by myself. (I’m sure actual sugar looks nothing like it under the microscope.) http://ift.tt/2mwTJPc
Today on Mistigram, a whirling vortex of teletext in only two colours, drawn by TeletextR, a twisty and topologically challenging rendition released in our recent MIST0217 artpack collection. http://ift.tt/2mbaWf0
Today on Mistigram, “Mimic Murmuring”, painted by @niklikovfska and released in the recent MIST0217 artpack collection - a colourful image for another drab snow day. http://ift.tt/2lOAxcF
Ahem. Today on Mistigram, a @dashsharon painting, “Landscape of my Heart”, released in the recent MIST0217 artpack collection. http://ift.tt/2lIfbwJ
Today on Mistigram, a glitched-out “Leviathan” by xer0, from our recent MIST0217 artpack collection. http://ift.tt/2mTEfSa
Today on Mistigram, another recursive Mario in textile by @ranbahol7924118 from Japan, released in the recent MIST0217 artpack collection. My favorite part is his little overall buttons. http://ift.tt/2mdbJOs
Today on Mistigram, a grim sketchbook denizen from the @starstew laboratories, entitled “Detrituscadero” and released in the recent MIST0217 artpack collection. http://ift.tt/2lz21me
Today on Mistigram, a #shift_JIS portrait of #AlbertEinstein drawn by @kalchano and released in our recent MIST0217 artpack collection. http://ift.tt/2lPGZT0
Today on Mistigram, the “Wi-Fi flower” 🌸 oil painting by @the_mythical_man last seen in the MIST0217 artpack collection. http://ift.tt/2lXQ5xG
Today on Mistigram, a #teletext astronaut by @rakelmeyers promoting today, the second and final day of the teletext conference Block Party 2017 at the Centre for Computing History (@thecentreforcomputinghistory) in Cambridge, where you have a chance to meet not just Raquel but also renowned Mist teletext artists @illarterate and @horsenburger (and I gather that Carl “TeletextR” Attrill is also in attendance!) Not to take credit for something we never did, we never released this particular piece by Raquel in any artpack (only a couple of pieces of her PETSCII), this post is purely signal-boosting promotion. http://ift.tt/2lJeFjA
Today on Mistigram, a photo transformation by @redeyephoto from yesterday’s MIST0317 artpack release. In this one, entitled “Escape”, four different transformations are enacted on the same subject (a garage door, I believe) for a striking series of variations. http://ift.tt/2mSy6J5
Our sixth consecutive monthly artpack release, MIST0317, is out today! You can pull up a chair to the table and enjoy a heaping helping of teletext, pixelart, paintings, photography and more at http://ift.tt/2msse6H http://ift.tt/2mNu0ls
Today on Mistigram, we wrap up our IWD series of paintings by @delphinehennelly of women and their smartphones, originally released in our MIST1116 22nd anniversary artpack collection. If this untitled piece seems vaguely familiar, go back and take a peek at yesterday’s post… it’s an earlier draft of the same composition, rendered in a different style! I know that you computer artists are used to the luxury of just being able to try out a filter then roll it back if you’re not satisfied with the end result, but Delphine has to go and actually paint it all! Fortunately, she enjoys the labour of painting. “Not so much a study but sometimes I paint the same image over again. I’m into seriality as a way to dig deeper into an image.” The particulars are shuffled here, with new details such as the jewelry and dove sandals, but the panopticon gravity here remains the crux, the weight of the world resting on the smartphone operator, surveiled closely not only by her two friends and her own device, but even by the fabric pattern on her picnic blanket. Illuminati imagery is everywhere, which is of course the whole point of Illuminati imagery: all eyez on her, and any remarks about gazes would be wholly extraneous. Thanks for watching (har har), and tomorrow we should have some special new vein of content for you! http://ift.tt/2moHcua
Today on Mistigram, “The Instagrammers” by @delphinehennelly are rounding the bend of our IWD week and this series of paintings released in our MIST1116 22nd anniversary artpack collection. The lazy, crazy salad days of summer are behind us now, and these women are all business. (well, business casual, I spot at least one bare foot.) There is important, landscape mode smartphone work to be done here, so in keeping with the Instagram terms of service, all breasts are covered up. Though the pastoral oak leaves still fill out this scene (up to and including the pattern on the subject’s leggings, because we never forget where we came from,) it is the bluish tinge of asphyxiation on her face that tells the whole story here - every other feature of this painting is depicted in loose, sketchy terms, while the one blade of grass anchoring us to some species of reality is that concerned visage, bathed in the stark blue light of harsh reality, as revealed by the glowing rectangle held in her hands. Everywhere the world is still formless and replete with potential, hazy and fantastical except where the screen’s glowing gaze falls, grounding and rendering mundane everything that it lands upon. Just look what it’s done to my Maenads! http://ift.tt/2mjppEd
