Mistigram: Surely it behooves us to come up with something on today’s occasion of UNESCO’s World Poetry Day. Not every underground computer artgroup can boast of having included poetry among its supported artforms, but for much of the classic ‘90s period Mist was choking on it – indeed its presence was likely what we were best known for, tarring us with an unspoken “ANSI artists, turn away” stigma that remains with us largely unchanged even today. But if not for the involvement of a poet the group would never have been founded, run or revived, so… eschewing it was never an option for us. (Strangely, the years took care of that for us; I blame the great interface shift, whereby the artists are still arting and the musicians are still musicking, but the writers are now tapping and swiping.) There were many great pieces to choose from, all intensely of their era, but I settled on this doggerel selection from March of 1995 (MIST0395) by Livewire, better known for his absurd prose and short stories, as hitting a celebratory note, invoking a period cyberspace theme (specifically DJ James Joyce’s BBS Al’s House of Meats) and really hitting the meta-ness with a satisfying oomph. http://ift.tt/2GeEcxR
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