Mistigram: fittingly, after somehow surviving the first day following Boris Johnson’s #Brexit deadline, here’s a #teletext portrait of #NigelFarage of the UKIP party, treading water in front of a sinking ship. Though the Brexit ship still hasn’t finished sinking three years along, this screen by @horsenburger is symptomatic of some sea changes in how we did business at Mistigris. First: while we hit on teletext art as a fellow traveler vintage computer graphics tradition the previous year courtesy of his colleague Illarterate, it took on a larger role than mere variety spice starting here in the MIST1016 artpack collection three years ago. Notably, we had access to several people making art in the medium, and some of them - notably Steve Horsley himself - were rather prolific in their art production. Up to this point, post reunion, we’d spent all year long assembling an annual artpack that would come out around Hallowe'en, resulting in an art cake with spooky icing. Here we took the leap, asserting that we would give all the scary stuff its own spotlight in October (the inclusion of right-wing UK politicians was a little joke on my part) and that there would be more art - not next year, but next month! And we’ve been running monthly ever since. Yikes! Monthly artpack releases were a lofty artscene ideal we’d never managed to uphold in the ‘90s, but knock on wood it’s been three years now and we haven’t looked back. https://ift.tt/2qaM9xE
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