It gives us great pleasure (and enormous relief) to announce that MIST1116, the Mistigris computer artpack collection for which we’d been gathering submissions since the end of April, is finally out following a series of delays.
With a strong current of pieces dealing with themes of technology, transhumanism and cyberspace, there’s also plenty to enjoy to suit camps old and new alike – several varieties of textmode artwork, including typewriter masterpieces and an unstoppable parade of teletext, plus the “real-life” art forms historically absent, including drawing, painting, photography and collage. (Still no dance! We’ve got to have something to strive toward, I guess.)
And keeping us relevant despite our celebrating the occasion of our 22nd anniversary, the kids will enjoy an unsettling SnapChat face-swap and an canonical literary work transliterated into emoji.
(Also, at least three accordions. They’re made to fit in there thematically somehow, but huh – go figure!)
If you’d like to download the entire collection in one 185-meg go for local enjoyment, please point your web browser to bit.ly/MIST1116 ; if on the other hand you’d like to wander through a garden of thumbnails via a web gallery, textmod.es is hosting (most of) it at bit.ly/MIST1116gallery
Further catchup from the “all-time Mistigris classics” gallery currently being served up at our new Instagram account, this is a work of RIPscrip vector art from guest artist Prisonernumberone, who briefly passed through Mistigris en route from the original Fire to ACiD. It appeared in MIST0895 and adapts a panel from Alan Moore and David Lloyd’s V For Vendetta (long before Anonymous was a germ in anyone’s eye… for that matter, originally (1988) published before quite a number of them would even have been born!)
The slogan was a lovely, if somewhat vague, sentiment.
“Remember, remember, the fifth of November…”
http://pc.textmod.es/pack/galza-22/us-masks.ans
The chain runs, somewhat tenuously I suppose, from Guy Fawkes through Alan Moore’s comic V for Vendetta to its later film adaptation and from there to use of the masks by members of Anonymous, first seen in these parts protesting outside the Church of Scientology.
Then one further link, my old Belgian friend Filip De Haes illustrating some current-events subjects in his uncoloured textmode computer art style circa February 2014. Hearkening to my traditional role as poet of the computer art scene, he asked for some words with which to frame the illustrations, so during silent 2 am coffee breaks in the basement of the sleeping Lion’s Gate Hospital, I free-associated some lines vaguely engaging the themes the pictures evoked.
There is more of our collaboration at http://pc.textmod.es/pack/galza-22 , and he has a fascinating new collection together of Soviet characters rendered in Commodore 64 PETSCII, viewable at http://pc.textmod.es/pack/galza-23
