Friday, March 28, 2025
MIST1116/DIANE_SMITHERS-AIRPLANE
Mistigram: Photographer @DianeSmithers never really understood what we were up to with artpacks (not the only one, I'm sure), framing our project as a species of 'visual art database' (well, she wasn't wrong!), but when I put out a call for submissions to my extensive community of colleagues from decades organizing real-world art events, she didn't let that bafflement stop her from throwing her hat in the ring and sharing some of her art photos with our online audiences. Her involvement with us doesn't rate even a footnote in her CV of incredible arts photography, but as everyone in Vancouver's live music and dance performance communities is taking a moment to process her sudden and unexpected departure, we also must acknowledge our brief time spent working with her. This photograph was included in the MIST1116 artpack collection released nine years ago.
Saturday, December 3, 2016
Instagram photo by Cthulu • Dec 3, 2016 at 6:40pm UTC
As art imitates life, no contrived glitch can be as compelling as a genuine hardware error resulting from the inadvertent contact between a fragile monitor and a hard object. Garlic Joy made this expensive discovery and immediately we knew we had a cyberspace readymade on our hands perfect for MIST1116. Where pictures of the contents of a monitor might conventionally be described as “screen shots”, these were branded “screen shards”.
Instagram photo by Cthulu • Dec 3, 2016 at 6:40pm UTC
Saturday, September 24, 2016
Today on Mistigram, a cartoonish mad scientist from the desk of Quip, who drew this ANSI art not-a-Mist-promo (actually it advertises the BBS Geeksta’s Paradise, but the logo at the bottom got cut off). It was first released in January of 1998, but later saw thematic re-use in the photo announcement (99 weeks ago!) of our 2014 revival, along with: the unique Mistigris coffee mug Etana made me for a turn-of-the-century birthday party, the volume of Poetry Comics, the physical-ANSI-art Duplo, and the USB floppy disc drive containing a copy of the limited-edition 10th-anniversary TABdisks from way back in 2003.