Mistodon: Happy #BlackHistoryMonth! Today we explore the music portfolio. This #ShiftJIS portrait of trumpeter #CliffordBrown (aka #Browny) was drawn using text characters by jazz lover Kalcha and included in the music-themed MIST0118 artpack collection released five years ago.

Mistodon: this #ShiftJIS scene by Kalchan, mashing up text art adaptations of Roger Dean's album covers for the band #Yes, was included in the music-themed MIST0119 artpack collection released 4 years ago this month.

Mistigram: I can’t speak to precisely what is going on in this Kalcha #ShiftJIS screen with any degree of certainty other than to say that it looks like trouble for Santa! This piece was included in the MIST1118 artpack collection released four years ago.

Mistodon: this #ShiftJIS image is a Kalcha adaptation of the ~1563 #LittleTowerOfBabel painting by #PieterBruegelTheElder, with the addition of a flying saucer -- one perhaps in sole possession of a universal translator? -- taking off from its central atrium. It was included in the MIST0717 artpack collection released five years ago.

@enriquericos it also seems resonant with the Asian practice of #ShiftJIS art, basically ascii art with a larger palette (a substantially larger character set to work with) - our hero of this medium is Kalcha as at https://16colo.rs/artist/kalcha

Mistodon: this #ShiftJIS adaptation of the exterior panels to #HieronymusBosch's ~1500 #GardenOfEarthlyDelights was made by Kalcha and included in the MIST1118 artpack collection released four years ago this month.

#introduction Greetings, everyone, from the Mistigris computer art collective! We started releasing artpacks in area code 604's #BBS PC underground scene in 1994, full of #ANSIart, #ASCIIart, #MODmusic, #EMags and other good stuff, extending into the early Internet (first homepage on Geocities, many hours whiled away on the IRC) but drying up and evaporating by the turn of the century in the transition from the BBS/CLI to Web/GUI paradigm.

Then we stewed in nostalgia until hosting a reunion for our 20th anniversary in 2014, which got us back on track to releasing artpacks again -- now with representation from vintage #textmode art fellow traveler forms such as #PETSCII, #ShiftJIS and #teletext!

Mostly we organize through our Discord (invite at https://discord.com/invite/9R84QUN ) but are always happy to represent wherever the creative techy folks are to be found!