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New ASCII for PC!

Jun 26, 2023 |

I’ve released a new ASCII-thing in Impure 85! This time I’ve tried to work with code page 437, popular on the IBM PC. It has different characters than the Amiga, such as the useful block gradients: ▓ ▒ ░. The font is designed differently, so for example the / and \ don’t connect to each other. Boooo! I think I wrote a bit about the differences in this paper.

Anyway, this has been added to my MEGA ASCII PAGE where you can go and scroll into the abyss!

Two Thousand Eight Hundred Twenty-One Days Part 1

Oct 1, 2022 |

Two Thousand Eight Hundred Twenty-One Days Part 1 is a video work by Björn Bengtsson with a soundtrack by me. It’s now showing in Tokyo as part of the Sumida EXPO 2022.

“The work is a 40-minute-trance-inducing-high-speed-slideshow/video with a dark, lush soundscape by Goto80, installed in an empty nagaya (old wooden Shōwa period house) in the Kyojima neighborhood.”

> Exhibition period: October 1 – 24
> Venue: Uradana Tonari, 3-57-8 Kyojima, Sumida, Tokyo
> Opening hours: 10 am – 6 pm

GOTO22 Glitches

Jan 23, 2022 |

I looked at Goto22 on a BBS (The Yard) in a silly way (V for view file right in the BBS) and it looked like this. Big success! Click to enhance.

Goto22 – ANSCII Carnival

Jan 20, 2022 | ,

A while back I released a collection of text graphics called Goto20. It was really well received at ASCII Arena, and now I’ve made another one: Goto22. They both use this rather unusual style that is wedged right in between two traditionally conflicting scenes for text graphics: Amiga ASCII and PC ANSI. Basically, I’ve chosen a bastard style that nobody is supposed to like but damnit it’s winning people over, one by one. We call it ANSCII. ANSCIIIIII!! Want to join the movement? I’ve used Blocktronics’ Moebius which is available for Win, Mac and Linux.

I’ve actually joined the ASCII group diViNE stYleRs and this thing of mine was first released on their Amiga BBS, The Yard. Releasing things first on a BBS is the shit. Ok yeah whatever.

> See the full thing at ASCII Arena (just press ‘View Colly’) or, you know, scroll down.

GlitchNES 2022

Jan 19, 2022 |

GlitchNES is a NES-software by NO CARRIER from 2009 that works like a real-time glitch VJ tool on the NES. A new version was just released and it includes graphics by lots of talented pixel artists, and actually me. I chose to make a pretend tracker in PETSCII to see that glitched on the NES. It seemed blasphemous enough..

Order it here ($ goes to good causes) and get more info here.