ACiD Productions (ACiD) is a

digital art Digital art refers to any artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process, or more specifically computational art that uses and engages with digital media. Since the 1960s, various name ...

group. Founded in 1990, the group originally specialized in ANSI artwork for BBSes. More recently, they have extended their reach into other graphical media and

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development. During the BBS-era, their biggest competitor was

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.Hargadon, Michael A.
Like City Lights, Receding: ANSi Artwork and the Digital Underground, 1985-2000
" ''Concordia University'', 2011-03-18. Retrieved 2011-10-18.

History

ACiD Productions was founded in 1990 as ANSI Creators in DemandSadofsky, Jason Scott.
BBS: The Documentary
. ARTSCENE Episode. 2005-05-21. by five members: RaD Man, Shadow Demon, Grimm, The Beholder, and Phantom. Their work originally concentrated in

ANSI The American National Standards Institute (ANSI ) is a private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. The organ ...

and

ASCII art ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) character (computing), characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 an ...

, but the group later branched out into other artistic media such as tracker music, demo coding, and multimedia

software development Software development is the process of conceiving, specifying, designing, programming, documenting, testing, and bug fixing involved in creating and maintaining applications, frameworks, or other software components. Software development inv ...

(e.g., image viewers). Membership rose from five members in 1990 to well over seven hundred by 2003.ACiD-100 All-time memberlist
(1990–2003) In the mid-1990s, ACiD created subsidiary groups responsible for these broader areas. For example, Remorse is the official ACiD sub-label responsible for ASCII art and other text-based graphics. Similarly, pHluid is responsible for module tracking and music production, and ACiDic handles bulletin board software modification and enhancement. Following the post dial-up BBS era, ACiD focused largely on the preservation of

history,

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news, the sale of their DVD-based artscene archives, and sponsorship of demoparties. In 2008, the

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gallery 20 goto 10 featured an exhibit of ACiD artists Somms and Lord Jazz. In 2013, members from ACiD collaborated with 21st century ANSI art collective Blocktronics to produce "Blocktronics ACiD Trip", a scrolling ANSI measuring lines tall. This ANSI artwork debuted at Demosplash at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

where it was awarded first place in the ANSI and ASCII category.

Works

ACiD has produced a variety of well-received works and services. A select list follows:

Demos Demos may refer to: Computing * DEMOS, a Soviet Unix-like operating system * DEMOS (ISP), the first internet service provider in the USSR * Demos Commander, an Orthodox File Manager for Unix-like systems * plural for Demo (computer programming ...

* "Out of Sight, Out of Mind"

Image viewer An image viewer or image browser is a computer program that can display stored graphical images; it can often handle various graphics file formats. Such software usually renders the image according to properties of the display such as color depth ...
s

* ACiD View * SimpleXB * RemorseView

Image editors

* ACiDDraw * Empathy *

PabloDraw PabloDraw is a cross-platform text editor designed for creating ANSI and ASCII art, similar to that of its MS-DOS-based predecessors; '' ACiDDraw'' (1994) and ''TheDraw'' (1986). A notable feature of PabloDraw is its integrated multi-user editing ...

Metadata protocols and binary image standard

SAUCE In cooking, a sauce is a liquid, cream, or semi-solid food, served on or used in preparing other foods. Most sauces are not normally consumed by themselves; they add flavor, moisture, and visual appeal to a dish. ''Sauce'' is a French word t ...

* XBin

Music disk Music is generally defined as the The arts, art of arranging sound to create some combination of Musical form, form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise Musical expression, expressive content. Exact definition of music, definitions of mu ...
s

* pHluid

Disk magazines

* ''The Product'' * ''Lancelot II'' * ''ACiDnews''

Radio Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transm ...
programming

* The ARTS ( news/

) * pHluid Radio (music) * ACiD Radio (music)

References

External links

* {{official website, http://www.acid.org, name=ACiD Productions Artscene groups Bulletin board systems Tracker musicians American artist groups and collectives Arts organizations established in 1990 Computer-related introductions in 1990 Internet properties established in 1990 1990 establishments in the United States