Aces of ANSI Art (abbreviated as )
was the first group of artists specifically organized for the purposes of creating and distributing
ANSI art.
The group was founded and operated by two BBS enthusiasts from California, "Zyphril" and "Chips Ahoy", from 1989 through 1991.
History
The group was initially formed in 1989
during the
BBS era, but soon after the group's founding, ANSI art groups took on a life of their own, growing increasingly popular and spawning what would come to be known as the "
artscene
The computer art scene, or simply artscene, is the community interested and active in the creation of computer art, computer-based artwork.
Early computer art
The history of computer art predates the computer art scene for several decades, with ...
."
ANSI art, which initially began as a method for bulletin board sysops to draw users to their boards, but with the emergence of organized groups, the artscene became associated with "underground" culture, such as
warez
Warez refers to pirated software and other copyrighted digital media—such as video games, movies, music, and e-books—illegally distributed online, often after bypassing digital rights management (DRM). The term, derived from “software wa ...
boards.
In 1990, a schism occurred when a small but influential group of members left the group to form
ACiD Productions.
ACiD (ANSI Creators In Demand) grew to become the first ''international'' artscene group.
Membership
* Chips Ahoy (Founder)
* Zyphril (Founder)
* Opus Outland
*
RaD Man
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(Senior member)
* Mondoman
* The Beholder
* Icepirate
See also
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ANSI art
*
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 and ASCI ...
*
Demoscene
The demoscene () is an international computer art subculture focused on producing demos: self-contained, sometimes extremely small, computer programs that produce audiovisual presentations. The purpose of a demo is to show off computer programmi ...
*
Digital art
Digital art, or the digital arts, is artistic work that uses Digital electronics, digital technology as part of the creative or presentational process. It can also refer to computational art that uses and engages with digital media. Since the 1960 ...
*
List of artscene groups
*
Pixel art
*
Software art
Further reading
* Danet, Brenda. ''"Cyberpl@y: Communicating Online"''. Oxford, UK: Berg Publishers, 2001. .
* ''"Dark Domain: the artpacks.acid.org collection"'' (DVD-ROM). San Jose, CA, USA: ACiD Productions, LLC, 2004. .
* Hacker Chronicles, CD-Rom, produced and distributed by P-80 Systems.
* Scott, Jason. ''"
BBS: The Documentary"'' (DVD). Boston, MA, USA: Bovine Ignition Systems, 2005.
* Wands, Bruce (2006). ''Art of the Digital Age'', London: Thames & Hudson. .
*
Zetter, Kim.
"How Humble BBS Begat Wired World"'.
Wired News
''Wired'' is a bi-monthly American magazine that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics. It is published in both print and online editions by Condé Nast. The magazine has been in publication since its l ...
. June 8, 2005. Retrieved October 27, 2005.
References
External links
Examples of ANSI Artwork
Aces of ANSI Art Classics a YouTube video featuring Animations from 1991 by Members of the AAA
artscene.textfiles.com The artscene branch of the
textfiles.com library.
darkdomain.org ''Dark Domain (2004)''. An archive on DVD which hosts a complete collection of underground artscene works between 1987 and 2003.
Roy/SAC Text Artist Superior Art Creations, Information about ASCII Art Styles, SAC Art Packs Download
Sixteen Colors ANSI Art and ASCII Art Archive- A web viewable archive of current and past ANSI and ASCII
packs released by the
computer art scene
The computer art scene, or simply artscene, is the community interested and active in the creation of computer-based artwork.
Early computer art
The history of computer art predates the computer art scene for several decades, with the first ex ...
More on the History of the Art Scene
BBS: The DocumentaryEpisode 5 documents the rise of the Art Scene
Releases
Aces of ANSI Art Remembrance Pack- An archive of ANSI artwork created by various members of the group between 1989 and 1991.
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1989 establishments in the United States
Artscene groups
ASCII art
Bulletin board systems
Demogroups