The presentation is about 1 hour long and covers the early forms of text art starting at the ancient Rome, to Typewriter art, Radio Teletype or RTTY, Atari ATASCII art and C-64 PETSCII art to Amiga 500+ Oldskool art and PC Block or High ASCII art and Newskool. Christian Wirth aka RaD Man, founder of the PC Text art group ACiD (ANSI Creators in Demand) did a presentation called "The Art of Textmode - History of Text Art and the Computer ASCII Art Scene" at the Assembly Demo Party August 5th-8th, 2004 at the Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, Finland. It also addresses the Issues with "Block" ASCII and ANSI under Windows and what you can do.ĪSCII art might be a product of the modern age, which came with the invention of the computer, but text art, what ASCII art essentially is, preceeds modern ASCII art by hundreds, if not thousands of years. I wrote an article about the three Styles of the Underground Text Art Scene which explains things in much more detail and is also supported by real ASCII Examples to illustrate the Styles and their differences. Most examples of ASCII art require a fixed-width font (non-proportional fonts, like on a traditional typewriter) such as Courier for presentation. They can be created with any text editor, and are often used with free-form languages. The term is also used more loosely to refer to text based art in general. What is ASCII art?ĪSCII art, an artistic medium relying primarily on computers for presentation, consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable characters defined by ASCII. ASCII art and even more so "text art" is much older than that, but not subject to this article of mine. This article focuses on the ASCII and ANSI text art produced by the underground art scene on the PC and Amiga since the beginning of the 1990s. I also posted a video at my blog, which is about 1 hour long and shows a presentation by RaD Man, a fellow ASCII/ANSI artist where he shows the historic development of text art in general and also some great examples of ancient and modern types of text art. I contributed to it a lot myself and provides a good historic background to the subject. The Wikipedia article about ASCII art is very good. ASCII Art and other Text Art by Various Artists.
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