{"id":228,"date":"2007-02-11T19:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-11T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/2007\/02\/history-of-text-art-video-by-rad-man-acid\/"},"modified":"2014-03-26T14:23:16","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T22:23:16","slug":"history-of-text-art-video-by-rad-man-acid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roysac.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/history-of-text-art-video-by-rad-man-acid\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Text Art Video by RaD Man \/ ACiD"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I “messed around” with the Wikipedia article to ASCII art<\/a> today. Okay, I did not mess with it, but rather cleaned it up and extended it a bit.<\/p>\n

This was triggered by a video of a friend of mine who is a well known figure in the underground text art scene with the name Christian Wirth.<\/p>\n

Back to ASCII Art Academy<\/a><\/center>Okay, he is not known by that name, but by his scene “Handle” which is RaD Man<\/a>. RaD Man <\/strong>was a senior member of the art group Aces of ANSI art in 1989, which is the first known underground text art group on the PC and founded a year after, in 1990, the probably best known and respected ANSI art group with the name ACiD<\/a>. ACiD stands for ANSI Creators in Demand<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

RaD Man was in Finland a couple years ago at the Assembly Demo party<\/a> and was doing a presentation about the History of Text art.<\/p>\n

The presentation is about 1 hour long and covers the early forms of text art starting at the ancient Rome<\/strong>, to Typewriter <\/strong>art, Radio Teletype or RTTY<\/strong>, Atari ATASCII <\/strong>art and C-64 PETSCII <\/strong>art to Amiga 500+ Oldskool <\/strong>art and PC Block <\/strong>or High ASCII <\/strong>art and Newskool<\/strong>. The climax is the presentation of some impressive Textmode demos that are of relative young age (2002 and later).<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>You can get the video, gigabytes of Text art and related material such as Tools and Editors, DiscMags and Source Code on DVD.<\/p>\n

RaD Man published his extensive collection.<\/p>\n

The DVD is called “Dark Domain<\/strong>” and you can order it directly from here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It is only $12.99 plus $4.55 (US) – $9.55 (International) shipping. Quite a bargin considering the amount of content on it.<\/p>\n

Here is the full video for free. I still recommend getting the DVD, because the Video is only a very small part of the DVD (which are actually 2 DVDs). To get your head around how much content it is, visit the Art Scene Text Files Archive<\/a> and look for yourself how much stuff is out there.<\/p>\n

There were some glitches during the presentation, but RaD Man is not a professional presenter. So, be a bit forgiving. Great stuff though and worth showing to other folks that are interested in this kind of stuff.<\/p>\n

[youtube:http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8LXPN-QSd0Y]<\/p>\n

Enjoy the Video! (Backup URL to Video<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Presentation full credits and details.<\/p>\n

The ASSEMBLY 2004 demoparty was held at Hartwall Areena in Helsinki, Finland from 5th to 8th of August 2004. The presentation was part of the ASSEMBLY ’04 ARTtech seminars.<\/p>\n

\"\"Presenter: Christian Wirth
\nPresentation Title: “The Art of Textmode”
\nOrganization: ACID
\nPosition: Founder and President
\nHomepage: http:\/\/www.acid.org<\/a>
\nDark Domain DVD: http:\/\/www.darkdomain.org<\/a> (released 2004)
\nEmail: radman@acid.org<\/a>
\nScene alias: Rad Man<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Christian Wirth during an interview by Jason Scott (textfiles.com) for the BBS Documentary film DVD<\/p>\n

Back to ASCII Art Academy<\/a><\/center>Cheers!
\nCarsten aka Roy\/SAC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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