Taiwaneese ANSI in original, in HTML, and googletranslated into English. The original is Metal Upa by emptie@ptt.

By Severija Inčirauskaitė, 2016. More of her work here.

Paintings by Julio Le Parc, 1970-1974.

Ancient patterns, mostly from Peru. via

Terremoto (Earthquake) by Augusto de Campos, 1956. Published in Concrete Poetry by Mary Ellen Solt.

PETSCII-lion by Cal Skuthorpe. His second PETSCII-work ever.

Naked asexual bodies ftw. Uploaded by asciiart here.

Micrography from a festival prayer book (mahzor) for Rosh ha-Shanah, France, 14th century.

Various Amiga ASCIIs by Ilkke.

Grupa Tok performance, Serbia 1973.

More χχχ atresmedia teletext ladies (Spain, 2013)

TEXT MODE ILLUSIONS. By Jo Edkins.

P-159-A by Manfred Mohr, 1974.

 蛋糕 BY wengee (2011).

Karl Marx in coloured Amiga ASCII by Lord Nikon.

Rouyer, A./ Recuéil de Motifs et d’Alphabets Coloriés pour travaux en tapisserie, No. 401. (Paris,c.1880?). Via.

prostheticknowledge:

A Twitter profile from Smart Argentina (@smartArg) features all the frames to a text art animation, a car commercial. I put this gif animation together to see what it looks like – the idea being that you press / hold the ‘j’ button on your keyboard to automatically jump to the next tweet in succession.

You can try it out for yourself here

PS – I tried to get this to upload as a photo post (the image easily fits the limits, yet wouldn’t upload – no idea why …)

Kim Asendorf, an interactive artist from Kassel, Germany, has just released the first version of ONull, a new tool for vectorizing raster graphics.

Videonics Titlemaker, 1992.