Examples from Homeless by Hiro Protagonist, 2004.
Tag Archives: 2000s
Eighteen Types by Andrew Hurle. Photos of Tokyo bar girls converted to ASCII, and mangled. See the full collection on the artist’s website.
Each of these two women are represented as an ASCII image set in nine different typefaces and has been magnified from an image captured from the computer screen.
Perhaps this was made around the same time as his other ASCII-related works, ca 2000. This post was updated in 2024.
Pedobear is an Internet meme that became popular through the imageboard 4chan (where these images are from). As the name suggests, it is “portrayed as a pedophilic cartoon bear”.
John Whitney’s 1972 work Matrix III remixed in ANSI by YouTube user skuzzyanimation, who has more ANSI-interpretations like this.
By parr, 2002
Live shift-JIS ASCII drawing by shishiaa, 2005.
モナーたちにハレ晴レユカイを躍らせてみた。(I tried to make the Monas dance Hare Hare Yukai) by naizouken426, 2007. Based on the Haruhi Dance from Hare Hare Yukai.
A day of a lonely dog by the Japanese artist Maki Ueda, 2000. Shown in a teletext exhibition on the Dutch channel NPS, also featuring works by Edwin van der Heide, JODI, Joost Rekveld and Wolf.
Post updated in 2024.