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Мозгошум (22. Шум / Noise) by moroz1999, 2025. ZX Spectrum.

From SPECSCII Art by UriS, 2024.

h!tart by bfox, 2026. This is Specscii, meaning it’s the ASCII of the ZX Spectrum. 128 character font, 8 colours, and a resolution of 32×24.

h/t: SiXX

Computer Poetry by Silvestre Pestana, consists of three poems. Computer Poetry To: E. Melo e Castro (ZX81, 1981), Computer Poetry To: Henry Chopin (ZX81, 1981), Computer Poetry To: Julian Beck (ZX Spectrum, 1983).

Here is the third one in action, running on a ZX Spectrum emulator, courtesy of oficinastk.

The work was also featured in a more recent exhibition by the artist (techno-form, 2016).

Read more here.

“From a 1988 Polish computer magazine” / @mwichary.

LumASCII (ZX Spectrum) by Bob Smith (2012). It took 9 months to code it, since there weren’t many tools for the Speccy to work with “colour ASCII”. Longplay version here.
Thanks to Akira and Ilkke  for the heads up.