ANSI Art Show at 20 GOTO 10 Gallery

Posted by Joel Johnson, January 28, 2008 7:40 AM | permalink

Geek Entertainment TV travelled to the 20 GOTO 10 gallery in San Francisco to look at the latest show, "ANSI," which highlights some of the great art that was created for the BBS scene of the '80s and '90s. (And probably some up into the '00s.) While some of the art is shown off in light boxes, they also built custom 25 line scrollers to display the art just as it had been seen by modem users back in the heady days of Zmodem.

It also made me aware of SixteenColors.net, a site that is attempting to curate every last bit of ANSI art from the era. There's some wonderful work there. It makes me want to display it on my own walls. Maybe I'll pull that LCD picture frame out that I rarely turn on and put it to good use.

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#1 posted by Joel Johnson

, January 28, 2008 7:53 AM

Can anyone figure out how to download the .ZIP packs at SixteenColors? I wanted to grab a couple, but it looks like you have to open each image and save the JPG, which isn't what I wanted to do.

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#2 posted by lordscarlet , January 28, 2008 12:24 PM

Sorry, I seem to be missing a link on the pack page... and I'm getting an error when navigating.. give me a few minutes and I should have it corrected..

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#3 posted by lordscarlet , January 28, 2008 12:52 PM

You should now be able to click on the pack name on the pack page and it will download the zip file. Sorry for the lack of functionality there. In addition, when viewing an individual piece you can download just the .ans for that piece (by clicking the filename on the right). That always worked.

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#4 posted by Joel Johnson

, January 28, 2008 2:00 PM

Thanks, Lord Scarlet. I'll give it a shot. Great site!

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#5 posted by EH , January 28, 2008 8:34 PM

Great news, but it would have been nice to know about this earlier...

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#6 posted by radman , January 29, 2008 9:23 PM

This is the final week of the ANSI art exhibit at 20 goto 10, but enormous props to everyone involved, they really put a great show together. The 6-foot tall lightbox piece by Lord Jazz was just awe-inspiring.