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artemisia666, Ick_, b00leant, slippedbit, krish,daimonchip performs as different artists in different art forms.

art_emisia666

The one and only video output of STC. At the beginning of 2025 she entered the collective as GB photozine maker.

We discovered a way to convert raw bitmap GameboyCamera images from GameBoy to .png files thanks to mofosyne’s’arduino–gameboy-printer-emulator; Once the convertion was done, she started to work on her photozines.

After a while she pointed out that it would be awesome to contribute to our music lives with some glitchy visual stuff and started getting her hands on all the oldest and cheapest hardware she could find. Despite having no prior experience in video manipulation, she connected all the devices she found with meters of cables and built her own video setup, consisting of: a Panasonic WJ AVE-5 mixer, PlayStation2, Game Boy Color + Camera, a dirty video mixer, a Panasonic handicam and various CRTs she found on the street.

During performances she creates psychedelic and heavily glitched visuals, ranging from footage of the pope’s mass to clips from iconic films like Pink Flamingos and Eraserhead, as well as Windows XP screensavers. It’s not uncommon to see two controllers on stage: the audience is encouraged to engage in no-holds-barred battles in Tekken 4, mixed and glitched live. In calmer settings, in addition to creating photographic zines, she produces large-format prints of 2-bit pictures, video installations and caresses the static electricity on CRTs’ screens.

Ick_

Ick_ is an attempt to break the Chiptune/Video Game binary and everything that comes with it. Its sound is dirty and aggressive, breaking away from the mainstream melodic and upbeat 8-Bit music. It ranges from techno to gabber, but, coming from hardcore, always with a punk attitude. Ick_ is proof that even an old 1985 Gameboy can be a weapon.

b00leant

b00leant took shape in 2017, exploring various fields of cyber art. With Square Terror, he pursues an unconventional chiptune approach, seeking to destroy the cheerful retro imagery that lies behind 8-bit music. His sound is predominantly techno, ranging from sharp and rotten sounds to more hypnotic and dark rhythms.

With Square Terror, he pursues live coding projects, dissemination/workshops, and artistic performances.

krish

This is Krish. He enjoys doing things that others haven’t done yet, even if it involves a struggle. Despite the challenges, he believes that learning and creating new things is always worth it.

After years of wanting to, he finally decided to mod a Game Boy Advance to create 8-bit music and to have a compact, ergonomic device for his musical experiments. Shortly after, he had the “insane” idea to port ORCA to the Game Boy, adding an integrated version of mGB, and extending ArduinoBoy to send ORCA’s MIDI messages from the Game Boy to other instruments. Why?

Because a live coding platform doesn’t exist for the Game Boy, or for truly portable handhelds in general. While ORCA runs on Norns and Raspberry Pi, those aren’t as easy to pull out of a pocket and play while standing, sitting, or lying down. Does it work? Not entirely yet. There is still a lot of work to do, and he has only just begun. Will it be public? Perhaps one day. Once “everything” is functional, he will decide whether to open the project to collaborators worldwide who are more skilled than him and capable of rewriting the code (wherever necessary) to replace what was generated by AI.

Is it a commercial project? Of course not. The software he is using is under the GPL license. He sends a huge thank you to Hundredrabbits and Trash80 for their incredible work. For now, the project exists only for the Game Boy Advance, but he plans to develop versions for the GBC/DMG as well. He chose to use AI-assisted coding because he has limited free time and wanted to conduct a personal experiment using AI for a project of this nature.

slipped bit

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daimonchip

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