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| Formation | 1 September 1990 |
|---|---|
| Purpose | Digital arts: ANSI art/tracking/demo |
| Headquarters | United States |
| Products | ACiD View ACiDDraw Empathy PabloDraw SAUCE XBin ACiDnews ACiD Radio |
| Leader | RaD Man |
Key people | RaD Man Shadow Demon Grimm The Beholder Phantom |
| Affiliations | Remorse ASCII pHluid |
| Website | acid.org |
ACiD Productions (ACiD) is a digital art group. Founded in 1990, the group originally specialized in ANSI artwork for bulletin board systems (BBS).[1] More recently, they have extended their reach into other graphical media and computer software development. During the BBS-era, their biggest competitor was iCE Advertisements.[2]
History
[edit]ACiD Productions was founded in 1990 as ANSI Creators in Demand[3] by five members: RaD Man, Shadow Demon, Grimm, The Beholder, and Phantom. Their work originally concentrated in ANSI and ASCII art, but the group later branched out into other artistic media such as tracker music, demo coding, and multimedia software development (e.g., image viewers). Membership rose from five members in 1990 to well over seven hundred by 2003.[4]
In the mid-1990s, ACiD created subsidiary groups responsible for these broader areas. For example, Remorse is the official ACiD sub-label responsible for ASCII art and other text-based graphics. Similarly, pHluid is responsible for module tracking and music production, and ACiDic handles bulletin board software modification and enhancement.
Following the post dial-up BBS era, ACiD focused largely on the preservation of digital art history, talk radio news, the sale of their DVD-based artscene archives,[5][6] and sponsorship of demoparties.[7][8][9]
In 2008, the San Francisco gallery 20 goto 10 featured an exhibit of ACiD artists Somms and Lord Jazz.[10][11][12][13]
In 2013, members from ACiD collaborated with 21st century ANSI art collective Blocktronics to produce "Blocktronics ACiD Trip", a scrolling ANSI measuring 3266 lines tall. This ANSI artwork debuted at Demosplash at Carnegie Mellon University where it was awarded first place in the ANSI and ASCII category.[14][15][16][17]
Works
[edit]ACiD has produced a variety of well-received works and services. A select list follows:
- "Out of Sight, Out of Mind"[18]
- ACiD View
- SimpleXB
- RemorseView
- ACiDDraw
- Empathy
- PabloDraw
- pHluid
- The Product
- Lancelot II
- ACiDnews
- The ARTS (news/talk radio)
- pHluid Radio (music)
- ACiD Radio (music)
See also
[edit]- Aces of ANSI Art (<A.A.A>)
- ANSI art
- ASCII art
- List of artscene groups
- List of text editors (ASCII art section)
References
[edit]- ^ Garrett, Ben (2025-08-06). "Online Software Piracy of the Last Millennium". defacto2.net.
ACID (ANSI Creators In Demand) where the first of these international groups, trend setters who originally specialised in ANSI art and ANSIMation ads. They earned their reputation at being one of the best groups by creating art for the best pirate boards of the time.
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- ^ "Artscene". BBS: The Documentary. 2005.
- ^ ACiD-100 All-time memberlist (1990–2003)
- ^ "dark+domain: the artpacks.acid.org collection". cd.textfiles.com.
- ^ "Dark Domain - Defacto2". defacto2.net. Archived from the original on 2025-08-06.
- ^ "ACiD sponsors ansi/ascii compo - News". www.demoparty.net.
- ^ "EVOKE 2005 - partners". www.evoke.eu.
- ^ "TMDC11 - Text Mode Demo Contest XI". 2025-08-06. Archived from the original on 2025-08-06.
- ^ "ANSI Art for the Masses video - CNET TV". Archived from the original on 2025-08-06. Retrieved 2025-08-06.
- ^ "Watch ANSI Art | Geek Entertainment TV Episodes | Tech & Gadgets Videos | Blip". Archived from the original on 2025-08-06. Retrieved 2025-08-06.
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- ^ Lee, Ellen (2025-08-06). "Early computer-generated art revived for S.F. exhibit". SFGate.
- ^ "Deeply psychedelic ANSI scroller is longest ever". Boing Boing. 2025-08-06. Archived from the original on 2025-08-06.
- ^ Souppouris, Aaron (2025-08-06). "Join R2-D2 and Hitler on an unforgettable ANSI acid trip". The Verge.
- ^ "Blocktronics ACiD Trip, A Super Long Piece of Collaborative ANSI Art". 2025-08-06.
- ^ "The Blocktronics ACiD Trip". Acclaim Magazine. 2025-08-06.
- ^ "Out of sight out of mind by ANSI Creators in Demand". www.pouet.net.