ACiD Productions explained

ACiD Productions
Headquarters:	United States
Category:	ANSI art/tracking/demo
Leader:	RaD Man
Key People:	RaD Man Shadow Demon Grimm The Beholder Phantom
Products:	ACiD View ACiDDraw Empathy PabloDraw SAUCE XBin ACiDnews ACiD Radio
Affiliations:	Remorse ASCII pHluid
Purpose:	Digital arts
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

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 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

ACiD has produced a variety of well-received works and services. A select list follows:

Demos

• "Out of Sight, Out of Mind"^[18]

Image viewers

• ACiD View
• SimpleXB
• RemorseView

Image editors

• ACiDDraw
• Empathy
• PabloDraw

Metadata protocols and binary image standard

• SAUCE
• XBin

Music disks

• pHluid

Disk magazines

• The Product
• Lancelot II
• ACiDnews

Radio programming

• The ARTS (news/talk radio)
• pHluid Radio (music)
• ACiD Radio (music)

See also

• Aces of ANSI Art ()
• ANSI art
• ASCII art
• List of artscene groups
• List of text editors (ASCII art section)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Online Software Piracy of the Last Millennium . Ben . Garrett . 2004-04-27 . 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..
2. Hargadon, Michael A. "Like City Lights, Receding: ANSi Artwork and the Digital Underground, 1985-2000." Concordia University, 2011-03-18. Retrieved 2011-10-18.
3. . Artscene. 2005.
4. https://web.archive.org/web/20050208130916/http://www.acid.org/100/eternal.html ACiD-100 All-time memberlist
5. Web site: dark+domain: the artpacks.acid.org collection. cd.textfiles.com.
6. Web site: Dark Domain - Defacto2. defacto2.net.
7. Web site: ACiD sponsors ansi/ascii compo - News. www.demoparty.net.
8. Web site: EVOKE 2005 - partners. www.evoke.eu.
9. Web site: TMDC11 - Text Mode Demo Contest XI. 23 July 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080723165945/http://www.tmdc.scene.org/. 23 July 2008.
10. Web site: ANSI Art for the Masses video - CNET TV . 2013-12-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131215102642/http://cnettv.cnet.com/ansi-art-masses/9742-1_53-32159.html . 2013-12-15.
11. Web site: Watch ANSI Art | Geek Entertainment TV Episodes | Tech & Gadgets Videos | Blip . 2013-12-15 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131215101028/http://blip.tv/getv/ansi-art-618816 . 2013-12-15.
12. Web site: ansi. 21 February 2008. https://web.archive.org/web/20080221175728/http://www.ansigallery.com/. 21 February 2008.
13. Web site: Early computer-generated art revived for S.F. exhibit. Ellen. Lee. 12 January 2008. SFGate.
14. Web site: Deeply psychedelic ANSI scroller is longest ever. Boing Boing. 10 October 2013.
15. Web site: Join R2-D2 and Hitler on an unforgettable ANSI acid trip. Aaron. Souppouris. 11 October 2013. The Verge.
16. Web site: Blocktronics ACiD Trip, A Super Long Piece of Collaborative ANSI Art. 10 October 2013.
17. Web site: The Blocktronics ACiD Trip. 13 October 2013. Acclaim Magazine.
18. Web site: Out of sight out of mind by ANSI Creators in Demand. www.pouet.net.