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ACiD Productions (ACiD) is a
digital art Digital art refers to any artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process, or more specifically computational art that uses and engages with digital media. Since the 1960s, various name ...
group. Founded in 1990, the group originally specialized in
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work for BBSes. More recently, they have extended their reach into other graphical media and
computer software Software is a set of computer programs and associated documentation and data. This is in contrast to hardware, from which the system is built and which actually performs the work. At the lowest programming level, executable code consist ...
development. During the BBS-era, their biggest competitor was iCE Advertisements.Hargadon, Michael A.
Like City Lights, Receding: ANSi Artwork and the Digital Underground, 1985-2000
" ''Concordia University'', 2011-03-18. Retrieved 2011-10-18.


History

ACiD Productions was founded in 1990 as ANSI Creators in DemandSadofsky, Jason Scott.
BBS: The Documentary
. ARTSCENE Episode. 2005-05-21.
by five members: RaD Man, Shadow Demon, Grimm, The Beholder, and Phantom. Their work originally concentrated in
ANSI The American National Standards Institute (ANSI ) is a private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. The organi ...
and
ASCII art ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant char ...
, but the group later branched out into other artistic media such as
tracker music Tracker may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Tracker (''G.I. Joe''), in the ''G.I. Joe'' universe * Tracker (''PAW Patrol''), in the animated television series ''PAW Patrol'' * Tracker Cameron, in the television series ' ...
, demo coding, and multimedia
software development Software development is the process of conceiving, specifying, designing, programming, documenting, testing, and bug fixing involved in creating and maintaining applications, frameworks, or other software components. Software development invo ...
(e.g., image viewers). Membership rose from five members in 1990 to well over seven hundred by 2003.ACiD-100 All-time memberlist
(1990–2003)
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 In computing, text-based user interfaces (TUI) (alternately terminal user interfaces, to reflect a dependence upon the properties of computer terminals and not just text), is a retronym describing a type of user interface (UI) common as an ear ...
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 Digital art refers to any artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process, or more specifically computational art that uses and engages with digital media. Since the 1960s, various name ...
history,
talk radio Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues and consisting entirely or almost entirely of original spoken word content rather than outside music. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often featu ...
news, the sale of their DVD-based artscene archives, and sponsorship of demoparties. In 2008, the
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gallery 20 goto 10 featured an exhibit of ACiD artists Somms and Lord Jazz. 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 Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...
where it was awarded first place in the ANSI and ASCII category.


Works

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


Demos Demos may refer to: Computing * DEMOS, a Soviet Unix-like operating system * DEMOS (ISP), the first internet service provider in the USSR * Demos Commander, an Orthodox File Manager for Unix-like systems * plural for Demo (computer programming) ...

* "Out of Sight, Out of Mind"


Image viewer An image viewer or image browser is a computer program that can display stored graphical images; it can often handle various graphics file formats. Such software usually renders the image according to properties of the display such as color depth ...
s

* ACiD View * SimpleXB * RemorseView


Image editors

* ACiDDraw * Empathy * PabloDraw


Metadata Metadata is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data, such as the text of a message or the image itself. There are many distinct types of metadata, including: * Descriptive metadata – the descriptive ...
protocols and binary image standard

*
SAUCE In cooking, a sauce is a liquid, cream, or semi-solid food, served on or used in preparing other foods. Most sauces are not normally consumed by themselves; they add flavor, moisture, and visual appeal to a dish. ''Sauce'' is a French wor ...
* XBin


Music disk Music is generally defined as the art of arranging sound to create some combination of form, harmony, melody, rhythm or otherwise expressive content. Exact definitions of music vary considerably around the world, though it is an aspect ...
s

* pHluid


Disk magazines

* ''The Product'' * ''Lancelot II'' * ''ACiDnews''


Radio Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30  hertz (Hz) and 300  gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a tr ...
programming

* The ARTS (
news News is information about current events. This may be provided through many different media: word of mouth, printing, postal systems, broadcasting, electronic communication, or through the testimony of observers and witnesses to event ...
/
talk radio Talk radio is a radio format containing discussion about topical issues and consisting entirely or almost entirely of original spoken word content rather than outside music. Most shows are regularly hosted by a single individual, and often featu ...
) * pHluid Radio (music) * ACiD Radio (music)


See also

*
Aces of ANSI Art Aces of ANSI Art (abbreviated as ) was the first group of artists specifically organized for the purposes of creating and distributing ANSI art. The group was founded and operated by two BBS enthusiasts from California, "Zyphril" and "Chips Ahoy ...
() *
ANSI art The American National Standards Institute (ANSI ) is a private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. The organi ...
*
ASCII art ASCII art is a graphic design technique that uses computers for presentation and consists of pictures pieced together from the 95 printable (from a total of 128) characters defined by the ASCII Standard from 1963 and ASCII compliant char ...
* List of artscene groups * List of text editors (ASCII art section)


References


External links

* {{official website, http://www.acid.org, name=ACiD Productions Artscene groups Bulletin board systems Tracker musicians American artist groups and collectives Arts organizations established in 1990 Computer-related introductions in 1990 Internet properties established in 1990 1990 establishments in the United States