Creators of Intense Art, or Cia was an underground computer artscene group that primarily released ANSI, ASCII, and high resolution artwork from 1993 to 2001.
Like other artscene groups at the time, members communicated primarily through the use of dial up bulletin board systems.
The senior staff positions constantly changed hands during Cia's eight-year run, and it was ANSI artist Andrew Bell, under the pseudonym of Napalm, that kept the group on track .
Not unlike the rivalry between iCE and ACiD, there was highly visible competition between Cia and the members of artscene group Blade.
The 21st century was met with declining interest among Cia members, and the underground computer artscene in general.