Vuk Cosic and ASCII Net.Art

By ronniechang on September 11th, 2009, 1:56 am 0 Comments

“I try to look into the past and continue the upgrading of some marginalized or forgotten technology.” -- Vuk Cosic

“Deep Throat”

ASCII History of Moving Images.

Vuk Cosic, is the founder of the term net.art which is used to describe internet-based art. His 4 years research has led him to produce works using ASCII ( American Standard Code for Information Exchange) to make moving images by converting/digitalizing old movie flicks.

A unique conceptual art that extend the boundaries of portraying the world in a 3-dimensional perspective but with basic technological easthetic of the past.  Early computer end-users would utilize ASCII symbols to formulate moving and non-moving images. However, the emergence of internet-based platforms enabled the artist to further explore this method as a new art form.

I was fascinated by this new form of digital representation, the overall effect of the green semiotic symbols reminded me of a scene out of the ‘Matrix’  and i thought it was pretty neat..

Other known works by Vuk Cosic includes ; eisenstein Star Trek Blow Up Psycho

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