Vuk Cosic

Vuk Cosic, the man widely acknowledged for coining the term net.art, used a program and ASCII characters to create one of his best-known projects, ASCII History of Moving Images. Vuk Cosic used software to transform still frame images. He used ASCII characters, a set of numerical equivalents for typed letters and symbols that allow computer programs to talk to one another, to take the place of pixels in the image to create shadows and figures. After changing the still frames, Cosic quickly ran the images in succession to re-animate the original piece. Vuk was not the first to use these characters in art but this different way of recreating images goes with a long list of other ways Cosic has used to reproduced images.



The man who coined the term "net.art" has used the computer in an artistic way with this project. A few movies and television shows that he recreated in this way can be found HERE. These recreations have a futuristic look to them. It is cool that he used ASCII characters which were created in the 1960's to change classic videos in an artistic way.

I thought the videos and shows that Vuk Cosic chose to do were interesting because they spanned many genres from classic to pornography. With such a wide variety though, the art can be respected and enjoyed by a larger variation of people which is one idea behind New Media Art that brings people from all backgrounds together.