Vuk Ćosić

Vuk Ćosić

Vuk Ćosić in 2012
Born July 31, 1966
Yugoslavia
Website
Vuk Cosic

Vuk Ćosić (born July 31, 1966 in Belgrade), graduated from Univerzitet u Beogradu (The university of Belgrade) and earned a BA in Archaeology in 1991, emigrating that year to Trieste, Italy,[1] and the following year to the newly independent Slovenia.

Active in politics, literature and art, Ćosić has exhibited, published, and been active since 1994. He is well known for his challenging, ground-breaking work as a pioneer in the field of net.art. His constantly evolving oeuvre is characterized by an interesting mix of philosophical, political, and conceptual network-related issues on the one hand, and an innovative feeling for contemporary urban and underground aesthetics on the other. One of the pioneers of net.art, Ćosić became interested in ASCII code during a long period of research (1996–2001) on low-tech aesthetics, the economy, ecology and archaeology of the media, on the intersections between text and computer code, on the use of spaces in information, its fluid nature and infinite convertibility. Out of this came History of Art for the Blind, ASCII Unreal (an art game), ASCII Camera, ASCII Architecture, Deep ASCII and ASCII History of Moving Images, a history of the cinema converted into text format.[2] He is a co-founder of Nettime, Syndicate, 7-11, and Ljubljana Digital Media Lab. The most notable venues, among many others, include Videotage, Hong Kong; Media Artlab, Tel Aviv; Venice Biennial; MIT Medialab; Walker Center, Minneapolis; Postmasters, NYC; Kunsthalle, Vienna; LAMoCA, Los Angeles; ICA, London and Beaubourg, Paris. One of his most recent works is the File Extinguisher, an online service that allows you to delete your files with absolute certainty.

Art

Ćosić uses ASCII characters (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) as the little dots or pixels that you find in a print or video image and transforms them into ASCII characters to form a new image or video image. He created is own software to covert the pixels from still and moving images into ACII. Ćosić has also worked and experimented with moving ASCII, ASCII audio, and ASCII camera. ASCII thoughts relevant to this work are briefly summarized through few fragments of text.[3]

One of his most recent works is the File Extinguisher, an online service that allows a user to delete their files with absolute certainty.

Ćosić has put together a retrospective of some of his net.art, including various images from History Of Art For Airports. Ćosić borrowed both iconic and lesser known images, reducing them to resemble the kind of pictograms found on lavatory doors. The sources of many of the images are instantly recognisable, such as Cézanne's Card Players and Warhol's Campbell's Soup.

The show also includes a new work, File Extinguisher, which Ćosić describes as "a project that fixes the web by providing the surfer with a totally free file deleting service. All you need to do is upload your file and we'll delete it for you, completely."

Personal exhibitions and projects

1991

1992

1994

1995

1996

1997

1998

Videography

Script & Dir Vuk Ćosić Programming Luka Frelih

Music video

Ćosić's Net.Art

External links

References

  1. ↑ Barbara Borčić. "Vuk COSIC". Retrieved 2008-05-05.
  2. ↑ "Vuk COSIC". Retrieved 2008-04-28.
  3. ↑ Tribe, Mark. New Media Art. p. 38. ISBN 978-3-8228-3041-3.

Sources

Araújo, Sandra. (2010). Deconstructing Vuk Ćosić: Data as Language. Art & Education. http://www.artandeducation.net/paper/deconstructing-vuk-cosic-data-as-language/

Rinehard, Richard. (2011). "Vuk Ćosić: ASCII History of Moving Images" University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive. http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibition/cosic