Vuk Ćosić

Vuk Ćosić is widely recognised as one of the founding pioneers of net.art, the last avant-guard movement of the twentieth century. The artist - trained as an archaeologist - has embarked on the quest for a speculative history of computer graphics as if there were no vector or raster solutions. This conceptual journey of discovery combined the tenets of early critical media art (specifically net.art) and the sensitivities of media archaeology. Further motive was an attempt to escape the perceived standardization diktat by the big tech. The first artistic projects that derived from this approach include ASCII videos, ASCII music videos, ASCII Camera, ASCII Architecture, ASCII for the blind, ASCII Unreal game (all in 1998 and 1999) and Deep ASCII, a novel (artists book), Very Deep ASCII (cuneiform tablets) plus a number of graphic prints and smaller projects.