Vuk Ćosić

Infobox Celebrity
name = Vuk Cosic


caption =
birth_date = birth date and age|1966|7|31
birth_place = Yugoslavia
University = Univerzitet u Beogradu
website = [http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/ Vuk Cosic]

About

Vuk Cosic, Born on July 31st 1966 in Belgrade, graduated from Univerzitet u Beogradu an earned a BA in Archaeology in 1991, emigrating that year to Trieste , Italy , [citeweb|url=http://www.videodokument.org/cosic/cosic.htm|title=Vuk COSIC|accessdate=2008-05-05|author= Barbara Borčić|date=|work=|publisher=] and the following year to the newly independent Slovenia.Active in literature, politics and art, Cosic has exhibited, published, and been active on-line since 1994. Cosic 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, Vuk Cosic 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, ASCII Camera, ASCII Architecture, Deep ASCII and ASCII History of Moving Images, a history of the cinema converted into text format. [citeweb|url=http://www.imal.org/HolyFire/en/?page_id=22|title=Vuk COSIC|accessdate=2008-04-28|author|=|date=|work=|publisher=] A co-founder of Nettime, Syndicate, 7-11, and Ljubljana Digital Media Lab. Most notable venues (commissions, personal and group shows, talks) include, among many others, Videotage, Hong Kong; Media Artlab, Tel Aviv; Venice Biennial; MIT Medialab;Walker Center, Minneapolis; Postmasters, NYC; Kunsthalle, Vienna; LAMoCA, Los Angeles; ICA, London; 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. [citeweb|url=|title=|accessdate=2008-04-28|author|=|date=|work=|publisher=]

Vuk Cosic's Art

Cosic 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. Cosic's 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. [citebook|title= New Media Art|last= Tribe|first= Mark|authorlink=|coauthor=|year=|publisher=|location=|isbn=978-3-8228-3041-3
pages=38] ASCII history of art for the Blind, ASCII history of the moving images (includes some black and green clips from Deep Throat, Blow Up, Star Trek), ASCII music videos (features Baby Light My Fire, California Dream, Venus, etc.) ASCII architecture consisted in fully covering the St. Georges Hall, a neo-classical monument in Liverpool, with the projection of ascii rendering of the same surface that it's being projected on.

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

Cosic has put together a retrospective of some of his net.art, including images from History Of Art For Airports. Cosic 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 Cezanne’s Card Players and Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup. The show also includes a new work, [http://www.file-extinguisher.com/ File Extinguisher] , which Cosic 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 Basta, Dubrovnik (with Krpan, Martek, Opalić, Talent, Tolj), Dubrovnik

1992 Ljubljana, Flat Jurij Krpan Trieste, Galeria Juliet Total Egal, St. Lambrecht (with Antun Maračič & Nenad Dančuo)

1994 Hollywood, Ljubljana, Ljubljana Castle

1995 Le Coco Fruitwear (Urbanaria - Part Two, with Matej Andraž Vogrinčič), Ljubljana, Prešernov trg > (Trabakula), Rijeka, Dubrovnik, Split > London, ICA > (Biennale dei Giovani Artisti dell'Europa e del Mediterraneo), Torino

1996 Velodrome Online (with Luka Frelih & Strip Core, The Drug of the Natyon), Copenhagen, Electronic Cafe International

1997 Raziskovalni Inštitut za Geo-umetniško statistiko Republike Slovenije: Public presentation of the mobile etalon of the Slovene Mediterranean metre (with Alenka Pirman & Irena Wölle), Piran, Tartinijev trg > Biennale dei Giovani Artisti dell'Europa e del Mediterraneo, Torino A Day in the Life of a Net.artist (Media in Media), Ljubljana, Mestna galerija

1998 History of Art for the Airports, Tank, No. 1, London

Lascaux, venus, st. sebastien, pieta, cezanne, duchamp, malevich, warhol, lumiere bros, star trek, king kong, haiku, jodi, bunting, shoulgin

Videography: Art Video

DEEP ASCIITTYvideo software, java, VHS, Vuk Ćosić, Amsterdam-Ljubljana 1998, 55' Script & Dir Vuk Ćosić Programming Luka Frelih

Music Video

ASCII Music VideoTTYvideo software, java, VHS, Vuk Ćosić, Amsterdam-Ljubljana 1998, 55' Script & Dir Vuk Ćosić Programming Luka Frelih

6 video clips by the Russian cyberpunk artist Alexei Shoulgin in the moving ASCII, published at a web site as well as on a VinylVideoTM record.

Cosic's Net. Art

* [http://ljudmila.org/~woelle/lajka/war/ War]
* [http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/ascii/camera.htm ASCII Camera]
* [http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/ascii/unreal// This is unreal]
* [http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/ascii/blind// ascii history of art for the blind]
* [http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/ascii/film/ ascii history of moving images]
* [http://rhizome.org/artbase/1725/index.html history of art for airports]
* [http://www.ljudmila.org/naps/ net.art per se]

External links

1. [http://rhizome.org/artbase/1725/index.html History of art for airports]

2. [http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk Official website]

References

* [http://www.taschen.com/pages/en/catalogue/art/all/03684/facts.new_media_art.htm New Media Art] Mark Tribe and Reena Jana.

* "Vuk Ćosić." Artforum International 40.7 (Mar. 2002): 40. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. [Library name] , [City] , [State abbreviation] . 29 Apr. 2008 .

* Vuk COSIC. http://www.videodokument.org/cosic/cosic.htm; accessdate=2008-05-05. author= Barbara