Vuk Ćosić

Ćosić uses ASCII characters (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) to form images or videos. He created his own software to convert the pixels from still and moving images into ASCII, and he has also experimented with audio and camera movement being transcribed through ASCII. Short sentences or paragraphs relevant to his work are often briefly summarized through few fragments of text in ASCII form. 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." The ASCII History of Art for the Blind is a webpage that describes selected images verbally by reading each of the ASCII characters that make up the image through an automatic recordings. War is a collection of files stored with images taken in front of a TV screen in 1999, recording the events that took place during the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. ==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, Cézanne, duchamp, malevich, warhol, lumiere bros, star trek, king kong, haiku, jodi, bunting, shoulgin 1998 • ASCII History of Moving Art, Ćosić's work presents seven short clips from well-known sources that recall points when film, television, and video were finding their voices as the new media of their day 2010 • As part of the 2010 celebrations in Ljubljana for having been nominated by UNESCO as the tenth World Book Capital, Ćosić held a book burning exhibit and lecture at the Trubar Literature House in homage to the anti-protestant book burning in the same city, in 1598 (where books by the protestant reformer Primož Trubar, after whom the venue is named, were presumably burned). The exhibit also alluded to the book burning event by Hebrew and Yiddish writer Ka-Tzetnik, who in 1993 stole a rare copy of his prewar book of poetry from the National Library of Israel, purportedly burnt it, and sent the remains back to the library with instructions to burn them, like all that was dear to him had burned in the Auschwitz crematoria. ==Videography==

• DEEP ASCII • TTYvideo software, java, VHS, Vuk Ćosić, Amsterdam-Ljubljana 1998, 55' Script & Dir Vuk Ćosić Programming Luka Frelih • C'Mon Babe Light My Fire 03.15 • Purple Haze 02.46 • California Dreamin 02.50 • Venus 03.16 • My Generation 03.08 • Should I Stay or Should I Go 03.50 ==Music Videos==

• ASciikk • TTYvideo 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. ==References==