The history of ASCII code reflects a number of technological and conceptual developments which have led to modern digital computers and elements of cryptography, real-time communication and communication networks. By juxtaposing this code with the history of cinema, Cosic achieves what might be termed an artistic compression, bringing together many key aspects of computer culture and new media art into a single unique form.
'The project at St. George's Hall forms a kind of homage to the work of Bertrand Lavier. 'ASCII Architecture' juxtaposes an artistic interpretation over the object, with the key difference being that the artists' hand is extended through the use of ASCII conversion software instead of the brush. St. George's Hall, in its ASCII disguise, offers a large-scale symbolic opposition to the current developments in high technology, where the emphasis is on spectacle and style and beyond meaning and intelligence. This project is intended as a means of initiating a debate and dialogue about arts and technology from the position conventionally called New Low Tech Media.
By taking a marginalised technology from our recent technological past and applying it directly to a highly-valued aesthetic form - the neo-classical architecture of St. George's Hall itself- I hope to establish a marriage of approaches and form that expresses its temporal relationship as well its visual conjunction.' [Vuk Cosic]
Presented at St. George's Hall, Liverpool.
Commissioned by FACT.
Financially supported by the Slovenian Cultural Embassy and Visiting Arts.
New Commission.
[LESS]The history of ASCII code reflects a number of technological and conceptual developments which have led to modern digital computers and elements of cryptography, real-time communication and communication networks. By juxtaposing this code with the history of cinema, Cosic achieves what might be termed an artistic compression, bringing together many key aspects of computer culture and new media art into a single unique form.
'The project at St. George's Hall forms a kind of homage to the work of Bertrand Lavier. 'ASCII Architecture' juxtaposes an artistic interpretation over the object, with the key difference being that the artists' hand is extended through the use of ASCII conversion software instead of the brush. St. George's Hall, in its ASCII disguise, offers a large-scale symbolic opposition to the current developments in high technology, where the emphasis is on spectacle and style and beyond meaning and intelligence. This project is intended as a means of initiating a debate and dialogue about arts and technology from the position conventionally called New Low Tech Media.
By taking a marginalised technology from our recent technological past and applying it directly to a highly-valued aesthetic form - the neo-classical architecture of St. George's Hall itself- I hope to establish a marriage of approaches and form that expresses its temporal relationship as well its visual conjunction.' [Vuk Cosic]
Presented at St. George's Hall, Liverpool.
Commissioned by FACT.
Financially supported by the Slovenian Cultural Embassy and Visiting Arts.
New Commission.
