Video available only in physical archive
Artist: Ćosić, Vuk
Title: Deep ASCII
Duration: 01:00:05
Year: 1998
Genre: Hybrid Art / Experimental video / Computer Graphics
Director: Ćosić, Vuk
Scenarij: Ćosić, Vuk
: Frelih, Luka
Collaborators:
Country: Slovenia, Netherlands
The ASCII conversion of the famous porno film Deep Throat.The author reduces volume of the image to a combination of black and green with various symbols. He is interested about durability of data, but also posses a more complex question about the transfer of information. Video Deep ASCII plays with the limit where information disappears.
ASCII is a 7-bit encoding scheme for exchanging information, which artists have used to make (animated) images. Its use in artistic contexts highlights the (im)-permanence of information, the software tools used to record them, and the media used to represent them. The use of some, now obsolete software tools points to their almost vintage nature.
The video is comprised of green bit characters on a monochrome surface. In this way, the video introduces straightforwardly comparable, simple aesthetics, questioning the profusion of images. The video brings the images together, and reveals an original mode of expression in the modernist sense.
