Vuk Cosic is a Slovenian artist first trained as a archaeologist whose ASCII History of Moving Images depicts scenes from popular films using letters, numbers, and computer symbols to create the images. This project is seen as a "critique of the utilitarian that underlies new media development and a celebration of the purposeless." The article calls this a "retro futuristic" aesthetic. I like that this art is sort of a critique of itself but that it does not dismiss the idea of art for art's sake. Not everything needs a purpose; sometimes it's just about expression. I found it interesting that they discuss the fact that this artist created the term "net.art" after seeing the two words put together in an email by mistake. There is a lot of analysis about how this term was created and it is compared to Marcel Duchamp's readymades.
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