The artist I chose is Slovenian artist Vuk Cosic. His art attracted me because I too have found myself playing on my calculator making pictures using different combinations of numbers and characters. It is interesting that these symbols can be used as pixels and are able to produce such a creation. These symbols and letters are called ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Exchange). ASCII is the way computers communicate with eachother.
Is it art? I say yes because this man took ordinary numbers and symbols and created pictures that tell a story. when I first saw this picture it reminded me of the Matrix. I pictured the numbers flowing across the screen, but with Cosic they would form a picture or an animation. This kind of art seems tedious and would not be my first choice as an art project but I do find it intriguing that different combinations of symbols and numbers can make such an interesting image.
Here is his website showing some of the films he has done using his net.art technique. It is quite interesting.
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