The Work of Vuk Cosic

For Doug's FA332 Print and Web class, we have been asked to do a presentation on an artist from one of our textbooks. For my presentation, I presented (or in the near future will present) a man named Vuk Cosic. I figured another new media artist would make a good blog post, right? Right.
Vuk Cosic was born on July 31st, 1966 in Yugoslavia. He graduated from the University of Belgrade with a BA in Archaeology. I find this very interesting, especially considering I couldn't find any other educational information, such as some sort of artistic degree. Apparently archaeologists like to make art with computer programs these days.
Cosic is most well known for his work with 3D ASCII art. For those who don't know, ASCII art (which stands for American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is the positioning and manipulation of text to be put into an artistic form, such as a picture. Cosic, however, takes this a step farther and makes an actual 3D image that moves for about 5 to 10 seconds, and then repeats itself. He has remade some famous movie scenes, such as a scene from Hitchcock's "Psycho," a scene from "Star Trek," and even a scene from a pornographic film titled "Deep Throats." Here are a few examples of his ASCII art:

Along with ASCII art, another one of Cosic's famous works is known as "History of Art for Airports." In this work, Cosic takes different works of art (both famous and non) and simplifiers them down to the style of a bathroom pictogram. I find these to be the most interesting kind of work the Cosic does. Here are a few examples:

Cezanne's "Card Players" and Cosic's simplified version

Warhol's "Cambell's Soup" and Cosic's simplified version

Vuk Cosic's web page.