Vuk Cosic :

The first of my artists that I researched was Slovenian Vuk Cosic.

Vuk was one of the co-founders of the net.art movement. His site documents some of his many works. The majority of which show his passion for ASCII art.

These works range from creating ASCII textured worlds in Unreal Tournament, creating entire movies where each individual frame is created using ASCII characters and also projecting an ASCII rendering of a building onto the building itself.

Unlike most artists who embrace the latest technologies into their work whenever possible, Vuk seems to do the opposite. He takes older technologies (such as ASCII) and attempts to utilise them for more modern projects.

Vuk's passion for ASCII stems from a quote made by the former Serbian Minister of Culture - Mr. Danilo Ž. Markovic who said the Serbian Cyrillics where "not only the most beautiful script but also the most suitable for work with computers".

Vuk also references the fact that the first Serbian Cyrillics where preinted in Vienna, Austria by a man named Vuk.

Whilst researching this subject I also came across this app. which generates ASCII art from a JPEG, GIF or PNG and allows it to be saved either as an image or as a text document.