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LEA New Media Exhibition: Interview with Vuk Cosic

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LEA New Media Exhibition
Re-Drawing Boundaries
Focus On: Vuk Ćosić
Curator: Jeremy Hight
Senior Curators: Lanfranco Aceti and Christiane Paul

Vuk Ćosić is one of the pioneers of web art practitioners using a new form of art called the net.art. Since 90’s, he is the one responsible for recognizing the potential and aesthetic aspect of the code and internet as both tool and subject. Ćosić is a “hacker of ideas” as he suggests in his interview on LEA New Media Exhibition: “Our duty is to look at adjacent possible worlds and thus expand human experience…”

Vuk Ćosić co-founded of Ljudmila –a digital media lab for artists in Slovenia and of the ASCII Art Ensemble, Nettime, Syndicate, 7-11, and Ljubljana Digital Media Lab. Pioneer in net art and new media art as well as hacktivism. Well known for running ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) variants of iconic film scenes thus transforming code, image and pixel into a collision and immediate commentary. Exhibitions include Venice Biennial; MIT Medialab and many other museums and festivals internationally.

Leonardo Electronic Almanac (LEA),  ISSN No: 1071-4391
LEA International Curatoriate:
Lanfranco Aceti & Christiane Paul (Senior Curators), Jeremy Hight (New Media Curator), Vince Dziekan (Digital Media Curator)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nr9A8Tq9GQ&feature=player_embedded
The Birds, 1998, Vuk Cosic. All images and video material are the copyright of the artist and cannot be used or altered in any way without the express consent of the artist

Lea New Media Exhibition Interview with Vuk Cosic

Lanfranco Aceti is known for his social activism and extensive career as artist, curator, and academic. He is a research affiliate and visiting professor at ACT @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the Arts Administration Program at Boston University. He is also the Editor in Chief of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac, The MIT Press. He has exhibited numerous personal projects including Car Park, a public performance in the UK at the John Hansard Gallery; Who The People?, an installation artwork acquired in its entirety by the Chetham’s Library and Museum in Manchester; Sowing and Reaping, installation artworks acquired in their entirety by the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Cyprus; and Hope Coming On, a site-specific choral performance he designed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with the collaboration of the Boston Children’s Chorus, and realized in front of Turner’s Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On). In 2017, Aceti prepared a series of new artworks for an exhibition entitled Shimmer and curated by Irini Papadimitriou (V&A) at the Tobazi Mansion in Hydra, a new large choral performance titled Accursed for the Thessaloniki Biennial in Greece; and Knock, Knock, Knocking a public space installation in the Mediterranean Garden Pavilion of the New Sea Waterfront of Thessaloniki.