Vuk Ćosić

Part 1

The Influencers 2006

Vuk Ćosić

Part 1

Introducing net.art
A difference between Research and Development
"I wanna be up to date!" - Shifts of formats every 3 years and manierismus
The concept of immediacy, the power of the middleman - "Now it's crap but made a lot of sense then"
The ecology of net.art

Vuk Ćosić

Part 2

The Metablink project: "For a while we were kings of the hill".
"We decided to give ourselves names".
A tiny beautiful revenge.

Vuk Ćosić

Part 3

Through Tetris to Malevitch: introducing the History of Art for Airports, the history of art in one breath!
Documenta Done. "A ready-made detournée: I've put art to the context!"
"I do the R [Research], let other people do the rest [Development]"

Vuk Ćosić

Part 4

The debate then was: Is net.art dead? Hey, we did our share, we have to do some new stuff!
I was trying to do non commodifiable art, just to be out of focus.
ASCII Art: redrawing the history of computer graphics as if there had been no computer graphics.
The History of Art for the Blind

Vuk Ćosić

Part 5

"So I stopped doing art"
"I don't think commissioned art is art"
History of Art for the Intelligence Community: "It's beautiful to see the history of art as interfaces"