This is a second part of interview with M.B. Solano. Read the first part: Interview with Marlon Barrios Solano: Dancers moved by Technology
Photo: Amelia by LaLaLa Human Steps (c)
In the history of dance only few dancers and choreographers were considered as sort of tech related investigators…
With the expansion of new media art, the wider use of Internet, user friendly applications, multi-functionality of modern age, and the whole DIY scene that has grown up so fast; dancers and choreographers realized that technology could be a new challenging platform for them.
This is a second part of the interview with Vuk Cosic entitled ‘Small and big thingz on net + art’, as a continuation of ‘Small and big thingz on the internet and society…’
After you had a significant role in this huge explosion of net.art almost thirteen years ago…
VC: Yeah, I’m guilty! (laughs)
Yeah! (laughs) …we are witnessing now kids that are seriously messin’ with the code and doing some quality programming …
VC: And they do, yes!
To make an intro for Vuk Cosic is simply not an easy task for several reasons; it’s hard to make something original, because as a speaker at conferences, or a leisure talk conversation companion, he is always very intriguing and rarely in bad mood…
Second, I always get the impression that he has thousands small Vuks somewhere hidden in his head, calculating and creating some new ideas…
Third… OK, I give up, and I’m gonna make you a bit of classique intro…
Vuk Cosic has been ‘accused’ as the main suspect for creating in the mid 90’s a new form of art called the net.art. He is the one responsible for recognizing the potential and aesthetic aspect of the code by using ASCII programming in order to create an art piece based on computer generated calculations. Jointly with his digital ‘neighborhood’ gang that included Olia Lialina, Jodi.org, Alexei Shulgin and Heath Bunting, he moved the concept of 0’s and 1’s into more philosophical and socially oriented fields.
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