Ascii Art Ensemble di Walter van der Cruijsen
Intro
The group (Walter van der Cruijsen, Luka Frelih, Vuk Cosic) met in Amsterdam
to materialize an idea that was floating in meetings at various european
Internet conferences and festivals during the last three years. Basically
the big goal was to come up with a net based moving ascii. The premises
of Worldwide Video Festival were at our disposal for a week in august
1998, thanx.
Immediate Goals
The very first things to do were the most obvious ones - the javascript
and java players for moving ascii images.
http://www1.zkm.de/~wvdc/ascii/frames.html
http://www1.zkm.de/~wvdc/ascii/
Mid Term Goals
After the two players are done, the idea is to create a fast converter
that would enable us to create moving ascii in real time.
Long Term Goals
After bringing moving ascii to the net through the mentioned steps,
the final goal - or one of the next steps - is to create a RealPlayer
G2 plug-in with the new file type.
Contents Projects
0. ASCII to Speach history of art for the blind by applying the txt->speech
software.
http://www.vukcosic.org/ascii/blind/
1. History of Moving Images a series of seven clips giving the overview
of the evolution in style and the display and distribution media.
http://www.vukcosic.org/ascii/film/
2. Deep ASCII a version of Deep Throat in ascii is displayed on a Pong
Arcade, more here.
http://www.vukcosic.org/ascii/throat.htm
3. ASCII Wall is a project planned together with the good people of
Redundant Technologies and consists in creation of a a video wall of
old monitors in order to do larger projections.
http://www.lowtech.org/
4. MTV stream is about hooking any broadcast signal and streaming the
ascii version.
5. History of Silent Film on CD-ROM offering several milestone films
in full length.
ASCII Art Ensemble: Walter van der Cruijsen (wvdc@desk.org), Luka Frelih (luka@ljdumila.org), Vuk Cosic (vuk@ljdumila.org).
#2
http://www.desk.org/a/a/e/
What happened to the ascii
art ensemble?
We moved the original page (http://www.desk.org/a/a/e/first.html) --
too many new things have happened during the last 18 months. Hopefully
this page will be updated more frequently. Promised!
* free software:
The ascii art ensemble has been supporting the development of new free tools and software to create your own ascii media converter. Since the start several new projects have been started, more artists and programmers created new software and there were exhibitions, events and several public appearances.
First of all, the java-player. the original version, the asciimator was made by Luka Frelih. This player is public domain, so use it at your own risk. other players have been made by Thomax Kaulman and Andreas Schiffler, who wrote more beautiful sourcecodes. Note that this is really free software, which means that it is still licensed (gnu) but you are free to use it.
*asciimator. the java-player
by Luka Frelih.
Originally bundled with deep.ascii - meme of the week last week. The
asciimator.java source.
* ova-in-scii player. by
Thomax Kaulmann.
This is another java player, which handles .gz text-files. Thomax also
offers ascii mode at OVA.
* libbgrab-1.8 by Andreas
Schiffler - escape to begin
This archive contains a lot for handling your video input. Linux / c++
there are more things at the esc to begin website, there is a ascii
video+talk reflector, an asteroid-remake to hit textobjects.
* asciiMovie b1.0.9.app, a macintosh quicktime to ascii converter, by guillaume stagnaro - escape to begin. drag and drop your videoclip and save it to text. next step is to use the embedded application to convert streams, a quicktime plugin? macintosh / realbasic. ascii mode at the open video archive by thomax kaulmann - orang is server implementation. linux / real.
* older things
Pict2AsciiFAT 1.03 is an .pict image file to ascii converter for macintosh ppc. although it is stand-alone, it is scriptable and uses an engine, with which you can scriptwrite .gif files, like spreadsheets into diagramms. Somehow i have the idea that there is more to find.
* art media events:
net_condition, ZKM, Karlsruhe.
http://www.zkm.de/net_condition
exhibition from 22 september 1999 - 17 march 2000. there was an appearance
of the ascii art ensemble at 17 december. 2000.
collaborative art works, vienna? wenn was it? vuk handled this
vuk cosic had a
solo exhibiton in ljubljana. 'ascii history of art'
contemporary asci. exhibition and catalogue
http://www.ljudmila.org/~vuk/ascii/