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Alexei Shulgin - born in Moscow, artist, curator, founder of the “Immediate Photography” group, teaches photography and contemporary art at the United Art Workshops in Moscow. Starting with 1994 he begun working intensively on net.art and create an electronic photo-gallery “Hot Pictures”, founded WWWArt Centre in Moscow, conceived Form Art, started up the Easylife site. He took part in more than 60 exhibitions and numerous symposia on photography/contemporary art/new media/communications. He’s the author and curator of numerous Internet projects. Numerous Croatian media presented Shulgin’s art work “FuckU-FuckME” (web presentation of a non-existing product), as a real commercial product for cybersex. During the first month of the site’s existence Alexei received 17000 orders. 1998 he founded the world’s first cyberpunk rock band 386DX. Vuk Ćosić - born in Belgrade, graduated in archeology, since 1991 lives and creates visual diversions, shuttling between Ljubljana and Trst. Since 1995 he is an active member of LJUDMILA – Ljubljana Digital Media Lab. He works on the ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) art. The project “ASCII Architecture” (June 2000) consists from the conversion of a photography of St. George Hall in Liverpool into an ASCII picture and the projections of that same ASCII picture in its natural size at the faces of St. George Hall. In April 2000 he presented in Amsterdam an “Instant ASCII Camera” that, similar to a photo-booth-machine, prints out an ASCII portrait of the person in front of the lens. In the “ASCII history of moving images” he converted films such as “Deep Throat”, “Star Wars” and “King Kong” into the ASCII standard Blaženko Karešin - Karo - throughout his life his interests shifted between astronomy, music (renown Zagreb fusion band “voodoobuddha", scores for choir and orchestra he wrote while at the fine arts academy, electronic trio "reefer madness"), astrology, writing (e.g. Arkzin) and arts. At the time he lives and works in Amsterdam. |