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ASCII Art
Images built up out of alphanumeric characters




Rosaire J. Belanger:
George Washington, 1939



Menno Fast: Flag, 1948



H. Philip Peterson:
Digital Mona Lisa, 1964



Kenneth Knowlton & Leon Harmon: Studies in Perception, 1966



[Detail]



WA6PIR (Don Royer):
Richard M. Nixon, 1970



Bernard Demiaux: Capture "Canal Énergie", 1991



Vuk Cosic: Deep ASCII, 1998
[Still from ASCII Movie]



Vuk Cosic:
Photo by Instant ASCII Camera, 1999



Vuk Cosic: Venus
[From: ASCII for the Blind]



References:

H.P. Peterson: "The Digital Mona Lisa." Computers and Automation XIV (1965).

Pierre Restany: Les Objets-plus et leurs présentations informationelles par Bernard Demiaux. Paris: La Différance, 1989.

   



Directly related work:

  Halftone Art (Lichtenstein, Polke, Jacquet)      

  Pixel Grids (Harmon, Winiarski, Close)  

  Photo Mosaics (Silvers, Blake)      

 

Compliled by Remko Scha, 2006