vuk cosic

Classic of digital strategist and whatnot.

[vuk cosic @supperman]

When I see posts beginning with "It is a great honour for me to be included..." I generally start thinking of murder, but here I am, in this stupid position that I really think this is a readable interview by the unstoppable @postanika. All you have to do now is click & read.

[anika meier @postanika]

In conversation with Vuk Ćosić (@supperman) for SLEEK
The Internet After Failed Utopias

AM What are your thoughts when you hear a new generation of artists saying, »We’re going to democratize the art world. We don’t need gatekeepers. We don’t need institutions«?

VC It’s a little sad because I literally recognize sentences from our manifestos or posts written in the middle of the night, and I see them again today, as if we were speaking about the same utopian possibilities. I don’t buy it.

That rhetoric was abused by network speculation, especially by NFT people. The rhetoric of liberation, zero gatekeepers, or disintermediation was captured by the crypto crowd because they have a use for an active, participating audience of creators. NFT artists are slightly trapped by that rhetoric. It’s not their text. It’s the text of the Bitcoin people, or blockchain people in general.

But if there are kids out there who believe in it, and they generate work while believing in it and trying to make it happen, then it may be good. Maybe it’s like a useful psychosis.

[vuk cosic @supperman]

@kimasendorf I once did a file for a player that doesn't exist. It was liberating.

[vuk cosic @supperman]

RT @postanika: right click news: @alexestorick invited me to share a few words about »inferior« image by shl0ms

»what interests me is that…

[vuk cosic @supperman]

@halecar2 I sometimes say NFT is reality https://t.co/Mms2pM4Q9I, but that is not exactly fair because some of the principles you described apply also to the nineties generation (early canon, piling of curators and collectors...).
[appreciate the trucks, btw, respect-o!]

[vuk cosic @supperman]

@postanika Strangely, this appears in many sources. Even by people that knew all of us and could have checked. But who's gonna doubt such a romantic story?

[vuk cosic @supperman]

Very much true --- Pit is to blame, as we have all been repeating since day one, but somehow Alexei's nettime post was sexier:
https://t.co/JTOlpws3JA

[anika meier @postanika]

Vuk Ćosić is credited with having coined the term https://t.co/PfN23JeW5H. Well, apparently that was a hoax, Vuk Ćosić claimed when we spoke.

»We happened to like practical humor, pranks, and hoaxes, so in a sense, it rhymed with our attitude. That was a hoax piece by Alexei Shulgin on our mailing list, nettime, and he invented a story that I had received an email that was totally garbled, and in it, I saw some stuff that looked useful.

Pit Schultz suggested this name, and we loved it because it made dot art like dot doc, you know, like a file extension, like a Word file. And we said, ›Oh, this is cute,‹ and we liked it, and we accepted it, let’s say, as the label.«

– Vuk Ćosić (@supperman)

[ArtMeta @artmetaofficial]

Vuk Ćosić: "Political satire, hoaxes, pranks, and all kinds of provocations were... the overture for us to implicitly realize that critical media art is what we were striving for. And that is the difference between... early https://t.co/1dcgaTeO8p and later digital art..."

Digital Masterpieces: From Code to Canon, debuting at @ArtBasel's Zero 10, Basel (June 16 – 21, 2026). Above quote from Anika Meier, in conversation with Vuk Ćosić for SLEEK, May 21 2026.

[anika meier @postanika]

Vuk Ćosić is credited with having coined the term https://t.co/PfN23JeW5H. Well, apparently that was a hoax, Vuk Ćosić claimed when we spoke.

»We happened to like practical humor, pranks, and hoaxes, so in a sense, it rhymed with our attitude. That was a hoax piece by Alexei Shulgin on our mailing list, nettime, and he invented a story that I had received an email that was totally garbled, and in it, I saw some stuff that looked useful.

Pit Schultz suggested this name, and we loved it because it made dot art like dot doc, you know, like a file extension, like a Word file. And we said, ›Oh, this is cute,‹ and we liked it, and we accepted it, let’s say, as the label.«

– Vuk Ćosić (@supperman)

[vuk cosic @supperman]

@madebyoona @postanika Thanks thanks
Salutes from here

[vuk cosic @supperman]

@postanika @mccoyspace @Miltos too cool :))

[vuk cosic @supperman]

@mccoyspace @Miltos @postanika Thanks man, @postanika is a beast, she did all the work.

[vuk cosic @supperman]

@_KarenHao Great list!
Plese consider this:
https://t.co/5iJb2XxsxZ

[vuk cosic @supperman]

Today the world is celebrating 30 years since the https://t.co/Mms2pM4Q9I per se conference.
I want to thank everyone for kind messages.

[vuk cosic @supperman]

@Noahbolanowski Here, with Olia Lialina and Domenico Quaranta at the opening. The AI labels are from some tool from 2-3 years ago.
There's also a video somewhere of me pretending to be Hans Ubermorgen, explaining that piece behind me.

[anika meier @postanika]

Platforming Vuk Ćosić (@supperman) next after @SHL0MS. Vuk was the inevitable next person in that lineage. (He’ll be part of Zero 10 by Art Basel through the Digital Masterpieces booth.)

AM: Your utopia as artists was that you did not need to rely on institutions and curators.

VC: This is by now part of the vernacular. We knew we didn’t need to talk to people like you. Educated people, terrible.

We all had https://t.co/Bp0KOd5uXH histories in confrontational art practices. When you are this hyped-up person with a Molotov in one hand and a spray can in the other, writing graffiti, you are completely self-sufficient.

[vuk cosic @supperman]

@SHL0MS @postanika @sleekmag You familiar w LHOOQ raseé? I see nice rhyme.

[vuk cosic @supperman]

@SHL0MS Much greatness

[vuk cosic @supperman]

@CarissaVeliz Shown this in class at Brera yesterday, at least the artists understand.

[vuk cosic @supperman]

@artmetaofficial Knowlton remains my hero.
Seen his Utah Teapot?