Deep Throat ASCII by Vuk Cosic 1998

"We decided to use a porno film because of the close ups...You can use an image with alot of detail, but it will not render well in ASCII. Close ups in the porn industry are about 75 percent of the visual content...They are good for ASCII. Then of course: which porn movie? That was pretty clear. First, Deep Throat is the only really well known porno movie. Second, it's a twenty-five-year-old film so it has a history...Then there is the whole thing about pornography being a hidden industry, nobody really talks about it, it is not for kids, it is not for decent people, but actually the economy of pornography is quite serious. Pornography makes up about 50 percent of internet contents and traffic...I did some historical research and discovered a very beautiful coincidence. You probably know of the game Pong, the first computer game. Like Deep throat in the porn industry, Pong was the first commercially successful mass product that triggered the entire industry. The game industry in America has earned more than the film industry, for three, four years in a row now. It just outgrew cinematography. Still, it is slightly hidden. It is out in the open, it is not immoral but it is not treated as art or anything serious. Its economy makes it pretty serious in my opinion. Here comes the coincidence: those two things. Deep Throat and pong were launched in the same month and year: June 1972. I put Pong hardware and Deep ASCII software together to underline the birth in June 1972 (of) a new civilisation"

Vuk Cosic in an interview with Josephine Bosma in 1999 for ezine Telepolis.

Text taken from Internet Art by Rachel Greene, 2004.