ABOUT

Characters ASCII

Characters ASCII is the working alias of a Greece-based artist whose practice spans conceptual photography, queer digital art, and obsolete coding systems. Using original erotic imagery, each artwork is translated into ASCII characters—reviving a format once used for early web graphics to encode memory, intimacy, and queer resistance.

These ASCII-based compositions are printed on salvaged dot-matrix paper in limited editions of three per colorway. Through their tactile surfaces and language-based forms, the works transform technical output into sacred artifact—recalling digital interfaces of the 1990s while gesturing toward contemporary queer archiving.

By remaining anonymous, the artist maintains an intentional distance from institutional identity, inviting viewers instead into an intimate zone of ritualized looking. Characters ASCII marks a return to a time when digital bodies were both hidden and revealed—an erotic code-based artwork series that insists on tenderness within technological constraints.