This new exhibition, "Immersions Digitales"(Digital Immersions) presents a panorama of digital works based on the theme of Nature.
Living and digital matters are interrelated. The experience is a poetic, interactive, immersive one. Video art, digital photography, interactive landscapes, sound installations, 3D sculptures, design, artificial intelligence, bio-art, art of real-time fluxes... They connect forests to stock exchange values and make us listen...
This video has been published in the interactive version of Digitalarti Mag #2
Eduardo Kac is an artist whose practices are constantly shifting and recombining. He has designed robotic and interactive pieces, as well as remote presence works, before moving on to the body, as early as 1998, and defining what he would later call Transgenic Art. But he is also the author of research publications and various forms of poetry, using holographs, digital technology, and the biosciences.
GFP K-9
Everything really started in 1998, when Eduardo Kac wrote an article pro...
Lambda print on pearlescent paper / diasec, 38 x 38 cm 2005.
About Move 36:
Move 36 makes reference to the dramatic move made by the computer called Deep Blue against chess world champion Gary Kasparov in 1997. This competition may be characterized as a match between the greatest chess player who ever lived and the greatest chess player who never lived. The installation sheds light on the limits of the human mind and the increasing capabilities developed by computers and robots, inan...
"Move 36" makes reference to the dramatic move made by the computer called Deep Blue against chess world champion Gary Kasparov in 1997. This competition may be characterized as a match between the greatest chess player who ever lived and the greatest chess player who never lived. The installation sheds light on the limits of the human mind and the increasing capabilities developed by computers and robots, inanimate beings whose actions often acquire a force comparable to subje...
Move 36 (2002/04) -- "Move 36" explores the permeable boundaries between the human and the nonhuman, the living and the nonliving. The title of "Move 36" refers to the dramatic chess move made by computer Deep Blue against world champion Gary Kasparov in 1997 -- a chess match between the best player that ever lived and the best player that never lived.
The Eighth Day (2001) -- The Eighth Day is a transgenic artwork that investigates the new ecology of fluorescent creatures that is evolving worldwide. The Eighth Day was shown from October 25 to November 2, 2001 at the Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe. While fluorescent creatures are being developed in isolation in laboratories, seen collectively they form the nucleus of a new and emerging synthetic bioluminescent system.
GFP Bunny (2000) -- With GFP Bunny Kac welcomes Alba, the green fluorescent rabbit, and explains that transgenic art must be created "with great care, with acknowledgment of the complex issues at the core of the work and, above all, with a commitment to respect, nurture, and love the life thus created." The first phase of the GFP Bunny project was completed in February 2000 with the birth of "Alba" in Jouy-en-Josas, France.
Cypher (2009) is an artwork that merges sculpture, artist's book and a DIY transgenic kit. It measures approximately 13 x 17 " (33 x 43 cm) and is contained in a stainless steel slipcase. When removed from the case, the kit — itself also made of stainless steel — opens up in two halves, like a book. Inside the viewer/user finds a portable minilab. The kit contains Petri dishes, agar, nutrients, streaking loops, pipettes, test tubes, synthetic DNA (encoding in its genetic sequenc...
Uirapuru (1996/99), by Eduardo Kac, was shown from October 15 to November 28, 1999, at the InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo. A flying fish hovers above a forest in the gallery, responding to local as well as Web-based commands. Audio and video from its point of view are streamed on the Web. Local and remote participants interact with the avatar of the flying fish in a virtual world. When this happens the flying fish sings in the gallery. "Pingbirds" (robotic birds) sing...
JANUARY
Solo Exhibition, January 25
Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, "Eduardo Kac: Lagoglyphs, Biotopes and Transgenic Works" (January 25th to March 7th, 2010)
Solo Exhibition, January 27
Oi Futuro, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, "Digital Poetry" (January 27th to March 7th, 2010)
Solo Exhibition, January 28
Laura Marsiaj Gallery, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, "Pornograms: 1980-1982" (January 28th to March 13th, 2010)
Exhibition, April 17
Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kie...
Eduardo Kac is internationally recognized for his telepresence and bio art. A pioneer of telecommunications art in the pre-Web '80s, Eduardo Kac (pronounced "Katz") emerged in the early '90s with his radical works combining telerobotics and living organisms. His visionary integration of robotics, biology and networking explores the fluidity of subject positions in the post-digital world. His work deals with issues that range from the mythopoetics of online experience (Uirapuru) to the ...
Eduardo Kac official website
