Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. Eduardo kac, brazilian american artist who was best known for his works featuring genetically altered organisms in ways that frequently had conceptual or symbolic import. A pioneer of telecommunications art in the preweb 80s, eduardo kac pronounced katz emerged in the early 90s with his radical works combining telerobotics and living organisms. The school of the art institute professor has pushed boundariesand buttonsthroughout his career. Since the early 1980s, eduardo kac has pioneered new art forms to create poetry and art that expand the limits of locality, light, language, and life. Alba was the name of a genetically modified glowing rabbit created as an artistic work by contemporary artist eduardo kac, produced in collaboration with french geneticist louismarie houdebine.
His visionary integration of robotics, biology and networking explores the fluidity of subject positions in the postdigital. Eduardo kacs gfp bunny incites debate about ethics of transgenic art. Alba is undoubtedly a very special animal, but i want to be clear that her formal and genetic uniqueness are but. Video, holografia, programacao, dispositivos portateis e internet. Feb 18, 2015 for the midterm assignment i wrote about eduardo kac and his gfp bunny alba and the social, cultural, and ethical implications of genetic engineering and the issues raised by bioart. In 1997, kac was one of the first human beings to have a rfid microchip implanted in his body.
Il a donc demande quon lui prete alba pour pouvoir le photographier et illustrer son site internet. Artista, scrittore, ricercatore e dottorando presso il centre for advanced inquiry in interactive arts caiia della university of wales, newport, nel regno unito. Eduardo kac, transgenic bunny alba, this rabbits genes were splices with a glowinthedark jellyfish he was going to use her for. Eduardo kac shop alternate projects shop unique art. Herberger college of fine arts at arizona state university, 2003. He has integrated many disciplines to present an imaginative view of arts relevance to the contemporary world, a view that has firm roots in the artists background in philosophy and literature. Cypher is also a doityourself transgenic kit, so its an artwork that is many things at. Kac is a contemporary artist internationally recognized for his interactive net installations, telepresence and bioart.
Eduardo kac commence sa carriere par des performances publiques hebdomadaires, dont porn poetry performance 1982 2. Eduardo kac is internationally recognized for his telepresence and bio art. The theory and practice of bio art, a new art form that uses the materials and processes of biotechnology, with examples of work by such prominent artists as eduardo kac and marc quinn. Galerie charlot, 47 rue charlot 75003 paris, france i 14 kikar kedumim tel avivyafo, israel galerie charlot presents a solo exhibition by eduardo kac of his transgenic work gfp bunny, created by the artist in. These works include a green fluorescent rabbit, a synthetic gene built on a morse code translation of a sentence from the book of genesis, and a. Alba was meant to live with kac s family as a pet, but the laboratory refused to release her, and the loss of alba. Eduardo kac artiste galerie charlot art contemporain, paris. Le lapin transgenique, soidisant concu par kac etait en fait realise par.
Eduardo kac genesis genesis 199899 is a transgenic artwork that explores the intricate relationship between biology, belief systems, information technology, dialogical interaction, ethics, and the internet. Eduardo kac, the artist who created a flurry by making her a work of art, doesnt buy it, however first, alba s not 4, shes 212, kac says a rabbits lifespan is up to 12 years, because she. It includes contributions from artists and writers from several countries in a variety of forms visual poetry, essay, cartoon, collage, graphic narrative, photography, rubber stamp, typewriting drawing, and photocopy. Genesis genesis is a transgenic artwork that explores the intricate relationship between biology, belief systems, information technology, dialogical interaction, ethics, and the internet. His artwork challenges science, art, ethics, and just about anything else one can imagine. Bio art is a new art form that has emerged from the cultural impact and increasing accessibility of contemporary biotechnology. The socalled alba i never gave any name to my experimental animals died in july. Eduardo kac est internationalement reconnu pour ses oeuvres interactives sur le net et sa pratique en bio art. Kac eduardo edueda the educational encyclopedia of. Rabbit remix reune a documentacao e os resultados da mobilizacao free alba.
Cypher 2009 is an artwork that merges sculpture, artists book and a diy. Biology and genetics has not only been a hot topic in the areas of research and medicine, but also in the art world. Abstract time capsule is a workexperience that lies somewhere between a local eventinstallation, a sitespecific work in which the site itself is both my body and a remote database, a simulcast on tv and the web, and interactive webscanning of my body. Calling eduardo kac pronounced katz unconventional is an understatement of grand proportion. The key element of the work is an artists gene, a synthetic gene that was created by kac by translating a sentence from the biblical book of genesis into morse code, and converting the morse code into dna base pairs according to a conversion principle specially developed by the artist for this work. Eduardo kac is an american contemporary artist internationally recognized for his interactive net installations and his bioart. He termed these endeavours bio art or transgenic art. This gene was created by translatinga sentence from the biblical book of. He is particularly well known for his works that integrate biotechnology, politics and aesthetics.
Depois da exposicao, a sequencia foi codificada novamente em ingles e o resultado publicado por kac em seu website. Signs of life is the first book to focus exclusively on art that uses. Houdebine used the gfp gene found in the jellyfish, aequorea victoria, that fluoresces green when exposed to blue light. Therefore, the book entitled telepresence, biotelem atics, transgenic. Institute for studies in the arts, the katherine k.
1171 618 116 141 510 480 1055 781 1151 256 905 1320 869 905 1331 400 1078 82 1040 42 1285 26 1498 904 34 158 176 1270 1035 588 937 1282 610 1285 1357 228 111 4 457 333 1167 354 445 1198 1138 266 615 272 1104 334 899