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Eduardo Kac

Eduardo Kac is internationally recognized for his interactive artworks using telepresence and his practice in BioArt. 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.

At the dawn of the twenty-first century Kac opened a new direction for contemporary art with his "transgenic art"--first with a groundbreaking transgenic work entitled Genesis (1999), which included an "artist's gene" he invented, and then with his fluorescent rabbit called Alba (2000).

Kac’s work has been exhibited internationally at venues such as Exit Art and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York; Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid; Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai; and Seoul Museum of Art, Korea. Kac's work has been showcased in biennials such as Yokohama Triennial, Japan, Biennial of the End of the World, Ushuaia, Argentina, Gwangju Biennale, Korea, Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil, and International Triennial of New Media Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing.

His work is part of the permanent collection of the MoMa, New York; Tate, London; Victoria & Albert Museum, London; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art of Valencia, Spain; the ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe, Germany, and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, among others.

Kac's work has been featured both in contemporary art publications (Flash Art, Artforum, ARTnews, Kunstforum, Tema Celeste, Artpress, NY Arts Magazine) and in the mass media (ABC, BBC, PBS, Le Monde, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, New York Times). Kac has received many awards, including the Golden Nica Award, the most prestigious award in the field of media arts and the highest prize awarded by Ars Electronica. He lectures and publishes worldwide. His work is documented on the Web in eight languages: http://www.ekac.org.

Kac is a member of the editorial board of the journal Leonardo, published by MIT Press. Kac's writings on art, which have appeared in several books and periodicals in many countries, have been collected in two volumes: Telepresence and Bio Art : Networking Humans, Rabbits and Robots (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005) and Luz & Letra (Rio de Janeiro: Contra Capa, 2004). Kac's poetry is collected in Hodibis Potax (Édition Action Poétique, Ivry-sur-Seine (France) and Kibla, Maribor (Slovenia), 2007). Books about Kac's work include: Eduardo Kac : Move 36, Elena Giulia Rossi, editor (Paris : Filigranes Éditions, 2005), The Eighth Day: The Transgenic Art of Eduardo Kac, Sheilah Britton and Dan Collins, eds. (Tempe: ISA/ASU -- New York: DAP, 2003) and Eduardo Kac (Valencia: IVAM, 2007).

From his first experiments online in 1985 to his current convergence of the digital and the biological, Kac has always investigated the philosophical and political dimensions of communication processes. Equally concerned with the aesthetic and the social aspects of verbal and non-verbal interaction, in his work Kac examines linguistic systems, dialogic exchanges, and interspecies communication. Kac's pieces, which often link virtual and physical spaces, propose alternative ways of understanding the role of communication phenomena in creating shared realities.

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Inner Telescope

by Eduardo Kac

2017

Inner Telescope

by Eduardo Kac

Video
5 copies
12 minutes
2017

Ground-based Research

by Eduardo Kac

From the Inner Telescope series
C-print on archival paper
5 copies
50 x 75cm
2014

Space Poetry embroideries (from the Inner Telescope series)

by Eduardo Kac

Thread on linen, frame
22,8 x 33 cm
2017

Space Poetry

by Eduardo Kac

Multicolor risograph artist’s book with onlay embroidered patch, signed and numbered.
100 copies
19,5 x 25 cm
2016

ISS #71904

by Eduardo Kac

16 pgs., metallic silver ink on black paper (offset) artist’s book, signed and numbered.
100 copies
19 x 26 cm
2017

Performance for one astronaut, one pair of scissors and two sheets of paper (from the Inner Telescope series)

by Eduardo Kac

Dye-based black ink on acid-free 24 lb. Hammermill paper
21.6 x 27.9 cm each
2015

Aromapoetry

by Eduardo Kac

Artist's book with box and slipcase, twelve custom-made aromas enmeshed in a nanolayer of mesoporous glass, letterpress text and graphics, 16 2ml vial...
10/10 signed and numbered by the artist
11.69" x 8.27" x 2"
2014

Aromapoetry

by Eduardo Kac

Artist's book with box and slipcase, twelve custom-made aromas enmeshed in a nanolayer of mesoporous glass, letterpress text and graphics, 16 2ml vial...
10/10 signed and numbered by the artist
11.69" x 8.27" x 2"
2014

Aromapoetry

by Eduardo Kac

2014

Osmobox

by Eduardo Kac

Olfactory work
Lacquered wood, motor, unique olfactory composition
Unique piece
54 x 35 x 13 cm
2014

Osmobox

by Eduardo Kac


Osmobox drawing #3

by Eduardo Kac

Preparatory work
Mixed media
2014

Osmobox drawing #8

by Eduardo Kac

Preparatory work
Mixed media
2014

Osmobox drawing #6

by Eduardo Kac

Preparatory work
Mixed media
2014

Osmobox drawing #16

by Eduardo Kac

Preparatory work
Mixed media
2014

Osmobox drawing #18

by Eduardo Kac

Preparatory work
Mixed media
2014

Osmobox drawing #15

by Eduardo Kac

Preparatory work
Mixed media
2014

Osmobox drawing #13

by Eduardo Kac

Preparatory work
Mixed media
2014

Osmobox drawing #14

by Eduardo Kac

Preparatory work
Mixed media
2014

Osmobox drawing #1

by Eduardo Kac

Preparatory work
Mixed media
2014

Osmobox drawing #5

by Eduardo Kac

Preparatory work
Mixed media
2014

Plantimal I (Edunia) - Natural history of the enigma

by Eduardo Kac

Print on diasec
3 copies + 1 AP
42 x 42 cm
2009

Plantimal II (Edunia) - Natural history of the enigma

by Eduardo Kac

Print on diasec
3 copies + 1 AP
42 x 42 cm
2009

Plantimal III (Edunia) -Natural history of the enigma

by Eduardo Kac

Print on diasec
3 copies + 1 AP
42 x 42 cm
2009

Plantimal IV (Edunia) - Natural history of the enigma

by Eduardo Kac

Print on diasec
3 copies + 1 AP
42 x 42 cm
2009

Plantimal V (Edunia) - Natural history of the enigma

by Eduardo Kac

Print on diasec
3 copies + 1 AP
42 x 42 cm
2009

Plantimal VI (Edunia) - Natural history of the enigma

by Eduardo Kac

Print on diasec
3 copies + 1 AP
42 x 42 cm
2009

Reabracadabra

by Eduardo Kac

Minitel artwork
Edition of three
9.64 x 9.8 x 9.64 in (24,5 x 25 x 24,5 cm
1985

Lagoglyphs

by Eduardo Kac

Porcelain
15 x 15 x 4 cm

Lagoglyph Cryptoanimation

by Eduardo Kac

Video in loop
Ed 1/3

GFP Bunny - Poster
Nature

by Eduardo Kac

Print on paper
56 x 86 cm
2000

GFP Bunny - Poster
Médias

by Eduardo Kac

Print on paper
56 x 86 cm
2000

GFP Bunny
Performance

by Eduardo Kac

2000

GFP Bunny - Poster
Famille

by Eduardo Kac

Print on paper
56 x 86 cm
2000

GFP Bunny - Poster
Religion

by Eduardo Kac

Print on paper
56 x 86 cm
2000

GFP Bunny - Poster
Science

by Eduardo Kac

Print on paper
56 x 86 cm
2000

GFP Bunny - Poster
Art

by Eduardo Kac

Print on paper
56 x 86 cm
2000

Tour à tour et parfois en même temps

by Eduardo Kac

Watercolor pencil on watercolor paper
16 x 20 cm
2002

L’heure est venue

by Eduardo Kac

Watercolor pencil on watercolor paper
16 x 20 cm
2001

Dorénavant

by Eduardo Kac

Watercolor pencil on watercolor
Unique piece
16 x 20 cm
2001

Free Alba! (New York Times) From GFP

by Eduardo Kac

Bunny series

Tirage contrecollé sur aluminium avec plexiglas
0/5
91,4 x 118 cm
2001-2002

Alba, 7, New York Times, Eduardo Kac

by Eduardo Kac

Fluorescent GFP Bunny
2000