»Eduardo Kac«
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 cultural impact of biotechnology (Genesis); from the changing condition of memory in the digital age (Time Capsule) to distributed collective agency (Teleporting an Unknown State); from the problematic notion of the "exotic" (Rara Avis) to the creation of life and evolution (GFP Bunny).
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).
2007
Mid-career survey at Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
2000 - 2001
Fellowship at Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe
1997
Fellow, Center for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts, University of Wales College, Newport, United Kingdom
1997
Member of the full-time faculty at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1990
Master of Fine Arts, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
1988
Studies at Universidade Federal, Rio de Janeiro
1986
Resident Artist at the Museum of Holography, New York
1985
Graduates at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
1983
Invention of Holopoetry
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Ph.D. research fellow at the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in Interactive Arts (CAiiA) at the University of Wales, Newport, United Kingdom
Mid-career survey at Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia, Spain
2000 - 2001
Fellowship at Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe
1997
Fellow, Center for Advanced Inquiry in the Interactive Arts, University of Wales College, Newport, United Kingdom
1997
Member of the full-time faculty at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1990
Master of Fine Arts, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
1988
Studies at Universidade Federal, Rio de Janeiro
1986
Resident Artist at the Museum of Holography, New York
1985
Graduates at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
1983
Invention of Holopoetry
0
Ph.D. research fellow at the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in Interactive Arts (CAiiA) at the University of Wales, Newport, United Kingdom