Eduardo Kac

Most Recent Affiliation(s):

School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Art and Technology

ISEA Bio(s) Available:

ISEA2022

Eduardo Kac (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1962) 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 piece entitled Genesis (1999), which included an “artist’s gene” he invented, and then with “GFP Bunny,” 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, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, and Seoul Museum of Art. Kac’s work has been showcased in biennials such as Yokohama Triennial, Biennial of the End of the World, Ushuaia, Gwangju Biennale, Bienal de Sao Paulo, International Triennial of New Media Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, and Bienal de Habana. His work is in the permanent collections of the Tate, London, the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Frac Occitanie—Regional collections of contemporary art, Les Abattoirs—Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Toulouse, the Museum of Modern Art of Valenci, Spain, the ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, and the Museum of Contemporary Art of São Paulo, among others. 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. http://www.ekac.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduardo_Kac
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ISEA97

Eduardo Kac, panel co-chair, is an artist and writer who works with electronic and photonic media. His work has been exhibited widely in the United States, Europe, and South America. Kac’s works belong to the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Holography in Chicago,and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, among others. He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Leonardo, published by MIT Press. His anthology, New Media Poetry: Poetic Innovation and New Technologies, was published in 1996 as a special issue of the journal Visible Language, of which he was a guest editor. His writings on electronic art have appeared in several books and journals in many countries, including Australia, Austria, Brazil, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Russia, United Kingdom, and United States. He is an Assistant Professor of Art and Technology at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has received numerous grants and awards for his work.

ISEA95

Eduardo Kac is Assistant professor of New Media in the Department of Art, University of Kentucky, he has participated in numerous exhibitions and festivals including Interface 3 Symposium (Hamburg), Siggraph ’95, and Ars Electronica (Linz). His work has also been shown at the Museum of Holography (New York), Museum of Modern Art (Rio de Janeiro), and Kunstlerhaus (Graz, Austria).

FISEA’93

Eduardo Kac, Artist and writer, Chicago, USA

TISEA

Eduardo Kac is internationally recognized for his telepresence and bio art. A pioneer of telecommunications art in the pre-Web ’80s, Eduardo Kac 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).