Eduardo Kac

28.09.2006 |



Eduardo Kac is internationally recognized for his interactive net installations and his bio art. A pioneer of telecommunications art in the pre-Web '80s, Eduardo Kac (pronounced "Katz") emerged in the early '90s with his radical telepresence and biotelematic works. His visionary combination of robotics 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 shocked the world with his "transgenic art" – first with a groundbreaking installation 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, and Lieu Unique, Nantes, France; OK Contemporary Art Center, Linz, Austria; InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo; Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago; Seoul Museum of Art, Korea; and Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro. Kac's work has been showcased in biennials such as Yokohama Triennial, Japan, Gwangju Biennale, Korea, and Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil. His work is part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York 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, The New York Times). The recipient of many awards, Kac lectures and publishes worldwide. His work is documented on the Web: http://www.ekac.org. Eduardo Kac is represented by Karpio + Facchini Gallery, Miami; Galerie J. Rabouan Moussion, Paris; Black Box Gallery, Copenhagen; and Laura Marsiaj Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro.

Recent Solo Shows
2006 “Genesis”, Karpio + Facchini Gallery, Miami
2006 “Eduardo Kac”, Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires
2005 “Move 36”, Galerie Biche de Bere, Paris
2004 “Rabbit Remix”, Laura Marsiaj Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro
2003 “Maybe Then, If Only As”, Butler Institute Of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
2002 “Free Alba!”, Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago
2001 “Genesis”, Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago
“The Eighth Day”, Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State University, Tempe


Bibliography (books)

Elena Giulia Rossi, ed. Eduardo Kac: Move 36. Paris: Filigranes Éditions, 2005.

Graciela Taquini (curator). Eduardo Kac: Obras Vivas y en Red, Fotografías y Otros Trabajos [Eduardo Kac: Online and Living Works, Photographs and other pieces]. Buenos Aires: Espacio Fundación Telefónica, 2006.

Sheilah Britton and Dan Collins, eds. The Eighth Day: The Transgenic Art of Eduardo Kac. Tempe: The Institute for Studies in the Arts, Arizona State University, 2003.

Peter Tomaz Dobrila and Aleksandra Kostic, eds. Eduardo Kac: Telepresence, Biotelematics, Transgenic Art. Maribor: Kibla, 2000.

Eduardo Kac. Telepresence and Bio Art – Networking Humans, Rabbits and Robots, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005.

Eduardo Kac. Luz & Letra. Ensaios de arte, literatura e comunicação [Light & Letter. Essays in art, literature and communication]. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Contra Capa, 2004.

Eduardo Kac, ed. Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006.

Eduardo Kac, ed. Media Poetry: Poetic Innovation and New Technologies, Bristol, United Kingdom: Intellect, 2006.


Recent group shows

2006
Singapore Biennial, Singapore
Laura Marsiaj Arte Contemporânea, Rio de Janeiro, “Coletiva”
Santander Cultural, Porto Alegre, “É Hoje - Na Arte Brasileira Contemporânea - Coleção Gilberto Chateaubriand"
“En las Fronteras/In Borderlines/La colección del MEIAC”, Museo d'arte contemporanea Villa Croce, Genova, Italy
Kunstraum Dornbirn, Austria, and Århus Kunstbygning, Århus, Denmark, “Destroyed Worlds and the Utopia of Reconstruction”
Observatori, Festival Internacional de Investigación Artística de Valencia / Observatori, International festival of artistic investigation, Valencia, Spain
University of Essex Gallery, United Kingdom, “Visual Poetry”
Aarhus Art Building, Aarhus, Denmark, “On the edge” (November 3 to November 26, 2006)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, “Artists and their families”

2005
MAXXI - Museum of Art for the XXI Century, Rome, “Tempo e Spazio Nell’Arte in Rete” Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, “Quando?”
Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid, “Move 36”
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, “Gilberto Chateaubriand’s Collection”
Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, “Reversed Mirror”
University Gallery, University of Essex, UK, “Subverting Reality”
Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, “Animal Nature”
Center for Art and New Technologies, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Island, Spain, “Move 36”
NIU Art Gallery, Chicago, “Re-form”

2004
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea, “Move 36”
XXVI Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil, “Move 36”
Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati Ohio, “drift:shift”
Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Minneapolis, “Genesis”
Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia, “Art of the Biotech Era”
Fundación Telefónica, Santiago de Chile, “Genesis”
Kunst und Kunstgewerbeverein, Pforzheim, Germany, “Face/off – Body Fantasies”
University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN “&NOW Festival”
Art Chicago, with Linda Schwartz Gallery, “Fossil Folds ”
Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil, “Emoção Artficial II”
Museo de Arte y Fundación Telefónica, Lima, “Genesis”
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, Illinois, “Genesis”

2003
16th Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media, Germany, “Defining Lines: <Breaking Down Borders>”
Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, “2080”
Scarfone/Hartley Gallery, University of Tampa, Tampa FL, “Electronics Alive”
Art Center Le Noroît, Arras, France, “Terminal Zone”
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, “American Dream: A Survey”
The Graduate Center Art Gallery, The City University Of New York, “DNAge”
Lieu Unique, Nantes, France, “L’Art Biotech”
Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago, “Works on Paper”
Centre international de poésie de Marseille, Marseille, France, “Terminal Zone”
International Artist’s Museum, Venice, “Wandering Library”
Contemporary Art Museum, Monterrey, Mexico, “Genesis”
La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain, “Humillación trauma y producción del sujeto contemporáneo”
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California, “Genesis”
Videobrasil, Sesc Pompéia, São Paulo, “Time Capsule”
Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles, Paris, “Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain” (FIAC)
Salle du quai Antoine 1er, Monaco, “Chimères, Monstres et Merveilles, de la Mythologie aux Biotechnologies”
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia, “Light from Shadow”
Itaú Cultural , São Paulo, Brazil, “A Subversão dos Meios”
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina, “Genesis”
Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, “Paris Photo 2003”
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, “Genesis”


2002
Museo de Arte Moderno de México, Mexico, “El Final del Eclipse”
Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie in Paris, “L’Homme Transformé”
Kunsthaus Merano Arte, Merano, Italy, “Eurovision - I Biennale d’Arte: DNArt; Transiti: Metamorfosi: Permanenze”
University Gallery, University of Essex, United Kingdom, “Transit”
Museu de Arte Moderna, Sala Città America, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, “Entre a Palavra e a Imagem”
Centre D’Art Contemporain, Hérouville-St-Clair, Normandy, France, “Poetry and New Media”
Deutschen Hygiene-Museums, Dresden, Germany, “Mensch und Tier. Eine paradoxe Beziehung”
Georgia Tech University, Atlanta, “TechnoPoetry Festival”
Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo, Brazil, “Portão 2”
Manifesta 4, Frankfurter Kunstverein, “Defining Lines”
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, “Festival d’art numérique@rt Outsiders”
Museo de Arte Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain, “El Final del Eclipse”
Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain, “El Final del Eclipse”

2001
Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan
Woodstreet Galleries, Pittsburgh, “Interactive Domains”
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany, “Beyond the Skin - Biological Metamorphosis in Contemporary Art”
San Francisco Art Institute, “Telematic Connections”
Austin Museum of Art, “Telematic Connections”
Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Woodruff Art Center, “Telematic Connections”
Oklahoma City Art Museum, “Telematic Connections”
Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum/California State University, San Bernardino, “Out of Context”
Itau Cultural, Sao Paulo, Brazil, “Luz na Arte Brasileira”
NY Center for Media Arts, New York, “Electronic Maple”
Tang Museum, Syracuse, New York, “Paradise Now”
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, “Kaohsiung International Container Arts Festival”
Thomas Blackman and Associates, Chicago, “The Stray Show”
China National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing, China, “Holopoetry”
Palacio de los Condes de Gabia, Granada, Spain, “El Final del Eclipse”

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