Eduardo kac bio arterial plus

Transmitting on live television and the internet, the artist implanted a digital microchip before a series of sepia coloured photographs that documented the life of his family in Europe previous to In this way, Kac became the first human carrier of a microchip.

The access to his laboratory and his colleagues gave me the opportunity to learn a lot about how research and work in molecular biology labs is conducted.

To celebrate its 10th anniversary and with the piece in its final form, including all the diverse original elements of this live performance, he activated a webcast and a web scanner to allow an interactive, tele-robotic tracing of the chip in internet. Eduardo Kac, Rio de Janeiro, 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 piece entitled Genesis , which included an "artist's gene" he invented, and then with "GFP Bunny," his fluorescent rabbit called Alba 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.