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About 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). Kacs 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; and Seoul Museum of Art Korea. Kac's work has been showcased in biennials including Yokohama Triennial Japan; Biennial of the End of the World and Bienal de Sao Paulo Brazil. His work is included in many permanent collections such as: the Tate London; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; and the Museum of Modern Art of Valencia among others. Kac's work has been featured both in contemporary art publications (Contemporary Flash Art Artforum ARTnews Kunstforum Tema Celeste Artpress NY Arts Magazine) contemporary art books (Phaidon Thames and Hudson Oxford MIT Press) and in the mass media (ABC BBC PBS Le Monde Boston Globe Washington Post Chicago Tribune New York Times). A professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago he lectures and publishes worldwide.