Controversial Bio-Artist Eduardo Kac's New Award-Winning Transgenic “Edunia”
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Internationally controversial bio-artist Eduardo Kac, Brazilian-born and living in the US, is known for his 1999 groundbreaking transgenic artwork "Genesis", and attracted global attention in 2000 with “GFP Bunny” known as Alba, the fluorescent green rabbit.
On July 29 at 6 pm, Kac will give a talk in The Project Room for New Media at Chelsea Art Museum about his new transgenic work “Natural History of the Enigma”. It is a plantimal called “Edunia” that is a genetically-engineered flower hybrid of the artist and Petunia. The work is a poetic reflection on the contiguity of life between different species. In the context of the celebration of man’s first walk on the moon 40 years ago, the philosophy of the plantimal further stimulates the imagination to ponder what other life forms might exist or be created beyond earth. Kac will also discuss his video poem, "Reversed Mirror", on view in The Project Room for New Media until August 8.
“Natural History of the Enigma” has received the Golden Nica 2009 – the highest award given at the Prix Ars Electronica, the world’s premier cyberarts competition. Held annually by Ars Electronica, the international center for digital art and media culture in Linz, Austria, it is a barometer of the trends in media art.
To see “Natural History of the Enigma” go to streamingmuseum.org
on view in Streaming Museum’s network of cyberspace and public space on 7 continents through 9/14.
Eduardo Kac talk 7/29 at 6 PM
The Project Room for New Media at Chelsea Art Museum (CAM)
556 West 22nd St., NYC
212-255-0719
Free with museum admission
$8 adult $4 students/seniors.
Museum hours: Tuesday through Saturday 11am – 6pm, Thursdays to 8pm
“Reversed Mirror” on view through 8/8
chelseartmuseum.org for museum information
On July 29 at 6 pm, Kac will give a talk in The Project Room for New Media at Chelsea Art Museum about his new transgenic work “Natural History of the Enigma”. It is a plantimal called “Edunia” that is a genetically-engineered flower hybrid of the artist and Petunia. The work is a poetic reflection on the contiguity of life between different species. In the context of the celebration of man’s first walk on the moon 40 years ago, the philosophy of the plantimal further stimulates the imagination to ponder what other life forms might exist or be created beyond earth. Kac will also discuss his video poem, "Reversed Mirror", on view in The Project Room for New Media until August 8.
“Natural History of the Enigma” has received the Golden Nica 2009 – the highest award given at the Prix Ars Electronica, the world’s premier cyberarts competition. Held annually by Ars Electronica, the international center for digital art and media culture in Linz, Austria, it is a barometer of the trends in media art.
To see “Natural History of the Enigma” go to streamingmuseum.org
on view in Streaming Museum’s network of cyberspace and public space on 7 continents through 9/14.
Eduardo Kac talk 7/29 at 6 PM
The Project Room for New Media at Chelsea Art Museum (CAM)
556 West 22nd St., NYC
212-255-0719
Free with museum admission
$8 adult $4 students/seniors.
Museum hours: Tuesday through Saturday 11am – 6pm, Thursdays to 8pm
“Reversed Mirror” on view through 8/8
chelseartmuseum.org for museum information
