Fluorescent rabbit eduardo kac biography wikipedia

Eduardo Kac born July 3, [ 1 ] is a Brazilian and American contemporary artist whose portfolio encompasses various forms of art including performance art , poetry, holography , interactive art , digital and online art, and BioArt. Recognized for his space art and transgenic works, Kac works with biotechnology to create organisms with new genetic attributes.

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Kac was born July 3, , in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil. Kac began his art career in as a performance artist in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In he created his first digital work and in he invented holopoetry, exploring holography as an interactive art form. In he began creating animated poetic works on the French Minitel platform. Throughout the s Kac created telecommunications artworks, using media such as fax, television, and slow scan TV.

In Kac created his first work of telepresence art, in which he used robots to bridge two or more physical locations. During the s he continued to produce these works, expanding his practice with works of interspecies communications. Kac coined the term "bio art". Early notable works include "Genesis" , where Kac translated a Genesis line into morse code and subsequently into DNA base pair and "GFP Bunny" , where an albino rabbit was genetically altered with a jellyfish gene, causing it to emit a green glow under specific light conditions.

This piece ignited extensive debates on the ethical implications of altering life forms for artistic purposes.