»Biopoetry (series/concept 1999-present)« 
Light Box
Light Box
© Photo: Jacques Donguy
Artist: Eduardo Kac, "Erratum I", biopoem, 23 X 19" ( 58.4 X 48.2 cm), 2006. Commissioned by Biennale Internationale des Poètes en Val-de-Marne (BIPVAL) [Poetry Biennial, France].
Keywords
Information
Eduardo Kac >
»Biopoetry (series/concept 1999-present)«, 1999 - 2009
Co-Workers & Funding:
See Also (works): "Genesis", "Erratum 1", "Cypher"Manifesto:
http://www.ekac.org/biopoetry.html
Technology
Material
DNA, Ecosystems, Amino Acids, Carbon Nanotubes
Descriptions & Essays
Eduardo Kac 25-05-2022
The biopoem "Erratum I" is what Kac calls a "biotope", that is, a living work that changes in response to internal metabolism and environmental conditions, including temperature, relative humidity, airflow, and light levels in the exhibition space. It is literally a self-sustaining ecology comprised of countless very small living beings in a medium of earth, water, and other materials. Kac orchestrates the metabolism of this diverse microbial life in order to produce the constantly-evolving living work, a poem that evolves and eventually effaces itself to generate new, unpredictable forms.
Eduardo Kac: Biopoetry (series/concept 1999-present), 25-05-2022, in: Archive of Digital Art The biopoem "Erratum I" is what Kac calls a "biotope", that is, a living work that changes in response to internal metabolism and environmental conditions, including temperature, relative humidity, airflow, and light levels in the exhibition space. It is literally a self-sustaining ecology comprised of countless very small living beings in a medium of earth, water, and other materials. Kac orchestrates the metabolism of this diverse microbial life in order to produce the constantly-evolving living work, a poem that evolves and eventually effaces itself to generate new, unpredictable forms.
Literature
Kac, Eduardo. Biopoetry. Berlin: AcquAvivA, 2016.
Kac, Eduardo. »Biopoetry.« http://www.ekac.org/biopoetry.html.
Masucci, Lello and Lello Masucci, ed. Officina di Letteratura Elettronica. Naples: Atelier Multimediale Editirce, 2011.
Dencker, Klaus Peter. Optische Poesie. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2011.
Glaser, Stephanie A., ed. Media inter Media: Intermediality in the Arts. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2009.
Kac, Eduardo. Hodibis Potax. Ivry-sur-Seine: Action poétique, 2007.
José Augusto Mourão. »Arte e Comunicação.« Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens (2007): 11-16.
Ascott, Roy. Engineered Nature: art and consciousness in the post-biological era.. Bristol: Intellect Books, 2006.
Christiane Heibach and Karin Wenz, ed. p0es1s: The Aesthetics of Digital Poetry. Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2004.
Markku Eskelinen and Raine Koskimaa, ed. Cybertext Yearbook 2002-03. Finland: University of Jyvaskyla, 2003.
Alberto Saraiva. Poesia Visual. f10 th ed.Rio de Janeiro: Oi Futuro e Editora, 2003.
Exhibitions & Events
2006
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