»Specimen of Secrecy about Marvelous Discoveries« 
Light Box
Light Box
© Collection Valerio Ferrari, Paris; Eduardo Kac
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Eduardo Kac >
»Specimen of Secrecy about Marvelous Discoveries«, 2006 - 2006
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Technology
Installation Requirements / Space
HullabalooBiotope, 19 X 23" (48.2 x 58.4 cm), 2006.
Collection Alfredo Herzog da Silva, São Paulo.
Oblivion
Biotope, 19 X 23" (48.2 x 58.4 cm), 2006.
Theorem
Biotope, 19 X 23" (48.2 x 58.4 cm), 2006.
Private collection, Rio de Janeiro.
Apsides
Biotope, 19 X 23" (48.2 x 58.4 cm), 2006.
Collection Valerio Ferrari, Paris
Clairvoyance
Biotope, 19 X 23" (48.2 x 58.4 cm), 2006.
Odissey
Biotope, 19 X 23" (48.2 x 58.4 cm), 2006.
Private collection, Rio de Janeiro
Doohickey
Biotope, 46 X 37.4" (117 x 95 cm), 2009.
Descriptions & Essays
… is a series of works comprised of what Kac calls "biotopes", that is, living pieces that change during the exhibition in response to internal metabolism and environmental conditions. Each of Kac's biotopes is literally a self-sustaining ecology comprised of thousands of very small living beings in a medium of earth, water, and other materials. The artist orchestrates the metabolism of these organisms in order to produce his constantly-evolving living works.
Literature
Kac, Eduardo. »Telepresence Art and Net Ecology.« In The Robot in the Garden: Telerobotics and Telepistemology on the Internet, edited by Ken Goldberg. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.
Kac, Eduardo and Marcel.li Antunez Roca. »Robotic Art.« Leonardo Electronic Almanac 5, no. 5 (May 1997).
Kac, Eduardo. »Interactive Art on the Internet.« In Ars Electronica 1995. Welcome to the Wired World, edited by Peter Weibel and Karl Gerber, 170-179. Wien, New York: Springer Verlag, 1995.
Exhibitions & Events
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2009
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