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This piece operates a dramatic reversal of the regulated unidirectional model imposed by broadcasting standards and the communications industry. Rather than transmitting a specific message from one point to many passive receivers, "Teleporting an Unknown State" creates a new situation in which several individuals in remote countries transmit light to a single point in the gallery space. The ethics of Internet ecology and social network survival is made evident in a distributed and collaborative effort. During the show, photosynthesis depends on remote collective action. Birth, growth, and death on the Internet form a horizon of possibilities that unfolds as participants dynamically contribute to the work. Collaborative action and responsibility through the network are essential for the survival of the organism.
Descriptions & Essays
The installation Teleporting An Unknown State creates the experience of the Internet as a life-supporting system. In a very dark room a pedestal with earth serves as a nursery for a single seed. Through a video projector suspended above and facing the pedestal, remote participants send light via the Internet to enable this seed to photosynthesize and grow in total darkness.
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Literature
Kac, Eduardo. »GFP Bunny.« Kunstforum 158 (January-March 2002): 46-57.
Kac, Eduardo. »Gravitropism: Art and the Joys of Levitation.« In I Leviate, What´s Next, edited by Aleksandra Kostic, 88-97. Maribor, SL: Kibla, 2001.
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. »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.
Becker, Carol. »GFP Bunny.« Art Journal 59, no. 3 (Fall 2000).
Becker, Carol. »GFP Bunny.« Art Journal 59, no. 3 (Fall 2000).
Kac, Eduardo. »Negotiating Meaning: The Dialogic Imagination in Electronic Art.« In Proceedings of Computers in Art and Design Education Conference, edited by UK University of Teesside. Teeside, UK: 1999.
Kac, Eduardo. »Genesis.« In Ars Electronica 1999: LifeScience, edited by Gerfried Stocker and Christine Schöpf. Wien, New York: Springer Verlag, 1999.
Kac, Eduardo. »Beyond the Screen: New Directions in Interactive Art.« Blimp: Film Magazine 40 (1999): 49-54.
Kac, Eduardo. »Novos Rumos na Arte Interativa.« Veredas 3, no. 32 (August 1998): 12-15.
Kac, Eduardo. »Live from Mars.« Leonardo 31, no. 1 (1998): 1-2.
Kac, Eduardo. »Live from Mars.« Leonardo 31, no. 1 (1998): 1-2.
Kac, Eduardo. »Origin and Development of Robotic Art.« Art Journal 56, no. 3 (1997): 60-67.
Kac, Eduardo. »Origin and Development of Robotic Art.« Art Journal 56, no. 3 (1997): 60-67.
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