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Eduardo Kac

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Brazilian-American Contemporary Bio-Artist
Born: July 3, 1962, Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Specimen of Secrecy About Marvelous Discoveries

A series of works comprised of "biotopes", i.e., living pieces that change during the exhibition in response to internal metabolism and environmental conditions, including temperature, relative humidity, airflow, and light levels in the exhibition space. Each biotope is a self-sustaining ecology comprised of thousands of very small living beings in various mediums.

Inner Telescope New York

Solo show held at Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York from March 28 to May 11, 2019

MOVE 36

"Move 36" makes reference to the dramatic move made by the computer called Deep Blue against chess world champion Gary Kasparov in 1997. The installation presents a chessboard made of earth (dark squares) and white sand (light squares) in the middle of the room. There are no chess pieces on the board. Positioned exactly where Deep Blue made its Move 36 is a plant whose genome incorporates a new gene that was created specifically for this work. The gene uses ASCII (the universal computer code for representing binary numbers as Roman characters, on- and off-line) to translate Descartes's statement: "Cogito ergo sum" (I think therefore I am) into the four bases of genetics.

Natural History of the Enigma Series

Developed between 2003 and 2008, the first exhibit from April 17 to June 21, 2009 at the Weisman Art Museum, in Minneapolis, encompasses the central work in the series- a plantimal, a large-scale public sculpture, a print suite, photographs, and other works.