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Artwork: Genesis 1

3 pages in this Web Site

The Eighth Day: The Transgenic Art of Eduardo Kac
This book accompanies the Eighth Day project created by Kac in collaboration with a team of scientists in 2001.

Eduardo Kac
Kac began his artistic career as a traditional performance artist but eventually moved on to investigate technology artistically through an exploration of poetry.

Eduardo Kac, Genesis 2
Genesis 2 is the second phase of an earlier project by Eduardo Kac entitled Genesis 1, a transgenic installation.

4 audiovisual documents

Eduardo Kac, Genesis, 1999

Eduardo Kac, Genesis, 1999.

Transgenic artwork linked to the Internet. Installation view.

Courtesy of the artist.
Photo: Otto Saxinger.

Eduardo Kac, Genesis, 1999

Eduardo Kac, Genesis, 1999.

Transgenic artwork linked to the Internet. Installation view.

Courtesy of the artist.
Photo: Otto Saxinger.

Eduardo Kac, Genesis, 1999

Eduardo Kac, Genesis, 1999.

Transgenic artwork linked to the Internet. Installation view.

Courtesy of the artist.
Photo: Otto Saxinger.

Eduardo Kac, Genesis, 1999

Eduardo Kac, Genesis, 1999.

Genesis by Eduardo Kac uses the conversion method illustrated here: the sentence of the Bible is converted to morse code, which then is converted into DNA code. The four basic proteins of DNA: T (thymine), C (cytosine), A (adenine), G (guanine).

Courtesy of the artist.

36 web sites

Part of Web site
«El final del eclipse = The end of the eclipse». – Fundación Telefónica = Telefonica Foundation. – Madrid : Telefonica Foundation. {{www.fundacion.telefonica.com}}

Group exhibition catalogue
El Final del Eclipse. – Madrid : Telefonica Foundation, 2001. – 332 p. Also available on the Internet. {{www.fundacion.telefonica.com}}

Part of Web site
«Indepth arts news : "bloom : mutation, toxicity and the sublime"». – Absolute Art News. – Columbus : World Wide Arts Resources, 1995-. {{www.absolutearts.com}}

103 documents in the collection

Text in periodical
Paul, Christiane. – «Renderings of digital art». – Leonardo. – Vol. 35, no. 5 (2002). – P. 471-484.

Book
Paul, Christiane. – Digital art. – London : Thames and Hudson, 2003. – 224 p. – (World of art).

Book
Lovejoy, Margot. – Digital currents : art in the electronic age. – Third edition. – London : Routledge, 2004. – 342 p. – Originally published in 1989.

24 events

Solo exhibition
Eduardo Kac : Genesis, Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago, Ill., United States, May 4-June 2, 2001. {{www.juliafriedman.com}}

Group exhibition
Paradise Now : Picturing the Genetic Revolution, Exit Art, New York, N. Y., United States, September 9-October 28, 2000. – Circulating exhibition. {{www.geneart.org}}

Festival
Ars Electronica 99 : Life Science, Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria, September 4-9, 1999. {{web.aec.at}}