Bio

Eduardo Kac, (born July 3, 1962, in Brazil), Brazilian American artist who was best known for his works featuring genetically altered organisms in ways that frequently had conceptual or symbolic import. He termed these endeavours “bio art” or “transgenic art.” While at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and got his M.F.A., 1990. He dabbled in performance art, poetry and robots as well but did not settle in to his “bio art” intill 1998 were Kac he wrote a paper were he said he could make a genetically engineered fluorescent dog.

Work

Eduardo Kac's works rage form his early poetry,working with robotic birds, than settling on this “bio art” writhing his paper that tells how he can make his prototype of "Alba” GFP Bunny that glowed green and an entity of himself the petunia flower he coined “Edunia”

My thoughts

The priceable of “bio art” a term coined by Kac himself was an interesting concept to me because in his mind he gives his art a lot more validity because he is creating a living work of art that he has to take into account and care for. As an example, "alba" the glowing green rabbit he thought it was beautiful where others that "alba" was a monster. As for his flower “Edunia” it is a cross of his DNA and a petunia it is him in a different form he is carrying on his DNA in the form of a plaint.