Telepresence & Bio Art: Networking Humans, Rabbits, & Robots (Studies in Literature and Science) - Hardcover

Kac, Eduardo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0472098101 ISBN 13: 9780472098101

Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr, 2005

Synopsis

"Eduardo Kac's work represents a turning point. What it questions is our current attitudes to creativity, taking that word in its most fundamental sense."-Edward Lucie-Smith, author of Visual Arts in the 20th Century"His works introduce a vital new meaning into what had been known as the creative process while at the same time investing the notion of the artist-inventor with an original social and ethical responsibility."-Frank Popper, author of Origins and Development of Kinetic Art"Kac's radical approach to the creation and presentation of the body as a wet host for artificial memory and 'site-specific' work raises a variety of important questions that range from the status of memory in digital culture to the ethical dilemmas we are facing in the age of bioengineering and tracking technology."-Christiane Paul, Whitney Museum of ArtFor nearly two decades Eduardo Kac has been at the cutting edge of media art, first inventing early

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ of Michigan Pr
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0472098101
• ISBN 13: 9780472098101
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 311