Eduardo Kac: Teleporting An Unknown State

This book documents Eduardo Kac's art work in the areas of telematics, telepresence, and interactivity.

Eduardo Kac is an artist and writer who works with electronic and photonic media, including telepresence, holography, computers, video, robotics, and the Internet, as well as biological systems, such as animals, plants, bacteria, and organic tissue. His work has been exhibited widely in the United States, Europe, and South America. Kac's works belong to the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Holography in Chicago, and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, among others.

He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Leonardo, published by MIT Press. In 1995 he received the prestigious Shearwater Foundation Holography Award for his body of work in the medium. In 1998 he received the Leonardo Award for Excellence. His anthology New Media Poetry: Poetic Innovation and New Technologies was published in 1996 as a special issue of the journal Visible Language, of which he was a guest editor. Writings by Kac on electronic art as well as articles about his work have appeared in several books, newspapers, magazines, and journals in many countries, including Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Japan, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Russia, Singapore, Slovenia, Uruguay, United Kingdom, and United States. The 90-page book Teleporting An Unknown State, published by Kibla, in Maribor, Slovenia documents Kac's work in telepresence, telematics, and biology.

Kac works with multiple media to create hybrids from the conventional operations of existing communications systems, engaging participants in situations involving elements such as light, language, distant places, time zones, telerobotics, interspecies interaction, video conferences, biological elements, and the exchange and transformation of information via networks. Often relying on the indefinite suspension of closure and the intervention of the participant, his work encourages dialogical interaction and confronts complex issues concerning identity, agency, responsibility, and the very possibility of communication.

Eduardo Kac is a Ph.D. research fellow at the Centre for Advanced Inquiry in Interactive Arts (CAiiA) at the University of Wales, Newport, United Kingdom. He is an Assistant Professor of Art and Technology at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has received numerous grants and awards for his work.