[Nettime-bold] Eduardo Kac: Time Capsule, Genesis, Teleporting An Unknown State

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From: "JFA" <info@juliafriedman.com>
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 11:59 PM
Subject: Time Capsule, Genesis, Teleporting An Unknown State

EDUARDO KAC

Time Capsule
Genesis
Teleporting An Unknown State

TIME CAPSULE
Opens as part of the inaugural exhibition for "ELECTRONIC MAPLE:
Human Language and Digital Culture in Contemporary Art," May 19th,
2001, 5-9 PM at New York Center for Media Arts, 45-12 Davis Street,
Long Island City, NY

This new "Time Capsule" video installation is comprised of video of
the artist's 1997 live microchip implant (shown on a flat LCD panel
mounted with a needle and a microchip) surrounded by seven
sepia-toned photographs. "Time Capsule" confronts the internalization
of memory through the absorption of analogue imagery (the sepia-toned
photographs) with the notion of memory in the digital age (the live
microchip implant). While in the former it is precisely the
historical context of the images that enables the gradual development
of narratives of identity, in the latter the internalization of
memory is abrupt, traumatic, and decontextualized. The photographs
and the microchip are also linked symbolically. The seven sepia-toned
photographs were taken in Poland in the '30s and represent a part of
the artist's family that was killed in the Second World War. The
content of the microchip is a nine-digit number, a digital tatoo that
serves as much as an instrument of surveillance and identification as
it serves to depersonalize the human. The work suggests that, in the
future, the human body might become a site of both moist and digital
memories.  For more information about the exhibition, please see:
http://www.nycmediaarts.org/upcoming_x.html. For more information on
"Time Capsule", please see: http://www.ekac.org/timec.html

GENESIS
Live from Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago, through June 2, 2001
http://genesis.juliafriedman.com/

"Genesis" is a transgenic net installation that explores the
intricate relationship between biology, belief systems, information
technology, dialogical interaction, ethics, and the Internet.  The
key element of Genesis is an "artist's gene," a synthetic gene
created by translating a sentence from the biblical book of Genesis
into Morse Code, and converting the Morse Code into DNA base pairs.
The sentence reads: "Let man have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves
upon the earth."  This sentence was chosen for what it implies about
the dubious notion--divinely sanctioned-of supremacy over nature.
Morse code was chosen because, as the first example of the use of
radiotelegraphy, it represents the dawn of the information age--the
genesis of global communication.  The "Genesis gene," which is
incorporated into glowing bacteria is projected as live video in the
gallery and streams over the Internet, where the public is encouraged
to intervene and monitor the evolution of the work.  Original Genesis
DNA music, by composer Peter Gena accompanies the installation.  The
"Genesis" net installation has been exhibited at Exit Art, New York,
Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, O.K. Center for Contemporary Art,
Linz, and Centro Cultural Itaú, São Paulo.  It will travel to
Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama, Japan, September 2 to November 11,
2001; Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain, September 12 to November
18, 2001; and Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, February 9 to May 18, 2002.
"Genesis" at Julia Friedman Gallery is Kac's first major solo
exhibition and is comprised of several new artworks, seen for the
first time.   For more information, please see:
http://www.juliafriedman.com/exhib_kac.html

TELEPORTING AN UNKNOWN STATE
Live from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California, through
July 1, 2001
http://telematics.walkerart.org:28080/TP/servlet/TeleportServlet/index.html

"Teleporting an Unknown State," 94/2001 is a biotelematic net
installation that allows online participants to send light from eight
areas of the world to a single seed planted in a physical gallery.
The plant depends on light sent by Web participants to be able to do
photosynthesis and grow in a completely dark room. This work uses the
notion of teleportation of particles (photons) to create the metaphor
of the Internet as a life-supporting system.  "Teleporting an Unknown
State" will travel for two years as part of the exhibition "Telematic
Connections: The Virtual Embrace," curated by Steve Dietz for
Independent Curators International (ICI), New York. Previous versions
of "Teleporting an Unknown State" are documented here :
http://www.ekac.org/teleporting.html

For more information, please contact Julia Friedman at
<info@juliafriedman.com> or 312.455.0755.

___________________________________________

Julia Friedman
Julia Friedman Gallery
118 N Peoria
Chicago, IL  60607
Phone:  (312) 455 0755
Fax:  (312) 455 0765
E-mail:  info@juliafriedman.com
http://www.juliafriedman.com




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