[nettime-lat] Live Webcast Panel Eduardo Kac Oct 25

[cristine wang <cristinewang@yahoo.com>]

For Immediate Release

Live Webcast Symposium
*Thursday, Oct. 25, 2001*

http://is.asu.edu/live 

“The Eighth Day: Bioethics and Transgenics. A
Public
Forum on the Art of Eduardo Kac”
(10:30 pmEST) Neeb Hall

THE EIGHTH DAY, A TRANSGENIC NET INSTALLATION
by Eduardo Kac

http://isa.hc.asu.edu/eighthday/ 

will have its world premier and invite public
debate
at

Institute for Studies in the Arts, Tempe, Arizona

Participants include:

Dan Collins
moderator. Associate Professor, School of Art,
Arizona
State University 

Eduardo Kac
artist. Associate Professor of Art and
Technology, The
School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Cristine Wang
Contributing Editor, NY Arts Magazine, Curator,
Re:Duchamp Exhibition, 49th Venice Biennial

Tanya Augsberg
Interdisciplinary Studies, Arizona State
University 

Allen Rawls
scientist. Dept. of Biology, Arizona State
University 

Joan McGregor
philosopher, Arizona State University 

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Kac's most recent transgenic artwork, "The Eighth
Day," is presented by Institute for Studies in
the
Arts, Tempe, from October 25 - November 2, 2001. 

"The Eighth Day" provides the public with the
unique
opportunity to experience a spectacular ecology
of
green glowing creatures and thus to critically
reflect
on the social and cultural implications of
biotechnology. "The Eighth Day" brings together a
biological robot (biobot) linked to the Internet,
GFP
fish, GFP mice, GFP amoeba and GFP plants, and
video
footage and sound of the ebb and flow of moving
water.


In order to approach the transgenic ecology, the
viewer "walks on water." Gentle, recurring sounds
of
waves emanate from four corners of the room. In
the
center of this tranquil environment, a
fluorescent
ecology of living creatures emerges. The living
creatures and the biobot are enclosed in an
environment under a ventilated, clear, plexiglas
dome,
thus rendering dramatically visible what it would
be
like if these creatures would in fact coexist in
the
world at large. 

As a self-contained artificial ecological system
it
resonates with the words in the title, which add
one
day to the period of creation of the world as
narrated
in the Judeo-Christian Scriptures. All transgenic
creatures in "The Eighth Day" express the gene
that
produces green fluorescent protein (GFP). By
enabling
local and online participants to experience the
environment inside the dome from the point of
view of
the biobot, "The Eighth Day" creates a context in
which participants can reflect on the meaning of
a
transgenic ecology from a first-person
perspective. 

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"The Eighth Day" was developed through a two-year
residency at the Institute for Studies in the
Arts,
Arizona State University, Tempe. 

Eduardo Kac is represented by Julia Friedman
Gallery,
Chicago. 

*All events are free*and held on the Arizona
State
University campus.  A campus map can be found at:
http://www.asu.edu/map

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*For Further Information Contact*

Sheilah Britton
Institute for Studies in the Arts 
480.965.0964 sheilah@asu.edu

Dan Collins
Associate Professor, 
School of Art, Arizona State University
office: 480-965-8311 dan.collins@asu.edu

Eduardo Kac
Associate Professor of Art and Technology 
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago 
Phone: (312) 345-3567 E-mail: ekac@artic.edu
http://www.ekac.org

Live Webcast of Symposium at 10:30pmEST
http://is.asu.edu/live 

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best regards, 

Cristine Wang
http://cristine.org
mobile: 917.318.0081
email: info@cristine.org

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