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  • ...Eduardo Kac has created an artwork aboard the International Space Station (ISS); French astronaut Thomas Pesquet realized it on Saturday, February 18th, 2017. Kac's work, entitled Inner Telescope, was specifically conceived for zero gravity and was not brought from...
  • Monogram
    ...August 22, 1997 (Kennedy Space Center, Florida)— A Jet Propulsion Laboratory technician inserts the DVD containing Kac's Monogram and many other files into a shallow cavity between two pieces of aluminum that protected it from micrometeoroid impacts. The package was...
  • Early Performances -
    ...In the early '80s Eduardo Kac gave weekly performances on the streets of Cinelandia, the Bohemian center of Rio de Janeiro. He also performed at theaters, galleries, and on beaches. He concluded his performance project with a celebration of the human body staged on...
  • Pornéia
    ...FROM THE BACK COVER "These previously unissued recordings from the Porn Art Movement (1980-1982) include five performances recorded live on Ipanema Beach in 1982, as well as a selection of previously unheard studio recordings of my yellpoems (Poemas-pra- gritar). I...
  • Cracks to Oases -
    ...The book describes my personal observations during the workshop Ingrutatti Palermo as part of ‹Manifesta 12› in July 2018. In the course of these 10 days, I was part of a group of artists and architects from around the world. Sara Kamalvand’s research on the Qanat...
  • Forced Leisure -
    ... hammock, a symbol of leisure, relaxation and even freedom, is combined with elements of a straitjacket. Textile sensors are woven into the fabric and measure the “degree of relaxation”. Movement and attempts of escape are detected in different spots and transformed...
  • ...The audience is elevated and observes the stage from a low angle, as in an anatomical theater where humans are enveloped by a swarm of inorganic beings. Graphical entities with their own behavioral code. A show for two dancers and digital particles, whose overall score...
  • ...Spectators enter an intimate space to meet face-to-face with a performer offering her body as an interface to the media environment. Performer's outfit and scenic environment are equipped with touch sensors, theremins, and multiple buttons and dimmers. Scenes and...
  • ...Geolocative performance simultaneously staged in the street and in the theater. The public sits in a tent, on which text messages of an urban passer-by / actor are manipulated by movements of a dancer outside the tent. Surveillance technologies, GPS from the cellphone...
  • ...Performers tele-dialogue from two distinct places with a single spectator at a time, whose shadows become the theater of the work. Each performance is unique and constitutes a singular experience for the visitor, who is no longer only a passive observer but who,...