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  • What is the condition of the art object in the age of networking and telematics? The piece entitled Dialogical Drawing, 1994, by Eduardo Kac, addresses this question by presenting two identical objects simultaneously at two distinct exhibition...
  • Internet, video projections on gaze and helium bal

    Playing instruments is the common lot of music.

    Playing with emotions is the common lot of politics and entertainment

    Considering the Net as the World nervous system.

    Scanning the...
  • Placed in the middle of the Center for Contemporary Art, the yellow canary was given a very large and comfortable cylindrical white cage, on top of which circuit-boards, a speaker, and a microphone were located. A clear Plexiglas disc separated the...
  • Reabracadabra, 1985 - Videotext animated poem shown in 1985 in the group exhibition Arte On-Line, a national videotext art gallery presented by Companhia Telefônica de São Paulo.

    In 2003 Reabracadabra was adapted for cel phones.
  • Tesão -
    Videotext (minitel) animated poem shown online in the group exhibition Brazil High-Tech (1986), a national videotext art gallery organized in Rio de Janeiro by Eduardo Kac and Flavio Ferraz and presented by Companhia Telefônica de São Paulo (in...
  • Recaos -
    When viewers logged on, the first saw the letter C on the lower right corner of the screen. The letter A appeared above the C, followed by a series of letters O moving upwards. This motion was against the default mode of the videotex medium, which...
  • D/eu/s -
    When viewers logged on they first saw a black screen. Then, a small white rectangle appeared in the middle of the screen. Slowly, vertical bars descended inside the horizontal rectangle. At the bottom, viewers saw apparently random letters and...
  • Three City Link -
    In 1989, the Three-City Link event brought together artists in Chicago (organized by Eduardo Kac and Carlos Fadon), Boston (led by Dana Moser), and Pittsburgh (the DAX [Digital Art Exchange] Group). A slow-scan television system connected to a...
  • Telecommunications event between Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo uniting fax and live TV, 1988. Connecting the public medium of television with the private medium of the fax this work created a system of feedback based on the continuous exchange and...
  • Unreflective Mirror -
    Surveillance camera, surveillance video
    monitor, custom-made polarized filter glasses,
    PC, data projector x 2

    This virtual mirror effectively erases the
    presence of the spectator, manipulating and
    questioning notions of identity and...