Descripción de la Exposición
Join Eduardo Kac for his latest solo show in New York City this month at Henrique Faria Fine Art. Featuring work from the early '80s all the way through to today, From Minitel to NFT follows Kac in his decades-long tenure at the cutting edge of art & technology culminating in his contribution to today's digital arts environment. Kac has worked with everything from the first mass-market personal computers to the camera lenses of satellites orbiting Earth as media for his work; art at both local and global scales will be on display in New York for the duration of this show.
Eduardo Kac: From Minitel to NFT features runtime, networked, real time, interactive, animated, and space artworks from the last four decades of Kac’s career. Writer and critic Jeffrey Kastner has pointed out that "if each of these works is grounded in an intricate network of highly technological phenomena, their subject matter—ecstasy, conjuring, chaos, individuality, sexual desire—seem as though they could hardly be further from the world of circuit boards, ASCII code, and telephone cables. Like all of Kac’s work, they hover productively between the finely specific tolerances of the laboratory and the liberatory open spaces of affect and imagination."
Originally written in Basic, Geometria do Êxtase (above) is part of a series of experimental ASCII works from the early '80s. In the poem we look straight down at the top surface of a cube. An invisible light source orbits the cube, casting verbal shadows that can be seen gyrating clockwise, much in the manner of a sundial.
Slow-Scan TV was an early type of videophone that allowed the transmission/reception of sequential still video images over regular phone lines. It took from eight to twelve seconds to transmit each image. Instead of considering each picture as a final form or the sequence of images as illusion of movement, in Conversation Kac explored the live process of image formation.
Eduardo Kac, Lagoogleglyph 2, 2015. Space artwork realized in Mallorca to be seen by satellites, to be experienced in person and/or through Google Maps (satellite view), Google Earth or the Google Earth Pro app; looped video, 1’14, silent
Eduardo Kac’s Lagoogleglyphs (2009-ongoing) are space artworks that inscribe lagoglyphs (Kac’s iconic green rabbit glyphs) into the environment and make them visible to the world through the perspective of satellites. These artworks are created at a global scale and can be experienced in person at their respective venues, directly via satellites, or through Google's geographic search engine. In addition to the distributed artworks (in person; online; in space), Kac has created a video for each individual Lagoogleglyph by capturing, in Google Earth Pro, the view from space all the way down to the eye of the rabbit glyph on Earth (and back again to outer space). The series is ongoing and is part of Kac’s larger Lagoglyph project, which includes prints, murals, sculptures, paintings, and an algorithmic animation.
Celebrating his 60th birthday this year, Eduardo Kac is currently exhibiting at MoMA, New York; Reina Sofia, Madrid; Pompidou Center, Paris; and the Venice Biennale, among others. Kac also has a new artwork orbiting the Earth aboard the International Space Station.
Exposición. 19 nov de 2024 - 02 mar de 2025 / Museo Nacional del Prado / Madrid, España
Formación. 23 nov de 2024 - 29 nov de 2024 / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) / Madrid, España
