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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 21:35:49 EDT
Subject: Premier: Eduardo Kac's "The Eighth Day" + Symposium
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For Immediate Release

*Thursday, Oct. 25, 2001*

THE EIGHTH DAY, A TRANSGENIC NET INSTALLATION
by Eduardo Kac
will have its world premier and invite public debate at

Institute for Studies in the Arts, Tempe, Arizona
October 25 - November 2, 2001

*Lecture by the artist*
"Art, Ethics, and Biotechnology:
The 8th Day and the Transgenic Art of Eduardo Kac"
(3 - 4 pm) Computing Commons Auditorium

*Opening Reception*
"The Eighth Day" an installation by Eduardo Kac
(4 - 5:30pm) Computing Commons Gallery

"The Eighth Day: Bioethics and Transgenics. A Public Forum on the Art of

Eduardo Kac"
(7:30 pm) Neeb Hall

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 [log in to unmask]

Dan Collins
Associate Professor,
School of Art, Arizona State University
office: 480-965-8311 [log in to unmask]

Eduardo Kac
Associate Professor of Art and Technology
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Phone: (312) 345-3567 E-mail: [log in to unmask]

http://www.ekac.org

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best regards,
cristine wang

http://cristine.org
mobile: 917.318.0081
email: [log in to unmask]

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