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Categories: Transgenic Art
Keywords: Generative Art | Body
Relevant passages:
Ingeborg Reichle «Transgenic Bodies. Where Art and Science Meet: Genetic Engineering in Contemporary Art1 Art and science»
Works by Eduardo Kac:
Genesis
GFP Bunny Ornitorrinco Rara Avis Reabracadabra The Eight Day Uirapuru
Check as well:
Walid Ra’ad (The Atlas Group) »I Only Wish That I Could Weep« Gábor Bódy »Infermental« Dieter Roth »Dot«
Eduardo Kac
«GFP K-9»
In his 1998 manifesto on Transgenic Art Eduardo Kac proposed to use Green Fluorescent Protein to create a fluorescent dog «GFP K-9» which he never actually realized. He intended to melt the DNA of a dog with the DNA-sequence of a gene that encodes the production of Green Fluorescent Protein. This gene can be extracted from a quail of the North Pacific (Aequorea victoria). It emits a green light when exposed to ultraviolet rays of a certain wavelength.
