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Fr 4.9.
13.30 – 15.00 Uhr

Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal

13.30 – 14.00 Uhr
Eduardo Kac

14.00 – 14.30 Uhr
Josef Penninger

14.30 – 15.00 Uhr
Round Table: Eduardo Kac, Josef Penninger, Jens Hauser

Diese Human Nature Lecture ist Teil des Prix Ars Electronica Forums Hybrid Art.

Josef Penninger (AT). Director of the Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Eduardo Kac (BR) is internationally recognized for his telepresence and bio art. Kac’s work is exhibited internationally and is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Modern Art of Valencia, Spain, the ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe, Germany, and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, among others, and has received many awards.
http://www.ekac.org

Jens Hauser (FR / DE) is a Paris-based art curator, writer, cultural journalist and video maker focusing on the interactions between art and technology, and on transgenre and contextual aesthetics. Hauser has organized “L’Art Biotech” (2003), a show on biotechnological art, and “Still, Living” (2007) at the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth, and “Sk-Interfaces” (2008) at FACT. He’s also co-curating the Article Biennale in Stavanger (European Cultural Capital 2008 with Liverpool), and stages sk-interfaces at Casino, the Contemporary Arts Center Luxembourg, in 2009. He is currently a lecturer at the Institute of Media Studies at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and has been a guest lecturer internationally.