petunia – Artificial Intelligence https://ars.electronica.art/ai/en Ars Electronica Festival 2017 Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:43:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 Natural History of the Enigma https://ars.electronica.art/ai/en/enigma/ Tue, 08 Aug 2017 14:07:15 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/ai/?p=3663

Eduardo Kac (US)

The central work in the Natural History of the Enigma series is a “plantimal”, a new life form that Eduardo Kac has created and which he calls “Edunia,” a genetically engineered flower that is a hybrid of the artist and a petunia.

Edunia expresses Kac’s DNA exclusively in its red veins. The gene that Kac has selected is responsible for the identification of foreign bodies. In this work, it is precisely what identifies and rejects the Other that the artist integrates into the Other, thus creating a new kind of self that is partly flower and partly human.

Credits

www.ekac.org

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