Insights from the Experts: SU Faculty Share Favorite “BioArt” Works by Eduardo Kac
This year’s Kashi and Kameshwar C. Wali Lecture in the Sciences and Humanities features Eduardo Kac, a pioneer of the “BioArt” sub-genre at the intersection of science and art.
Eduardo Kac is an internationally renowned contemporary artist, whose works appear at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the Tate Modern art gallery in London and the Museo Reina Sofía in Spain. Delivering this year's Wali Lecture -- “Rockets for the Sake of Poetry,” October 24 -- Kac revisits key highlights in his career, with emphasis on his body of artwork dealing with outer space.
BioArt is an artform that first came to Syracuse University in 2018, when Heidi Hehnly, Renée Crown Professor in the Sciences and Mathematics and associate professor of biology in A&S, and Boryana Rossa, professor of film and media art in the College of Visual and Performing Arts (VPA), established the BioArt Mixer... [Read the full A&S News story.]