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Life Light Language: The Poetics of Bronac Ferran

Edited by Professor Andrew Prescott

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Life Light Language captures a fascinating dialogue between the renowned pioneer of media poetry, telepresence and bio art Eduardo Kac, the writer and curator Bronac Ferran, and the historian and manuscript scholar Andrew Prescott. The book reveals the various ways in which poetry and textuality have pervaded Kac's practice over four decades in a wide range of different media and technologies-from LED displays to the Minitel, from telerobotics to nanotech, from olfactory systems to DNA. It probes the context within which the artist has generated numerous poetic perspectives in digital, holographic and online works as well as works in bio art (which he named) and in outer space, with French astronaut Thomas Pesquet. Kac's works are consistently challenging: asking questions about the shape, structure and power of text and stimulating a simultaneous rethinking of kinaesthetic engagement of readers. An introductory essay by Prescott, an internationally acknowledged authority in digital humanities, describes how exploration of Kac's work created for him new digital, scientific and aesthetic horizons.Eduardo Kac is one of the most renowned artists to have engaged with scientific and technological applications as part of his practice. His work is held in numerous international collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum, UK; ZKM Museum, Germany; Thoma Foundation, and MIT Museum, USA.

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