Publications

Porneia

2022

Specifications: Paperback, 200 pages, color images, 7 x 9" (25.5 x 18.5 cm).

Language: Portuguese/English

Publisher: Nightboat Books, Brooklyn, New York

Description: Porneia features works realized in the context of the Porn Art Movement, a vanguard that emerged in 1980 under a military dictatorship in Brazil and which, for two intense years, straddled the line between relentless formal experimentation and the outlying demimonde where boundary-busting gender reinvention took place. Through performances, poetry and visual works, as well as through interventions in daily life, between 1980 and 1982 Kac carried out a radical body-based program that upturned the semiotics of normative pornography at the service of activism and imagination.

ISBN: 9781643620268

Eduardo Kac: Télescope intérieur / Inner Telescope

2021

Specifications: 96 pgs. Edited by Gérard Azoulay. A special edition (tirage de tête) includes the print Apoapsis signed and numbered by the artist.

Language: French/English

Publisher: Observatoire de L'Espace, CNES, Paris. Distributed by les presses du réel.

Description: Created by American artist Eduardo Kac to exist only in zero gravity, Inner Telescope was made aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in 2017 by French astronaut Thomas Pesquet. It set the first milestone of a new form of artistic and poetic creation, freed from the constraints of gravity. This book introduces the reader to the extraordinary story of this art project, from its early days to its completion in space. An interview with the artist sheds light on his intentions regarding the performance aboard the ISS and the numerous works that came with it.

ISBN: 978-2-85440-046-5

ats@50 (free download)

2019

Specifications: 80 pgs., cover 100# white anthem matte; body 80# white anthem matte, 9 1/4 x 11" (23.4 x 27.94 cm). Co-edited with Duncan Bass. Articles by Eduardo Kac, Steve Waldeck, Peter Gena, Sonia Landy Sheridan, Stephen Wilson, John Dunn, Joan Truckenbrod, Duncan Bass, Dominique Moulon, Judy Malloy, Jacob Tonski, Lee Blalock, Judd Morrissey

Language: English

Publisher: The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Description: This book interweaves personal, historical, and scholarly accounts of the Art and Technology Studies department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Published on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the department.

ISBN: 978-0-578-51202-0

Scripta Volant (sold out)

2018

Specifications: 16 pgs., copper ink on Mohawk Superfine Eggshell White paper (risograph), 8.5 x 11 in (21.5 by 27.9 cm), with two stickers. Signed and numbered by Kac.

Language: English

Edition: 100

Publisher: Green Lantern Press, Chicago

Description: An illustrated zine comprised of previously unpublished drawings by Eduardo Kac (from the suite Performance for one astronaut, one pair of scissors and two sheets of paper), the first American publication of Kac's 2007 manifesto Space Poetry, and the essay "When that which holds us no longer holds us," writen by Fulla Abdul-Jabbar & Caroline Picard specifically for Scripta Volant.

Téléscope intérieur – Une œuvre spatiale d’Eduardo Kac [Inner Telescope – A spatial artwork by Eduardo Kac]

2018

Specifications: multizone DVD with 4 bonuses

Language: French with English subtitles

Publisher: a.p.r.e.s éditions and l'Observatoire de l'espace du CNES, Paris

Description: 35min film documenting the conception, production and experience in outer space of the artwork Inner Telescope, by Eduardo Kac

Eduardo Kac: Telepresence, Bio Art & Poetry [1980-2010]

2017

Specifications: Box set with three DVDs and a book. The DVDs are titled: 1-Art; 2-Poetry; 3-Documentaries and Interviews. Book contributors are: Frank Popper, Rebecca Uchill, Steve Tomasula, Linda Weintraub, Simone Osthoff, Eugene Thacker, Gerald Bruns, Hugues Marchal, and Annick Bureaud.

Language: English

Publisher: Video Data Bank, Chicago

Description: Video Data Bank is proud to present the pioneering work of Bio Artist Eduardo Kac. This three-disc box set features art works that expand the limits of locality, light, and language. Included is a 119-page monograph containing seven essays that investigate and elaborate on how Kac uses communication processes, biological life, and digital networks to create works that explore fundamental human experiences such as the fluidity of language, dialogical interaction, and awareness of our relative place in the larger community of life.

Télescope intérieur [Inner Telescope]

2017

Specifications: An illustrated letterpress book comprised of seven booklets (in French only; signed and numbered by Kac); a portfolio of seven prints (signed and numbered by Kac); the official Space Poetry polo shirt; an edition of the space poem Inner Telescope (signed and numbered by Kac); and a black structure made of wood and glass, 11 x 14 x 14 inches (27.5 x 35 x 34.5 cm). Signed and numbered by Kac.

Language: French

Edition: 15

Publisher: Atelier Marie-Sol Parant, France

Description: In reference to the multidirectional drawers that make up the International Space Station, this artist's book hovers between a chest storage cabinet and a portable workstation. It is composed of four removable compartments and functions as a self-contained exhibition, featuring key Inner Telescope objects not available elsewhere.

ISS#71904

2017

Specifications: 16 pgs., metallic silver ink on black paper (offset) 7.4 x 10.23 in (19 x 26 cm). Signed and numbered by Kac.

Language: n/a

Edition: 100

Publisher: L’Observatoire de l’Espace, the cultural lab at the French Space Agency (Centre national d’études spatiales, CNES)

Description: Functioning as a manual, the book shows, step by step, the protocol created by Eduardo Kac (and followed by astronaut Thomas Pesquet aboard the International Space Station), in the realization of the space artwork "Inner Telescope". Published on the occasion of the world's premiere of "Inner Telescope", realized at the headquarters of the French Space Agency, Paris, in 2017.

Space Poetry (sold out)

2016

Specifications: 20 pgs., multicolor risograph artist's book with onlay embroidered patch, 7.6 x 9.8 in (19,5 x 25 cm). Signed and numbered by Kac.

Language: English

Edition: 100

Publisher: Kac Studio, Chicago

Description: Through a sequence of images and wihtout text, the book unveils the story of the collaborative adventure between an artonaut and an astronaut to produce and experience the first non-terrestrial artwork. The book was published on November 2016 to celebrate the flight to the International Space Station of French astronaut Thomas Pesquet, with whom Kac has collaborated in the creation of the poetic artwork Inner Telescope [Télescope intérieur].

Biopoetry

2016

Specifications: 22 pgs., 7 color photos

Language: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Chinese

Publisher: Editions AcquAvivA, Berlin

Description: The book presents the Biopoetry manifesto (2002) in its original English form translated to several languages. It features many images never published before, starting with the cover.

Porneia

2016

Specifications: Vinyl record with color booklet insert

Language: English and Portuguese

Edition: 270

Publisher: Alga Marghen, Milan

Description: These previously unissued recordings from the Porn Art Movement (1980-1982) include five performances recorded live on Ipanema Beach in 1982, as well as a selection of previously unheard studio recordings of kac's yellpoems (Poemas-pra-gritar). Kac used to perform these works in squares, beaches, parks, theatres and many other locations at the time—often with his signature pink miniskirt, when not au naturel.

Outrossim [Otherwise]

2013

Specifications: Silkscreen print, 8.2 x 11.4 inches (21 x 29 cm). Signed and numbered by Kac.

Language: Portuguese

Edition: 100

Publisher: Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro

Description: This work is composed of two different anamorphic QR codes. Once the lens of the cell phone converts the distorted images into squares, the QR app on the phone automatically reads the two codes and renders the animations visible.

Life, Light & Language / La vie, la lumière & le langage

2011

Specifications: Exhibition catalogue (color photos)

Language: English and French

Publisher: Enghien-les-Bains Art Center, France

Description: Contains the most in-depth interview ever given by Eduardo Kac ("Fifty questions for Eduardo Kac: an interview," by Dominique Moulon). Includes many never-before-published photographs. Published on the occasion of Kac's homonymous solo show.

Eduardo Kac : El creador de seres imposibles [Eduardo Kac: Creator of Impossible Beings] (sold out)

2010

Specifications: 124 pgs., 20 color photos

Language: Spanish

Publisher: Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia

Description: Texts by Andrés Burbano, Karin Ohlenschläger, Arlindo Machado, Machiko Kusahara, Gunalan Nadarajan, Eleanor Heartney, Hugues Marchal, Christiane Paul, Suzana Milevska, Linda Weintraub, Didier Ottinger, Maria Teresa Vilariño Pico, Francisco Ali-Brouchoud, Rodrigo Restrepo Ángel, Simone Osthoff, Susannah Schouweiler.

ISBN: 978-958-8319-92-6

Natural History of the Enigma & Other Works [Histoire Naturelle de l’énigme & autres travaux]

2009

Specifications: 96 pgs., 100 color photos

Language: English and French

Publisher: Al Dante

Description: Published on the occasion of Kac's solo exhibition at Rurart, contemporary art center, France. Texts by Henri-Pierre Jeudy, Eleanor Heartney, Steve Tomasula, Eduardo Kac, and an interview with the artist by Hugues Marchal.

ISBN: 978-2-84761-886-0

Eduardo Kac: Holopoèmes, Poèmes minitel, poèmes numériques, Biopoèmes

2008

Specifications: DVD

Language: French and English

Publisher: Son@art, Paris

Description: This DVD presents a large selection of Eduardo Kac's experimental poetry, including his holopoems, digital poems, and biopoems. With rare and previously unavailable footage, this DVD is the perfect companion to Kac's poetry anthology Hodibis Potax.

Life Extreme

2007

Specifications: paperback, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 128 pgs / 100 color illustrations

Language: Separate French and English editions

Publisher: Dis Voir, Paris (distributed in the USA by DAP, New York)

Description: For this artist's book Eduardo Kac has chosen to encounter philosopher Avital Ronell, who has gone beyond traditional philosophical themes to focus her thought on issues such as the telephone, drug addiction, television, tests, stupidity, and the greeting. They collaborate here on Life Extreme, at the crossroads between a natural history of human-created beings, alternative evolution, and the private lives of real but rarely-seen creatures. While the earliest documented living being in Life Extreme goes back to the 17th century, many others were first created in the XXIst century. United here for the first time, these unique plants and animals tell a different story about life on planet Earth.

ISBN: 9782914563345

ISBN: 2914563345

Eduardo Kac (sold out)

2007

Specifications: 225 pgs., 200 color photos

Language: English, Spanish, Valencian

Publisher: Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Valencia, Spain

Description: Published on the occasion of Kac's mid-career survey, curated by Ángel Kalenberg. Texts by Consuelo Císcar Casabán, Ángel Kalenberg, Didier Ottinger, Eleanor Heartney, Steve Tomasula, Gunalan Nadaranjan, Annick Bureaud, Eduardo Kac, Santiago Grisolía. Also includes a Critical Anthology, Chronology, and Bibliography.

ISBN: 978-84-482-4740-9

Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond

2007

Specifications: 480 pgs., 89 illustrations

Language: English

Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge, MA

Description: Texts by Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey, Lori Andrews, Bernard Andrieu, Brandon Ballengée, Louis Bec, Oliver Botar, Oran Catts/Ionat Zurr, Joe Davis, Richard Doyle, Vilem Flusser, Ronald J. Gedrim, George Gessert, Natalie Jeremijenko, Eduardo Kac, David Kremers, Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoit Mangin, Dominique Lestel, Marta Menezes, Yves Michaud Gunalan Nadarajan, Dorothy Nelkin, Paul Perry, Marc Quinn, Barbara Stafford, Eugene Thacker, Regina Trinidade, Paul Vanouse, Cary Wolfe, Adam Zaretsky.

ISBN: 0-262-11293-0

Media Poetry: an International Anthology (Second Edition)

2007

Specifications: 296 pgs.

Language: English

Publisher: Intellect Books, Bristol, United Kingdom

Description: Revised and enlarged edition of the first international anthology of media poetry, originally published in 1996, with texts by Jim Rosenberg, Stephanie Strickland, Eduardo Kac, Philippe Bootz, Orit Kruglanski, André Vallias, Ladislao Pablo Györi, Giselle Beiguelman, John Cayley, Bill Seaman, E. M. de Melo e Castro, Richard Kostelanetz, Eric Vos, Friedrich W. Block, Jean-Pierre Balpe and Brian Lennon.

ISBN: 1841500305

Hodibis Potax (sold out)

2007

Specifications: 144 pgs, 37 color photos

Language: English and French

Publisher: Édition Action Poétique, Ivry-sur-Seine (France) and Kibla, Maribor (Slovenia)

Description: This book collects 25 years of Kac's experimental poetry, from 1982 to 2007. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Hodibis Potax, by Eduardo Kac, realized in the context of Biennale des Poètes en Val-de-Marne (Poetry Biennial), the book includes all of Kac's groundbreaking holopoems and digital poems, as well as his proposals of and realizations in biopoetry. Completing the book is the previously unpublished text "Space Poetry", in which Kac articulates the new expressive possibilities of poetry in zero gravity.

ISBN: 978-2-85463-177-7

L'art à l'ère des biotechnologies : La question du vivant dans l'art transgénique d'Eduardo Kac [Art in the Biotech Age : The Question of the Living in the Transgenic Art of Eduardo Kac]

2007

Specifications: 209 pages

Language: French

Publisher: Éditions Le Manuscrit, Paris

Description: Monograph on Kac's Bio Art

ISBN: 2-7481-9968-5

EAN: 9782748199680

Eduardo Kac: Obras Vivas y en Red, Fotografías y Otros Trabajos [Eduardo Kac: Online and Living Works, Photographs and other pieces] (sold out)

2006

Specifications: 150 pgs, 50 color photos

Language: English and Spanish

Publisher: Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires

Description: Published in conjunction with the exhibition of the same title curated by Graciela Taquini and realized at Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires. Texts by Graciela Taquini, Jorge La Ferla, Mariela Yeregui, Linda Weintraub, Arlindo Machado, Hugues Marchal, and Gunalan Nadarajan. Includes an interview with Eduardo Kac by Graciela Taquini, a glossary of terms created by E. Kac, and a bibliography.

ISBN: 987-21343-7-5

Eduardo Kac : Move 36 (sold out)

2005

Specifications: 80 pgs, 32 color photos

Language: English and French

Publisher: Filigranes Éditions, Paris / Distributed in the USA by DAP, New York

Description: Texts by Linda Weintraub, Didier Ottinger, Elena Giulia Rossi, David Rosenberg, Frank Popper and Hugues Marchal

ISBN: 2350460126

Telepresence and Bio Art – Networking Humans, Rabbits and Robots (sold out)

2005

Specifications: 320 pgs, 145 photographs, 8 color plates

Language: English

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Description: Selected writings by Kac covering the period 1992 to 2002

ISBN: 0472068105

Spanish edition

Portuguese edition

Italian edition

Luz & Letra. Ensaios de arte, literatura e comunicação [Light & Letter. Essays in art, literature and communication]

2004

Specifications: 432 pgs, 150 photographs, 20 color plates

Language: Portuguese

Publisher: Editora Contra Capa, Rio de Janeiro

Description: Selected writings by Kac covering the period 1982 to 1988

ISBN: 858601186X

The Eighth Day: The Transgenic Art of Eduardo Kac (sold out)

2003

Specifications: 180 pgs, 32 color images

Language: English

Publisher: ASU / Distributed by DAP, New York

Description: The essays in this book -- most published here for the first time -- discuss Kac's transgenic art.

ISBN: 0972429107

It's not easy being green!

2003

Specifications: 28 pages, black and white

Language: English

Edition: 300

Publisher: Kac Studio, Chicago

Description: This artist's book focuses on the poetic and humorous public response to Kac's "GFP Bunny".

Eduardo Kac: Telepresence, Biotelematics, Transgenic Art (sold out)

2000

Specifications: 150 pages, 100 color images

Language: English

Publisher: Kibla (Maribor, Slovenia)

Description: The essays in this book--some published here for the first time--discuss Kac's work from telepresence to transgenic art. Texts by Annick Bureaud, Edward A. Shanken, Christiane Paul, Aleksandra Kostic, Suzana Milevska, Machiko Kusahara, Gerfried Stocker, Steve Tomasula, Eduardo Kac. Foreword by Peter Tomaz Dobrila.

ISBN: 961-6304-02-X

Eduardo Kac: Teleporting an Unkown State (sold out)

1998

Specifications: 150 pages, 100 color images

Language: English and Slovene

Publisher: Kibla (Maribor, Slovenia)

Description: Originally published in periodicals such as The New York Times and World Art, the essays in this book discuss multiple aspects of Kac's work.

ISBN: 961-6304-00-3

New Media Poetry: Poetic Innovation and New Technologies (sold out)

1996

Specifications: 238 pages, 45 b/w images

Language: English

Publisher: Rhode Island School of Design

Description: Anthology of critical essays by poets and critics on the new poetics that has emerged through literary experimentation with new media. Texts by Eduardo Kac, Jim Rosenberg, Philippe Bootz, E. M. de Melo e Castro, Andre Vallias, Ladislao Pablo Gyori, John Cayley, and Eric Vos.

ISSN: 0022-2224

HOLOPOETRY. Essays, manifestoes, critical and theoretical writings (sold out)

1995

Specifications: 140 pages, 20 b/w images

Language: English and Portuguese

Publisher: New Media Editions, Lexington

Description: The book collects writings that document the development of Holopoetry from 1983 to 1995

ASIN: B0006QP350

Escracho (sold out)

1983

Specifications: 16 pages, 1 poster, and 2 inserts (1 stapled; 1 loose)

Language: Portuguese with some items in English

Publisher: Sai dessa lama, jacaré!, Rio de Janeiro

Description: Escracho is an artist's book conceived, designed, and produced by Eduardo Kac in 1983 in Rio de Janeiro. It includes contributions from artists and writers from several countries in a variety of forms (visual poetry, essay, cartoon, collage, graphic narrative, photography, rubber stamp, typewriting drawing, pornograms, and photocopy).