Recognized as one of the leading figures in media art, 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. Kac‘s work explores but goes beyond human language and culture to encompass human nonverbal communication as well as communication in all living organisms and sign processes within organisms. The artist's central subject matter is communication, its fundamental role from molecular interaction between cells to human dialogue, from animal communication to social remote exchanges via networks. His visionary combination of robotics, biotechnology and networking explores the fluidity of subject positions in the post-digital world. The work featured in this exhibition deals with issues that range from the changing condition of memory in the digital age (Time Capsule) to distributed collective agency (Teleporting an Unknown State), from the cultural impact of biotechnology (Genesis) to the creation of life and evolution (GFP Bunny). The exhibition is organized chronologically, from one of Kac's earliest holopoems , Chaos (1986), to one of his most recent works, "Lagoglyphs: The Bunny Variations"(2007).

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