Pioneering digital artist Eduardo Kac on his controversial career and sending his art into space:
. The center of the work was the very real rabbit Alba, an albino rabbit engineered by splicing the green fluorescent protein of a jellyfish into her genome. Can you tell us more about the project?GFP means “green fluorescent protein.” On the material level, I used GFP on these three works. I worked with bacteria, which is to say single-celled organisms, the simplest form of life.
That was the key point: for the flower to use my DNA and produce a human protein in its body. And in fact, that does take place. We have to remember that flowers do not make human proteins in nature, but in this particular case, it does, because my DNA is placed under the control of a promoter that triggers the production of that protein. And because humans are animals, this flower is a plant with an animal characteristic, which in this particular case is the production of a human protein.
I think that we must demonstrate that, in reality, there isn’t an opposition, there isn’t a hierarchy. We’re all different, but we’re all interconnected. The moment we begin to undo these hierarchies we can see ourselves in a different light where there is more equity., in which I transplant human DNA into a flower.
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