Eduardo Kac and the Art of Spinning

Brazilian bioartist, Eduardo Kac, is indisputably a great master of the spin, a veritable communication genius. By means of a most ordinary image, he fashioned a hyperreal sign that has come to represent, for many, "bioart" and bioengineering practices. The image is of a lime-green rabbit, its distinct hue evidently acquired by Photoshop manipulation.

Author: Ernestine Daubner

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