Minnesota Museum Exhibits Eduardo Kac

The Weisman exhibition features the transgenic plant and related prints based on the seeds produced for the project. Kac also created a large, three-dimensional fiberglass and steel sculpture based on a protein from the plant. The exhibition is named 'Eduardo Kac: Natural History of the Enigma' and will be on view through June 21, 2009.

The sculpture, now part of the Weisman's public art collection, will be located at the University's new Cargill Center for Microbial and Plant Genomics and on view beginning April 17, 2009.

Eduardo Kac is internationally recognized for his interactive net installations and bio-art. He is professor of art and technology studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has published and lectured worldwide about art, science, and culture.

Neil Olszewski, professor of plant biology at the University of Minnesota, coordinated the fabrication of the transgenic plant and the source of a protein that determined the public artwork's form. -- www.weisman.umn.edu