Meeting with Eduardo Kac: de la poésie bactérienne à la poésie dans l'espace

After the venue of Alain Damasio, the EPFL Library joins le "Printemps de la Poésie" and Basel University to welcome the American poet and artist, Eduardo Kac, on Wednesday 14, 2018, from 5 pm, at the EPFL Library

This poet came especially from Chicago, where he teaches, to present the subjects of his poetic research: bacteria, holograms, the human body, fluorescent laboratory rabbits or poetry in the orbital station. Professor Hugues Marchal (UNIBAS), one of the leading specialist in 18th century to present day French scientific poetry, will be present at this exceptional meeting.

17h: Welcoming participants to the EPFL Library
17h30: Introduction by Hugues Marchal, with a broad historical context
17h45: First discussion with Eduardo Kac around the Manifesto of Biopesis and Bio-poems
18h10: Second discussion around Télescope intérieur, artistic and poetic performance imagined by Eduardo Kac
18h20: Screening of an excerpt from the film [Télescope intérieur]
18h25: Third discussion
18h40: Debate with the public
19h: Aperitif

Biography

Inter, Volume 128 : technocorps et cybermilieux / Michaël La Chance, Philippe Boisnard, Hortense Gauthier, Catherine Duchesneau, Magali Uhl, Mouloud Boukala, Teva Flaman, Pierre-Luc Verville, Hélène Matte, Bruno Lemoine, André Gervais, Paul Ardenne, Julien St-Georges Tremblay, Nathalie Côté, Nathalie Bachand, Jacques Dongu; Québec : Editions Intervention, 2018.
Télescope intérieur: une oeuvre spatiale d’Eduardo Kac / Virgile Novarina, Eduardo Kac, Thomas Pesquet, Gérard Azoulay, Hugues Marchal; [Paris]: a.p.r.e.s, 2017.
La vie, la lumière & le langage = Life, light & language / Eduardo Kac; Enghien-les-Bains : Centre des arts, 2011.
Life extreme : guide illustré de nouvelles formes de vie / Eduardo Kac & Avital Ronell ; [traduit de l’anglais par Chantal Anne et Stephan May]; Paris : Dis voir, 2007.
Hodibis Potax / Eduardo Kac; Ivry-sur-Seine : Action poétique, 2007.
Media poetry : an international anthology / Eduardo Kac, editor; Bristol : Intellect, 2007.
Signs of life : bio art and beyond / Eduardo Kac, editor; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2007