Eduardo Kac waters plants with his blood

Someone told me during a lecture on technophobias and cyborgs that there is an artist or, should I call him, bio-engineer, who makes experiments on living things, which he then calls art. Well, I wouldn't be so sure about it, but since I'm very open-minded about art, there must be something to it. This artist is namely Eduardo Kac, an American contemporary artist, who has been experimenting since the 1990. For example, one of his projects included himself having implanted a microchip inside his own body (he was then one of the first people to do such a thing). One of his most famous works was entitled "Alba", which was a rabbit. Kac implanted a green fluorescent protein inside the rabbit, a specific gene from a jellyfish, which made the rabbit green-fluorescent (creepy!). No one knows if the rabbit is still alive though.

The other project included a petunia potted flower. Kac called it "Edunia", a genetically engineered flower that is a hybrid of the artist and a petunia. The Edunia expressed Kac's DNA through its red veins.

The flower was invented and produced through molecular biology. It had red veins on light pink petals and a gene of the artist, which was isolated and sequenced from his own blood. 

Both projects could be last seen in Barcelona, Spain on an exhibition entilted Kac: Alba & Edunia.