Today's Topics:
Stelarc
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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 12:26:15 -0500
From: Eric Haines <erich@eye.com>
Message-Id: <9302241726.AA22510@hemlock>
To: subgenius@media-lab.media.mit.edu
Subject: Stelarc
Because I knew you needed to know.
- Eric Haines ("157th Incarnation of the Inexorable World Egg" to friends)
Originally from: Scott Minneman <minneman@parc.xerox.com>
It's always tough to separate the hype from the experience when it comes
to Stelarc's work, but this promises to almost make it worthwhile to be
in Pittsburgh this Thursday...
The STUDIO for Creative Inquiry
presents:
S T E L A R C
International Performance Artist Who Explores Body-Machine Symbiosis
Thursday, February 25, at noon in Skibo Ballroom
(previously scheduled for College of Fine Arts 314C)
In addition to slide and film presentations of his previous performances, he
will demonstrate the "Third Arm," a robotic arm capable of independent motion
by receiving electronic impulses from his body's muscles.
Stelarc's past work tested the limits of the body to prove that it is
"obsolete." In order to explore the body's limitations, he has suspended
himself by his skin with steel hooks, had his eyes and mouth sewn shut for 75
hours, and filmed the inside of his stomach, lungs, and colon. Now Stelarc's
performances deal with the expansion of the body's capabilities; amplifying
its sounds, reflecting lasers from his eyes, and incorporating the independent
movement of the robotic "Third Arm."
"The significance of technology may be that it culminates in an alien
awareness--one that is POSTHISTORIC, TRANSHUMAN and even EXTRATERRESTRIAL."
Stelarc in "Leonardo-Journal of the International Society
for the Arts, Sciences and Technology," 1991
"Is he space cadet or future human?"
Jim McClellan in "i-D" (British magazine of popular culture)
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