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	Extended-Body: Interview with Stelarc
		Stelarc: Well you have to remember the suspension events weren't the initial, sort of primitive and physically difficult events and the technology ones were the more recent, more sophisticated ones.
		Stelarc: It was the Hindu Indian ones that I knew about, but one has to put this into the context that for 5 years I was doing suspension events with ropes and harnesses, with a lot of technology.
		Stelarc: It is time to recolonise the body with microminaturised robots to augment out bacterial population, to assist our immunological system, and to monitor the capillary and internal tracts of the body.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/HPS/stelarc/a29-extended_body.html (2537 words)

	stelarc . . . post human guru (siits 2)
		Stelarc's work is visually challenging, in that the use of the body is on par with some of the most daring of human feats.
		Stelarc has most recently been concerned with the human/machine interface, inserting machines and technologies, cyber systems etc. into his body, in an attempt to allow the body to act more precisely, more powerfully.
		Stelarc's visions are of a co-dependent society, where the borders between human and machine become blurred.
	members.tripod.com /~Sadness_IsIn_The_Sky/stelarc.html (856 words)

	Untitled Document
		Stelarc's work is based on the central idea that the human body has become obsolete, or rather; "biologically inadequate." Since the late 1960's, Stelarc has created a vast and impressive body of work dedicated to the physical enhancement of the human body through technological means.
		Stelarc's quest for a technologically compatible body has sometimes been regarded as fascist, but the artist insists that he is not playing the role of Dr. Frankenstein and remains optimistic in his techno-vision of enhancing human life.
		Stelarc says that it may be the "height of technical folly to consider the body obsolete in form and function," but then notes that it may be "the height of human realizations." The artist refrains from giving hard answers but is full of suggestions.
	www.digibodies.org /online/Stelarc.htm (1181 words)

	CyberStage 1.2: Stelarc
		Stelarc explains that the interest in this project was not so much the seduction of being immersed in a VR space but rather experiencing phantom-limb effects, similar to the phenomenon where amputees lose an arm and still sense that it's there.
		Stelarc claims that "there is a blurring of distinction between what an organism is and what a mechanism is. I mean, I did a performance in a gallery for eight hours where 800 people came to the gallery and activated a program that got my body moving in different ways [through electrodes].
		Stelarc avoids making moral or value judgements on the role of technology in society, as he believes that value judgements are always difficult to make and always contentious.
	www.cyberstage.org /archive/cstage12/stelrc.htm (1428 words)

	Stelarc, Cyberhuman? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Echoing their fin-de-millenium terminology, Stelarc himself talks about living in the last day of the human, a post-Frankensteinian world, in which the boundary between humans and machines already blurred.
		Although he admits that they were painful, Stelarc distances himself from what he sees as the outdated fundamentalism of much body art.
		Certainly, it could be argued that Stelarc has constructed his blueprints for the body of the future in a social vacuum.
	www.fiu.edu /~mizrachs/stelarc.html (801 words)

	Le Navire Night
		Stelarc: In the New York performance, the preparation was done on the fourth floor room and there was a cable stretched from inside the window to the other side and there was a kind of police structure that the body was connected to.
		Stelarc: It was dangerous if the lasers were directed into the crowd because it's like about 750 milliwatts per channel and if you get hit directly in the eye for a second, you could burn the whole retina.
		Stelarc: I could actually see the laser beams coming from the eyes and I could see where the lasers were being directed at but it's not to say that there wasn't a possibility of an accident but you don't plan for that, you don't expect that to happen.
	www.radio-canada.ca /radio/navire/rencontres_stelarc.html (4409 words)

	SWITCH \| JOURNAL
		In Stelarc, we find reflected these mutant strains of the monstrous and the ultra-normal, the bizarre and the ordinary, the shocking and the clichéd, the showman and the charlatan.
		Stelarc’s performance work can be related to the philosophical critiques of the subject arising out of cultural and media theory of the late sixties.
		As subject aware of bodily mortality, Stelarc seeks to supplement a fragile, temporal body with an accretion of technology, overcoming the mortality of existence with the immortality of technology.
	switch.sjsu.edu /v19/00001r (842 words)

	Metobody : Stelarc and the Sum of His Parts
		The contrail reminder of Stelarc's "having been there" logically connects the early suspensions with the third hand events, the performances which introduced the industrial robots to the "involuntary muscle stimulation events" via the "stomach sculptures" step with the "now", the point where he has surrendered his body.
		Stelarc is empirically demonstrating that the controlled body is physiologically and technologically possible right now, but his philosophical proposals will meet, I fear, the popular reluctance to embrace change.
		The meme package of ideas which Stelarc presents, is so fundamentally challenging to the status quo that he and his memes must be attacked to safeguard the very foundations of our present societal structure.
	murlin.va.com.au /metabody/text/stelarcparts.htm (746 words)

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		there's an uneasy aura to Stelarc's work, conditioned in part by his past body-sus- pension pieces (with hooks through the skin); one might say that bodies float free (as in dreams) but always at a cost (as in dreams).
		Stelarc poses all of this in clear models, deficient, if at all, in considerations of gender - Irigarayan flux replaced by confined air or liquid, fluid mechanics transformed into digital horizons.
		Stelarc crosses his body with early-early tech; parts are left behind; he'd perhaps leave the whole behind; i'd bring the hole back in.
	www.museumsnett.no /alias/HJEMMESIDE/bjornmag/nettext/stelarc.txt (2727 words)

	CTheory.net
		Stelarc was naked, his skin from shoulders to near his kneecaps, had hooks inserted with wires that ran through mounted pulleys that tugged and stretched his skin as he was raised up.
		Stelarc's art, often referred to as cyborg experiments, integrates inorganic matter with his body by renewing the neural activity that maintains equilibrium.
		In this demonstration, Stelarc records the body, as cameras with body markers or electromagnetic sensors record its movements and positions, and these are grafted onto a virtual host or avatar.
	www.ctheory.net /text_file.asp?pick=354 (1893 words)

	Artist's body stunts bring technology to a higher level (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Stelarc's video display also showed an up-close-and-personal account of a sculpture he made for the Australian Sculpture Exhibition, "Triannally." The show's theme was site-specific works.
		Stelarc wore the third hand - the students were hooked to him by cables.
		Stelarc's week-long visit to the UW includes meeting with art students individually to critique their work.
	archives.thedaily.washington.edu /1996/050396/art050396.html (602 words)

	Stelarc: Hard-wired, suspended and contemplating the post evolutionary human (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Currently based in Australia, Stelarc lived in Japan for 20 years and was profoundly influenced by the technology there.
		Recently Stelarc has interfaced his body with the Internet using electrical muscle stimulators in order to allow individuals in other countries to manipulate his body through the Internet.
		Stelarc speaks of the post-evolutionary human, a naked ape hybridized with technology in order to function faster and more efficiently in an increasingly technological world.
	archives.thedaily.washington.edu /1996/050996/stelarc.html (1221 words)

	CTheory.net
		Stelarc maintains that "...we fear what we have always been and what we have already become..." suggesting that what we remain ignorant of, that is, our automatic and involuntary behavior is that which makes us like these very constructs which haunt our imagination.
		Stelarc acknowledges that it is language that tends to "...reinforce Platonic, Cartesian and Freudian constructs of internal representations, of essences, of egos...", however, by isolating the Prosthetic Head as an object-in-itself -- as prosthesis, he unwittingly stages technology as distinct from the body.
		Stelarc's proposed tissue-engineered facial portrait, mentioned above, would by all accounts constitute matter that is alive, in that each of the cells would interact with each other in their environment, but they cannot interact in any meaningful way with the outside world.
	www.ctheory.net /articles.aspx?id=491 (4045 words)

	Stelarc
		Stelarc est presque nu, son corps est bardé d’électrodes, et il est rattaché aux machines par une série de câbles traînant derrière lui.
		Stelarc " considère le corps humain comme une somme de pièces détachées et cherche à les remplacer par des prothèses, notamment un troisième bras.
		Stelarc estime que pour survivre et empêcher le vieillissement, il convient de poser sur le corps une peau synthétique susceptible de résister à toutes les températures et à tous les chocs.
	stephan.barron.free.fr /technoromantisme/stelarc.html (2250 words)

	Laughlin, Charles THE EVOLUTION OF CYBORG CONSCIOUSNESS
		Stelarc is performing with what is essentially an artificial, mechanical, silver limb that is controlled by and mimics his muscle movements.
		Stelarc is combining stages I and stage II of what Charles Laughlin describes as stages of “Cyborg Consciousness”.
		As for Stelarc, this might be his final project if he decided to replace such fleshware.
	www.utdallas.edu /~mtaaris/huas6392/Stelarc.htm (976 words)

	review2
		We could defend Stelarc by saying that he only speaks, writes and performs particular types of obsolescence: 'as interface, the skin is obsolete' (58), 'the obsolescence of the ego-agent driven biological body could not be more apparent' (59).
		While it is difficult to know what significance to attribute to Stelarc's statements (since he says they are 'poetic speculations' and therefore have to be read as part of his work), there are problems here as to which body he means, and as to what he understands by body form and function.
		Stelarc's work from beginning to end 'pulls the skin to stretch the terms of subjectivity itself' (52).
	culturemachine.tees.ac.uk /Reviews/rev33.htm (2540 words)

	noise!: STELARC : Cybernetic Visionary
		Since his earliest performances, STELARC has incorporated numerous technological devices into his works in order to effectively demonstrate to others his concepts regarding the relationship between human and machine - while hinting at the possibilities the merging of the two might offer in the future.
		In essence, what STELARC proposes is the development of the cyborg, a creation akin to the Terminator in concept (but obviously without the accent and penchant for big guns).
		The Ping Body performance was not a one-off; STELARC is an articulate and educated man who has extensively written and lectured on his theories of human/machine symbiosis, and his performance art gives him the chance to experiment and relate to others his ideas in a practical and visual sense.
	www.loud.net.au /noise/display_stories/1-90000/901-1200/display_stories_955.html (782 words)

	SIAL - stelarc
		Stelarc is an Australian artist who has performed extensively in Japan, Europe and the USA.
		Recent projects include a Prosthetic Head, an embodied conversational agent which responds to the person who interrogates it and a 1/4 scale replica of the artist’s ear was grown with human cells as a step towards constructing an extra ear on his arm.
		Stelarc was a Visiting Fellow for the Skins of Intimate Distance Liveness and Affect week held at SIAL in August, 2003.
	www.sial.rmit.edu.au /People/stelarc.php (327 words)

	New Media Art - Artist: STELARC - M/Cyclopedia of New Media
		STELARC is an Australian based performance artist, who works primarily in the field of New Media Art.
		Stelarcs reseach revolves around the idea that like computers, our bodies need to continue evolution, and be continually updated or improved.
		Stelarc was born Stelios Arcadiou in Limassol, island of Cyprus (http://www.cyprusisland.com/01_Information/limassol.htm) on June 19 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19_June), 1946 (Stelarc, 2004).
	wiki.media-culture.org.au /index.php?title=New_Media_Art_-_Artist:_STELARC&printable=yes (896 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Artist seeks internet-enabled third ear
		While prosthetic surgery is generally thought of in the terms of replacing a missing or defective body part, a group of artists is looking at prosthetics as a means of enhancing the body's form and functions.
		This is the latest undertaking of UK-based Stelarc, whose many projects and performances explore prosthetic augmentation of the body.
		Stelarc is a principal research fellow in the Performance Arts Digital Research Unit at the Nottingham Trent University, UK.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/3096623.stm (615 words)

	Stelarc - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stelarc (born Stelios Arcadiou on June 19, 1946) to Greek Cypriot parents is an Australian performance artist whose works focus heavily on futurism and extending the capabilities of the human body.
		His works have been heralded for their abilities to embrace a wider audience, the best example of this was his allowance for the worldwide audience to log into the exhibition and thus access or control the electrodes his own body was hooked up to.
		In 1995 Stelarc was awarded a 3 year fellowship from the Australia Council for the Arts.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stelarc (367 words)

	Tissue Culture and Art Project in collaboration with Stelarc
		In this collaboration a quarter-scale replica of Stelarc's ear is grown using human cells.
		Stelarc's recent projects and performances are concerned with the prosthetic.
		Stelarc, ultimately, is concerned with the attachment of the ear to the body as a soft prosthesis.
	www.eaf.asn.au /biotech/tca.html (589 words)

	TIME Europe Magazine: Mar. 11, 2002 -- The Body Electric - 1
		Stelarc is a living example of the strange and surprising ways technology is getting onto — and under — our skin.
		Stelarc believes this kind of merger between man and machine will soon make its way from performance art venues into our living rooms.
		What Stelarc, who began his career in the 1960s as a "failed painter," is doing out of artistic choice, Brian Holgersen, a 30-year-old Danish tetraplegic, is doing out of physical necessity.
	www.time.com /time/europe/magazine/article/0,13005,901020311-214250,00.html (1049 words)

	ESCAPE VELOCITY - - Fractal Flesh: Stelarc's Aesthetic of Prosthetics
		Blipped across the net through a high-speed link to the computer in the performance space, their gestures triggered Stelarc's muscle-stimulators; low- level bursts of voltage, zapping through electrodes attached to his limbs, caused both arms and one leg to jerk involuntarily into raised or extended positions.
		A self-described "evolutionary alchemist" dedicated to "triggering mutations [and] transforming the human landscape," Stelarc is a standard-bearer for McLuhan's vision of the artist as the "antennae of the race" (a phrase McLuhan borrowed from Ezra Pound).
		This philosophical tendency is associated with Deleuze and Guattari, who championed a fragmented, "decentered" self in opposition to the bounded, integrated ego that supposedly anchors the rationalist, capitalist world-view of post-Enlightenment Western culture.
	www.levity.com /markdery/ESCAPE/VELOCITY/author/stelarc.html (1038 words)

	Stelarc - BME Encyclopedia
		Stelarc is an Australian performance artist who bases his work around his theories and beliefs that the human body is obsolete and in need of improvement.
		Stelarc still performs around the world and lectures on his art and ideas, but he no longer suspends.Now, Stelarc concentrates on augmenting his body via mechanical prosthesis, controlled in various ways, through pneumatic pistons in his "Third Arm" project and the "Hexapod" or triggered by remote internet connections such as "The Ping Body."
		Stelarc's latest projects include grafting a third ear onto his body (the third ear is currently being grown at the University of Western Australia) and "Disembodied Intelligence" personified by a scaled up 3D image of Stelarc's own head, projected onto a screen which a viewer can then converse with through a keyboard.
	wiki.bmezine.com /index.php/Stelarc (203 words)

	Stelarc: Technologie als Weiterführung des Körpers
		Stelarc wird die nächsten Monate in Hamburg verbringen und bereitet für den kommenden Herbst eine Performance in dieser Stadt vor.
		Stelarc: Diese Ideen sind bei mir keine reine Spekulationen, wie in der Science Fiction Literatur, sondern umgesetzte und erlebbare Realität.Wir reden nicht von Symbolen und Metaphern für den Körper, sondern vom Körper selber.
		Stelarc: Ich habe diese Aktionen nach einer Reihe von extremen Experimenten mit sensorischer Deprivation gemacht.
	www.peshawar.ch /tech/mm-stelarc.htm (2409 words)

	ON STELARC : Alan Sondheim [BeeHive 04:01]
		Stelarc the dispersed and central focus of attention.
		Brian Rotman's Ad Infinitum: The Ghost in Turing's Machine: Taking God Out of Mathematics and Putting the Body Back In - just as it was almost safe to sinter the other way around, turning byte and bite into ash and powder - towards the elimination of the transcendental - i'd also say the technological sublime.
		"Most of these suspension events were done in remote locations or private gallery spaces."..."personal history becomes intertwined with all of this." Stelarc was a squash coach in Japan; he also did yoga for twenty years.
	beehive.temporalimage.com /content_apps41/sondheim_stelarc/1.html (3293 words)

	Stelarc Video Interview: TransVision 2004 [The Publisher’s Ring]
		Stelarc is friendly and approachable, and most of all down to earth with an easy boisterous laugh.
		Stelarc also showed some of the work he’s been doing on his “third ear” project, in which a replica of his own ear will be implanted into another part of his body — instead of listening though, this ear may talk instead.
		Not only is Stelarc one of the seeds of the suspension movement, but he’s also an important seed in cyborg culture, distributed intelligence, technoethics, and other fields he likely never knew he was even performing for.
	www.bmezine.com /news/pubring/20040813.html (1172 words)

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