Stelarc

Stelarc (Image from http://stelarc.org/?catID=20290)

Stelarc is a performance artist who uses his own body as a medium. He uses different bio technologies and digital technologies and uses his body to make both remarkable and some times disturbing artworks. He possesses third arm moving through signals and a digital arm moving by signals. He have been working from 1990 through present.

You can access some of his work from Youtube.

Recent Works

2013 DISABLED BY NORMALITY Installation: Ear On Arm, Exoskeleton Video and Third Hand Drawing 23 May- 16 September: DOX Centre of Contemporary Art, Prague The Czech Republic.

2013 ART + SCIENCE MEETING Presentation: “Meat, Metal & Code: Zombies, Cyborgs & Chimeras” 18 May- Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, Laznia Centre of Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland.

2013 ART & ROBOTICS: FREUD’S UNHEIMLICH & THE UNCANNY VALLEY Presentation: “Agency, Affect & The Uncanny” 10 May- Kongresszentrum Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany.

2013 SHE’LL BE RIGHT: A LIVE ETHICS EVENT Presentation: “Ear On Arm: Alternate Anatomical Architectures” 11 April- VCA MCM Research, Melbourne University, Australia.

2013 DALLAS SUSCON 2013 Performance: “Shadow Suspension” with Havve Fjell 30 March- Lakewood Theatre, Dallas, USA.

2013 DALLAS SUSCON 2013 Presentation: “Meat, Metal & Code: Zombie & Cyborg Bodies” 30 March- Lakewood Theatre, Dallas, USA.

2013 THE NAKED MAN Video Installation: “Remote-Controlled Suspension” 23 March-30 June- Ludwig Museum / Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest, Hungary.

2013 POETICS OF THE BODY Presentation: “Meat, Metal & Code” 18 March- Federation Hall, VCA, Melbourne University, Australia.

2013 STRP EXPO: CITY OF CYBORGS Presentation: “Meat, Metal & Code” 2 March- The Clock Building, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

Award

Ars Electronica Hybrid Arts Prize

Works

Partial Head