Talk by international performance artist STELARC
Posted on February 12, 2008 - Filed Under Media, Photography, Video |
ALTERNATE ANATOMICAL ARCHITECTURES: EXTRA EAR / INTERNET ORGAN
Wednesday, 27th February, 2008, 5 pm, Theatre (ET233), Ellen Terry Building, Coventry School of Art and Design, Coventry University, Coventry CV1 5FB.
The event is free and open to the public, but places need to be booked by emailing Laura Rienesl-Sherwin at l.rienesl-sherwin@coventry.ac.uk.
Stelarc is an Australian artist who has used prosthetics, robotics, VR systems, the Internet and biotechnology to explore alternate, intimate and involuntary interfaces with the body. Some of his projects include the THIRD HAND, the STOMACH SCULPTURE, EXOSKELTON, the EXTRA EAR and the PROSTHETIC HEAD. Recently he has performed and exhibited in “Transfigure” (ACMI, Melbourne); the “Clemenger Contemporary Art Award” (NGV, Melbourne); the Yokohama Triennale; the “Microwave Media Arts Festival” (Hong Kong); and “Ars Electronica”.
In 1997 he was appointed Honorary Professor of Art and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2002 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate and was artist-in-residence in the Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University, Caulfield. He is currently Chair in Performance Art, School of Arts, Brunel University. He is a recipient of a New Media Arts Fellowship from the Australia Council for 2005-2007. His artwork is represented by the Sherman Galleries in Sydney. The talk will focus on Stelarc’s recent projects, which tentatively and imperfectly explore alternate anatomical architectures that incorporate physiologically plausible structures and re-wirings. They also postulate hybrids of biology and technology and actual-virtual chimeras, i.e. operational and living systems as mixed and augmented realities. In so doing they raise questions about the obsolescence of the body and its present form and functions. The Prosthetic Head, the Partial Head, the Extra Ear and the Walking Head are indicative of virtual, partially living and hybrid robotic systems that exhibit varying degrees of liveness.
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