Stelarc b. 1946

Also known as Stelios Arcadiou
  • Artist (Screen Artist),
  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Artist (Sculptor),
  • Artist (Digital Artist/Designer),
  • Artist (Performance Artist)
Stelarc is a performance, installation and new media artist who has performed and exhibited in Japan, Europe and the United States. Using medical instruments, prosthetics, robotics, virtual reality systems, the Internet and biotechnology, Stelarc explores alternate, intimate and involuntary interfaces with the body.
Tags: Prosthesis, Robotics, Body, Performance, BEAP
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Courtesy of: Scanlines
creator of
Movatar
Medium
Installation
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3360
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=1388

Imagine an avatar that can perform in the 'real’ world by accessing a physical body …

 
creator of
Stelarc: Meat, Metal, Code
Date
Medium
Interview
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/6034
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prBMk72mwsg

Famed for pushing the boundaries of performance art and biotechnology, Stelarc previews startling new scientific developments set to transform our relationships to our bodies and our selves.
Presented by Institute of Art and Ideas in Britain.

 
creator of
The Body is Obsolete
Date
Medium
Video
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/1005
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKEfJRe4uys

Screener for Stelarc – The Body is Obsolete distributed online worldwide by Contemporary Arts Media:http://www.artfilms.com.au/Detail.aspx?ItemID=220Code: KD-Stel
DVD & CD-ROM ...

 
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Courtesy of: Scanlines
creator of
Prosthetic Head
Date
Medium
Installation
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3396
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=1432

The Prosthetic Head is an embodied conversational agent (ECA) that speaks to the person who interrogates it …

 
creator of
Hexapod
Date

digital 3-D animation DVD. Produced in collaboration with in collaboration with the Performance Arts Digital Research Unit at the Nottingham Trent University and the Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems Group, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at the University of Sussex, funded by The Wellcome Trust and the AHRB, UK.

 
creator of
Motion Prosthesis
Date

pneumatic upper-body actuator

 
creator of
The Extended Arm
Date

pneumatic 11 degrees-of-freedom manipulator

 
creator of
Exosceleton
Date

performance video documentation

 
creator of
Extra Ear
Date
Medium
Installation
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3358
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=1386

Imagine an ear as an internet antenna …

 
creator of
Fractal Flesh, Ping Body and Parasite internet performances
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creator of
Muscle Stimulator System
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creator of
Stomach Sculpture
Date
URL
http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/stomach/stomach.html
 
creator of
Virtual Arm Project
Date
URL
http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/virtarm/virtarm.html
 
creator of
Event for Stretched Skin
Date
Medium
Single channel video work
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/856

Videotape of performance recorded in Tokyo, Japan, 1975 …

 
creator of
Suspensions
Date
URL
http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/suspens/suspens.html

With insertions into the skin

 
creator of
Third Hand Project
Date
URL
http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/third/third.html
 
creator of
(Sensory deprivation events and body suspensions with harness)
Date
 
creator of
Amplified body
Date
URL
http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/ampbod/ampbod.html

EEG, ECG, EMG, bloodflow, kinetic angle transducers, position sensors