Stelarc
Stelarc (AU) is a performance artist exploring human-machine interfaces.
Stelarc [foto © Jan Sprij]
Stelarc is a performance artist who is interested in alternate, intimate and involuntary aesthetic experiences. For this, he has used medical, robot and virtual reality systems to explore, extend and enhance the body's performance parameters. Stelarc started by acoustically and visually probing the body, amplifying his brainwaves, heartbeat, bloodflow and muscle signals and filming the inside of his lungs, stomach and colon.
Having experimented with the limitations of the body, he developed strategies to augment its capabilities, interfacing the body with prosthetics, robotics, medical imagining or computer technologies - such as the internet or virtual reality. Stelarc has performed extensively in art events all over the world, including new music, dance festivals and experimental theater.
Stelarc is Chair in Performance Art, School of Arts, Brunel University West London, UK and Senior Research Fellow and Visiting Artist in the MARCS Labs at the University of Western Sydney, Australia.
With V2_, he participated in the publications Book for the Electronic Arts (2000) and in TechnoMorphica (1997) with his essay Parasite Visions.
