Stelarc is the most celebrated artist in the world working within technology and the visual arts. He is both an artist and a phenomenon, using his body as medium and exhibition space. Working in the interface between the body and the machine, employing virtual reality, robotics, medical instruments, prosthetics, and the Internet, Stelarc's art includes physical acts that don't always look survivable—or, as science fiction novelist William Gibson puts it in his foreword, "sometimes seem to include the possibility of terminality." Stelarc's projects include Third Hand, a grasping and wrist rotating mechanism with a rudimentary sense of touch that is attached to the artist and activated by EMG from other body areas; Amplified Body, in which the artist performs acoustically with his brainwaves, muscles, pulse, and blood flow signals; and the Stomach Sculpture, a device—or "aesthetic adornment"—placed in the artist's stomach and presented through video. Works in progress include the Extra Ear Project, a soft prosthesis of skin and cartilage to be constructed on the artist's arm. Stelarc's work both reflects and determines new directions in performance art and body art. Although there have been hundreds of articles written about Stelarc since he began performing in the late 1960s, Stelarc: The Monograph is the first comprehensive study of Stelarc's work practice in over thirty years. Gathering a range of writers who approach the work from a variety of perspectives, it includes William Gibson's account of his meetings with Stelarc, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker's emphatic "WE ARE ALL STELARCS NOW," and Stelarc himself in conversation with Marquard Smith. Taken together, these writers give us a multiplicity of ways to think about Stelarc.

Stelarc: The Monograph

Arts & Photography

Jones, Amelia

Kroker, Arthur

Massumi, Brian

Kroker, Marilouise

Druckrey, Timothy

Goodall,Jane

Stelarc

Individual Artists

Mit Pr

Body Invaders: Panic Sex in America (Culture Texts)

Book by Kroker, Arthur; Kroker, Marilouise (eds.)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Body Invaders: Panic Sex in America (Culture Texts) [Mar 01, 1988] Kroker, Arthur and Kroker, Marilouise ...

Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene (Culture Texts Series)

Cook,david

Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene

St Martins Pr

Spasm is the 1990s. A theory-fiction about the crash world of virtual reality, from the cold sex of Madonna Mutant, the pure sex of Michael Jackson and the dead sex of Elvis to the technological fetishes of Silicon Valley. Written from the perspectives of cultural politics, music, photography, cinema and cyber-machine art,Spasm explores the ecstasy and fadeout of wired culture. Here, we suddenly find ourselves the inhabitants of a glittering, but vaguely menacing, technological galaxy where the machines finally begin to speak.
Spasm is a book/CD to take along with you on your hacker journey of the electronic frontier.

Spasm: Virtual Reality, Android Music and Electric Flesh (Culture Texts)

Sterling, Bruce

History & Criticism

St. Martin's: Griffin

Smelling the virtual flowers and counting the road-kill on the digital superhighway are just a couple of things that Kroker and Weinstein explain. Others include: the theory of the virtual class; virtual ideology; the will to virtuality; the political economy of virtual reality; prime time reports; virtual (photographic) culture; and the virtual history file.

Data Trash: The Theory of Virtual Class (Culture Texts)

Sociology

Hacking the Future tells the story of what happens when information technology escapes the high tech labs of Silicon Valley and invades the sites of everyday culture. It includes some of the survival tales of people who just want to feel again in a culture that is numbed and purified. A spoken word CD is included.

Hacking the Future: Stories for the Flesh-Eating 90s (CULTURETEXTS)

The Postmodern Scene: Excremental Culture and Hyper-Aesthetics

The Postmodern Scene is a series of major theorisations about key artistic and intellectual tendencies in the postmodern condition

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