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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exhibited at
Ars Electronica
Place
Ars Electronica Centre, Linz, Austria
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Transfigure: Perception, Body, Space and Landscape
Date
2003
Place
ACMI, Federation Square, Melbourne, Vic.
Description

Installation – 'Prosthetic Head’

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Clemenger Contemporary Art Award
Date
2003
Place
Ian Potter Centre, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourner, Vic.
Description
Type
Exhibition
Website
http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/clemenger2003/
exhibited at
2nd Biennale of Contemporary Art in Goteborg
Date
2003
Place
Museum of Art, Goteborg, Sweden
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Tissue Culture & Art Project
Date
2003
Place
Galerija Kapelica, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Description

Collaborative installation – 'Extra Ear 1/4 Scale’

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Interaccess
Date
2003
Place
Interaccess, Toronto, Canada
Description

Installation 'Prosthetic Head’

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
New Territories
Date
2003
Place
The Arches, Glasgow, Scotland
Description

Installation 'Prosthetic Head’. Also shown at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 2003

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Alternate Interfaces
Date
2003
Place
Monash Faculty Gallery, Caulfield, Melbourne, Vic.
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Immersion, Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP)
Date
2002
Place
John Curtin Gallery, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA
Description

Part of the Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (Locus), which was staged between 31 July and 15 September, 2002.

Type
Exhibition
Tags
Digital, Technology, Body, New media, Electronic art
exhibited at
Temporal Being: Microwave Media Arts Festival
Date
2002
Place
Hong Kong City Hall, Hong Kong
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Biennale of Electronic Arts in Perth
Date
2002
Place
Curtin Museum of Art, Perth, WA
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Yokohama Triennale
Date
2001
Place
Red Brick Buildings, Sakuragicho, Japan
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
International Sculpture Festival
Date
2001
Place
The Old Stock Exchange, Pittsburgh, USA
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Cybercultures
Date
2000
Place
Casula Powerhouse, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Body Language - Olympic Arts Festival
Date
2000
Place
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, NSW
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Art is Ego: Das Labyrinth
Date
1999
Place
Petersberg, Erfurt, Germany
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Soft Machine - Design in the Cyborg Age
Date
1998
Place
Stedilijk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Out of Actions 1949 - 1979
Date
1998
Place
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA
Description

Featured photographs of 'Lateral Suspension’

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Fukui Biennale - Media and the Human Body
Date
1997
Place
City Museum of Contemporary Art, Fukui, Japan
Description

Performance of 'Parasite: Event for Invaded and Involuntary Body’

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
ICC Biennale '97 - Communication / Discommunication
Date
1997
Place
ICC, Tokyo, Japan
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Relay
Date
February 1996
Place
Artspace, Auckland, NZ
Description

Performance of 'Involuntary Body/Third Hand’

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
DEAF '96 - Digital Territories
Date
1996
Place
V2 / Lantaren, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Description

Performance of 'Ping Body: An Internet Actuated Event’

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Totally Wired
Date
1996
Place
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
Description
Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
Digital Aesthetics
Date
1996
Place
Artspace, Sydney, NSW
Description

Performance of 'Fractal Flesh’

Type
Exhibition
exhibited at
NIPAF '96 - Third Nippon Performance Art Festival
Date
1996
Place
Welfare Centre Hall, Nagano, Japan
Description
Type
Exhibition
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