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
participated in
1990 National Summer School
Date
1990
Description

ANAT’s 1990 National Summer School in Computer Aided Art, Design and Manufacture, held at and supported by the Advanced Technology Education Centre (ATEC), Regency College of TAFE in Adelaide, attracted the participation of 19 artists from around Australia, an increase of the twelve who attended the inaugural school in 1989 …

Type
Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/4987
Note
Attended
participated in
Tell Me Tell Me: Australian and Korean Art 1976-2011
Date
17 June 2011 - 19 February 2012
Description

This exhibition was a first-time collaboration between the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney and the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul (NMOCA), and was comprised of a two-part cultural exchange of art and ideas …

Type
Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/3722
Note
Included in
participated in
Face to Face: Portraiture in the Digital Age
Date
2008 - 2011
Description

A National touring program curated by Kathy Cleland exploring new forms of portraiture that incorporate a variety of different technologies from digital prints to single channel digital video and interactive installations …

Type
Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/3641
Note
Included in
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
participated in
The Performing Body
Date
1998
Description

Curated by Victoria Lynn
Artist included: Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Joseph Beuys, Gunter Brus, Chris Burden, Valie Export, Gilbert and George, Joan Jonas, Ana Mendieta, Paul McCarthy and Mike Kelley, Otto Muehl, Dennis Oppenheim, Mike Parr, Jackson Pollock, Jill Scott, Irm and Ed Sommer, Stelarc, Ken Unsworth, Hannah Wilke

Scanlines

Type
Other event
Website
http://scanlines.net/node/4346
Note
Included in
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
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  • DEAF '96 - Digital Territories (exhibited at)
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  • NIPAF '96 - Third Nippon Performance Art Festival (exhibited at)
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  • Padua Biennale (Oltra La Scultura) (exhibited at)
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  • Generated Realities II - The Body and Computer (exhibited at)
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  • Interfaces - Art and Technology. An Exhibition from the Griffith University Art Collection (exhibited at)
  • The Fifth Australian Sculpture Triennale (exhibited at)
  • Exoskeleton: Structure for electromagnetic Fields (exhibited at)
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  • The Edge Biennale (exhibited at)
  • Fuel (exhibited at)
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  • 1990 National Summer School (participated in)
  • Biennale of Sydney: Recent International Forms in Art (exhibited at)