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.
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Name
Stelarc
Also known as Stelios Arcadiou
Gender
Male
Roles
  • Artist (Screen Artist)
  • Artist (Installation Artist)
  • Artist (Sculptor)
  • Artist (Digital Artist/Designer)
  • Artist (Performance Artist)
Birth date
1946
Birth place
Limassol, Cyprus
Active Period
  • 1968-
Arrival
  • 1948
Residence
  • Victoria
Training
  • T.S.T.C (Art and Crafts),, Monash and Melbourne Universities, Melbourne, Vic.
Cultural Heritage
  • Cypriot
Languages
  • English
Initial Record Data Source
  • Twenty: Sherman Galleries 1986 - 2006

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Related events
  • Ars Electronica (exhibited at)
  • Transfigure: Perception, Body, Space and Landscape (exhibited at)
  • Clemenger Contemporary Art Award (exhibited at)
  • 2nd Biennale of Contemporary Art in Goteborg (exhibited at)
  • Tissue Culture & Art Project (exhibited at)
  • Interaccess (exhibited at)
  • New Territories (exhibited at)
  • Alternate Interfaces (exhibited at)
  • Temporal Being: Microwave Media Arts Festival (exhibited at)
  • Biennale of Electronic Arts in Perth (exhibited at)
  • Yokohama Triennale (exhibited at)
  • International Sculpture Festival (exhibited at)
  • Cybercultures (exhibited at)
  • Body Language - Olympic Arts Festival (exhibited at)
  • Art is Ego: Das Labyrinth (exhibited at)
  • Soft Machine - Design in the Cyborg Age (exhibited at)
  • Out of Actions 1949 - 1979 (exhibited at)
  • Fukui Biennale - Media and the Human Body (exhibited at)
  • ICC Biennale '97 - Communication / Discommunication (exhibited at)
  • Relay (exhibited at)
  • DEAF '96 - Digital Territories (exhibited at)
  • Totally Wired (exhibited at)
  • Digital Aesthetics (exhibited at)
  • NIPAF '96 - Third Nippon Performance Art Festival (exhibited at)
  • Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon (exhibited at)
  • Padua Biennale (Oltra La Scultura) (exhibited at)
  • Past Its Shelf Life (exhibited at)
  • Hi-Tech Umeni (exhibited at)
  • Generated Realities II - The Body and Computer (exhibited at)
  • International Symposium on Electronic Arts (exhibited at)
  • 25 Years of Performance Art (exhibited at)
  • 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)
  • Ars Electronica (exhibited at)
  • The Edge Biennale (exhibited at)
  • Fuel (exhibited at)
  • Cyber-Music Concert (exhibited at)
  • Animated Imagination (exhibited at)
  • Melbourne International Festival (exhibited at)
  • Adelaide Fringe Festival (exhibited at)
  • Transfigure: Perception, Body, Space and Landscape (exhibited at)
  • Clemenger Contemporary Art Award (exhibited at)
  • 2nd Biennale of Contemporary Art in Goteborg (exhibited at)
  • Tissue Culture & Art Project (exhibited at)
  • Interaccess (exhibited at)
  • New Territories (exhibited at)
  • Alternate Interfaces (exhibited at)
  • Temporal Being: Microwave Media Arts Festival (exhibited at)
  • Biennale of Electronic Arts in Perth (exhibited at)
  • Yokohama Triennale (exhibited at)
  • International Sculpture Festival (exhibited at)
  • Cybercultures (exhibited at)
  • Body Language - Olympic Arts Festival (exhibited at)
  • Art is Ego: Das Labyrinth (exhibited at)
  • Soft Machine - Design in the Cyborg Age (exhibited at)
  • Out of Actions 1949 - 1979 (exhibited at)
  • Ars Electronica (exhibited at)
  • Fukui Biennale - Media and the Human Body (exhibited at)
  • ICC Biennale '97 - Communication / Discommunication (exhibited at)
  • DEAF '96 - Digital Territories (exhibited at)
  • Totally Wired (exhibited at)
  • Digital Aesthetics (exhibited at)
  • NIPAF '96 - Third Nippon Performance Art Festival (exhibited at)
  • Relay (exhibited at)
  • Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon (exhibited at)
  • Padua Biennale (Oltra La Scultura) (exhibited at)
  • Past Its Shelf Life (exhibited at)
  • Generated Realities II - The Body and Computer (exhibited at)
  • Hi-Tech Umeni (exhibited at)
  • International Symposium on Electronic Arts (exhibited at)
  • 25 Years of Performance Art (exhibited at)
  • 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)
  • Ars Electronica (exhibited at)
  • The Edge Biennale (exhibited at)
  • Fuel (exhibited at)
  • Animated Imagination (exhibited at)
  • Cyber-Music Concert (exhibited at)
  • Melbourne International Festival (exhibited at)
  • Adelaide Fringe Festival (exhibited at)