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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  • Twenty: Sherman Galleries 1986 - 2006

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Related works
  • Fractal Flesh, Ping Body and Parasite internet performances (creator of)
  • Muscle Stimulator System (creator of)
  • Stomach Sculpture (creator of)
  • Virtual Arm Project (creator of)
  • Suspensions (creator of)
  • Third Hand Project (creator of)
  • (Sensory deprivation events and body suspensions with harness) (creator of)
  • Amplified body (creator of)
Related recognitions
  • two-year New Media Arts Fellowship, Australia Council for the Arts (received)
  • Artist-in-residence - Art & Technology, Ohio State University (received)
  • Grant - The Arts and Humanities Research Board, UK (received)
  • Honorary Degree - Doctor of Laws, Monash University (received)
  • Artist-in-residence - Art & Technology, Ohio State University (received)
  • 2001 : Grant - The Wellcome Trust, UK (received)
  • Artist-in-residence (received)
  • 1997 : Artist-in-residence - School of Art, Curtin University, Perth, WA (received)
  • 1997 : Artist-in-residence - Studio for Creative Enquiry, CMU, Pittsburgh, USA (received)
  • 1997 : Honorary Position - Professor of Art and Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA (received)
  • Grant - Visual Arts & Craft Board, Australia Council for the Arts (received)
  • Grant - Visual Arts & Craft Board, Australia Council for the Arts (received)
  • Artist-in-residence - Kansas City Art Institute (received)
  • 1991/1992 : Artist-in-residence - RMIT Advanced Computer Graphics Centre, Melbourne, Vic. (received)
  • Artist-in-residence - Ballarat University College, Ballarat, Vic. (received)
  • Grant - Visual Arts & Craft Board, Australia Council for the Arts (received)
  • Grant - Visual Arts & Craft Board, Australia Council for the Arts (received)
  • The Myer Foundation Grant, Australia (received)
  • Grant - Visual Arts & Craft Board, Australia Council for the Arts (received)
  • Grant - Visual Arts & Craft Board, Australia Council for the Arts (received)
  • The Myer Foundation Grant, Australia (received)
Related events
  • 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)