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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Courtesy of: Scanlines
creator of
Movatar
Medium
Installation
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3360
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=1388

Imagine an avatar that can perform in the 'real’ world by accessing a physical body …

 
creator of
Stelarc: Meat, Metal, Code
Date
Medium
Interview
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/6034
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prBMk72mwsg

Famed for pushing the boundaries of performance art and biotechnology, Stelarc previews startling new scientific developments set to transform our relationships to our bodies and our selves.
Presented by Institute of Art and Ideas in Britain.

 
creator of
The Body is Obsolete
Date
Medium
Video
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/1005
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKEfJRe4uys

Screener for Stelarc – The Body is Obsolete distributed online worldwide by Contemporary Arts Media:http://www.artfilms.com.au/Detail.aspx?ItemID=220Code: KD-Stel
DVD & CD-ROM ...

 
None
Courtesy of: Scanlines
creator of
Prosthetic Head
Date
Medium
Installation
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3396
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=1432

The Prosthetic Head is an embodied conversational agent (ECA) that speaks to the person who interrogates it …

 
creator of
Hexapod
Date

digital 3-D animation DVD. Produced in collaboration with in collaboration with the Performance Arts Digital Research Unit at the Nottingham Trent University and the Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems Group, School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences at the University of Sussex, funded by The Wellcome Trust and the AHRB, UK.

 
creator of
Motion Prosthesis
Date

pneumatic upper-body actuator

 
creator of
The Extended Arm
Date

pneumatic 11 degrees-of-freedom manipulator

 
creator of
Exosceleton
Date

performance video documentation

 
creator of
Extra Ear
Date
Medium
Installation
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3358
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=1386

Imagine an ear as an internet antenna …

 
creator of
Fractal Flesh, Ping Body and Parasite internet performances
Date
 
creator of
Muscle Stimulator System
Date
 
creator of
Stomach Sculpture
Date
URL
http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/stomach/stomach.html
 
creator of
Virtual Arm Project
Date
URL
http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/virtarm/virtarm.html
 
creator of
Event for Stretched Skin
Date
Medium
Single channel video work
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/856

Videotape of performance recorded in Tokyo, Japan, 1975 …

 
creator of
Suspensions
Date
URL
http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/suspens/suspens.html

With insertions into the skin

 
creator of
Third Hand Project
Date
URL
http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/third/third.html
 
creator of
(Sensory deprivation events and body suspensions with harness)
Date
 
creator of
Amplified body
Date
URL
http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/ampbod/ampbod.html

EEG, ECG, EMG, bloodflow, kinetic angle transducers, position sensors

 

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  • Transfigure: Perception, Body, Space and Landscape (exhibited at)
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  • 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)
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  • Yokohama Triennale (exhibited at)
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  • Cybercultures (exhibited at)
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  • ICC Biennale '97 - Communication / Discommunication (exhibited at)
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  • DEAF '96 - Digital Territories (exhibited at)
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  • 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)
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  • 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)
  • Stelarc: amplified body, laser eyes and third hand (exhibited at)
  • Stelarc: performance documentation (exhibited at)
  • Suspend/Extend event for stretched skin (exhibited at)
  • Event for laser eyes: automatic arm and third hand (exhibited at)
  • Structure substance Stelarc (exhibited at)
  • Towards a New Aesthetic (participated in)
  • Second International Symposium on Electronic Art (SISEA) (participated in)
  • The Performing Body (participated in)
  • Face to Face: Portraiture in the Digital Age (participated in)
  • Tell Me Tell Me: Australian and Korean Art 1976-2011 (participated in)
  • 1990 National Summer School (participated in)
  • Biennale of Sydney: Recent International Forms in Art (exhibited at)
  • Continuum '83 (exhibited at)
  • Herald outdoor art show 1968 (exhibited at)
  • 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)
  • Immersion, Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (BEAP) (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)
  • Stelarc: amplified body, laser eyes and third hand (exhibited at)
  • Stelarc: performance documentation (exhibited at)
  • Suspend/Extend event for stretched skin (exhibited at)
  • Event for laser eyes: automatic arm and third hand (exhibited at)
  • Structure substance Stelarc (exhibited at)
  • Towards a New Aesthetic (participated in)
  • Second International Symposium on Electronic Art (SISEA) (participated in)
  • The Performing Body (participated in)
  • Face to Face: Portraiture in the Digital Age (participated in)
  • Tell Me Tell Me: Australian and Korean Art 1976-2011 (participated in)
  • 1990 National Summer School (participated in)
  • Biennale of Sydney: Recent International Forms in Art (exhibited at)
  • Continuum '83 (exhibited at)