Stelarc

Stelarc is a performance artist. He was born on an Australlian island called Cyprus. Stelarc believes that the body is obsolete. It has no strategy or personality. It is only a sculpture to redesign. It is like architecture in a space. The body is not an object of desire but is to preserve, transfuse, sustain during comas, and do stem cell research on. He does not really act but he feels pain and demonstrates technology. In art school he realized that he was a terrible painter. Stelarc has put hooks in his flesh and suspended himself 25 times. He has suspended himself inside, outside, from trees, above streets and buildings. He has a third robotic arm which he performs with. It operates through body movement and a computer. He has a six legged walking machine that he rides on top of and works the controls. In 1993 he did a stomach sculpture by swallowing a camera and taking pictures. He has a third ear that is implanted and developing on his arm. He would like to implant a mic into it and attach a bluetooth that is transmitted to the internet to hear with his ear. His future plans are to create robots the size of specks that can be swallowed. these tiny robots will assist the body in fighting bacteria and disease and probably won't be felt by the body. Some of his designs are being used by NASA.