Stelarc Explores The Possibilities Of Augmented Reality

 Augmented Reality

Stelarc is one of the world's most celebrated artists working within technology and the visual arts. Working in the interface between the body and the machine, employing virtual reality, robotics, medical instruments, prosthetics, and the Internet, Stelarc's art includes physical devices and body modification. At the 2012 Australian Singularity Summit, the artist discussed his work.

T he performance artist Stelarc is famous for having surgically grafted an ear to his arm in 2007. His works focuses heavily on extending the capabilities of the human body. As such, most of his pieces are centered around his concept that the human body is obsolete.

Until 2007 he held the position of Principal Research Fellow in the Performance Arts Digital Research Unit at Nottingham Trent University in Nottingham, England. He is currently a visiting Professor in the School of Arts at Brunel University, West London.

At the Singularity Summit Australia 2012, Stelarc discussed his work, especially his augmented reality prosthesis and virtual reality applications.

According to Stelarc, the body now performs beyond the boundaries of its skin and beyond the local space that it occupies. It can project its physical presence elsewhere. So the notion of single agency is undermined, or at least made more problematic.

For Stelarc, the body becomes a nexus or a node of collaborating agents that are not simply separated or excluded because of the boundary of our skin, or of having to be in proximity. We can experience remote bodies, and we can have these remote bodies invading, inhabiting and emanating from the architecture of our bodies, expressed by the movements and sounds prompted by remote agents. What is being generated and experienced is not the biological other - but an excessive technological other — a third other.






SOURCE  Singularity Summit Australia

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