STELARC/ THE MONOGRAPH

Stelarc is the most celebrated artist in the world working within technology and the visual arts. He is both an artist and a phenome non, using his body as medium and exhibition space. Working in the interface between the body and the machine, employing virtual rea lity, robotics, medical instruments, prosthetics, and the Internet, Stelarc's art includes physical acts that don't always look surv ivable -- or, as science fiction novelist William Gibson puts it in his foreword, sometimes seem to include the possibility of termi nality.S...[Llegir més]