Stelarc is the most celebrated artist in the world working within technology and the visual arts. He is both an artist and a phenomenon, using his body as medium and exhibition space. 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 acts that don't always look survivable—or, as science fiction novelist William Gibson puts it in his foreword, "sometimes seem to include the possibility of terminality." Stelarc's projects include Third Hand, a grasping and wrist rotating mechanism with a rudimentary sense of touch that is attached to the artist and activated by EMG from other body areas; Amplified Body, in which the artist performs acoustically with his brainwaves, muscles, pulse, and blood flow signals; and the Stomach Sculpture, a device—or "aesthetic adornment"—placed in the artist's stomach and presented through video. Works in progress include the Extra Ear Project, a soft prosthesis of skin and cartilage to be constructed on the artist's arm. Stelarc's work both reflects and determines new directions in performance art and body art. Although there have been hundreds of articles written about Stelarc since he began performing in the late 1960s, Stelarc: The Monograph is the first comprehensive study of Stelarc's work practice in over thirty years. Gathering a range of writers who approach the work from a variety of perspectives, it includes William Gibson's account of his meetings with Stelarc, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker's emphatic "WE ARE ALL STELARCS NOW," and Stelarc himself in conversation with Marquard Smith. Taken together, these writers give us a multiplicity of ways to think about Stelarc.

Stelarc: The Monograph

Arts & Photography

Jones, Amelia

Kroker, Arthur

Massumi, Brian

Kroker, Marilouise

Druckrey, Timothy

Goodall,Jane

Stelarc

Individual Artists

Mit Pr

Body Invaders: Panic Sex in America (Culture Texts)

Body Invaders: Panic Sex in America (Culture Texts) [Mar 01, 1988] Kroker, Arthur and Kroker, Marilouise ...

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene (Culture Texts Series)

Cook,david

Panic Encyclopedia: The Definitive Guide to the Postmodern Scene

St Martins Pr

Hacking the Future tells the story of what happens when information technology escapes the high tech labs of Silicon Valley and invades the sites of everyday culture. It includes some of the survival tales of people who just want to feel again in a culture that is numbed and purified. A spoken word CD is included.

Hacking the Future: Stories for the Flesh-Eating 90s (CULTURETEXTS)

Sociology

Body Invaders: Sexuality and the Postmodern Condition (Culture Texts)

Critical Digital Studies: A Reader

From the spectacular emergence of new media innovations such as blogging, podcasting, flashmobs, mashups, and RSS feeds to video-sharing websites, like MySpace and YouTube, and online role-playing games, contemporary society, culture, and politics are being transformed continuously by new digital communication technology. In Critical Digital Studies, internationally renowned theorists Arthur and Marilouise Kroker lead the search for a new method of understanding digitally mediated culture.
Digital studies is a rapidly expanding field that encompasses the research interests of social scientists and humanities scholars, multimedia artists, and activists. With this ground-breaking reader, we are introduced to a new style of thought that has emerged directly from Internet culture itself. Critical Digital Studies is inspired by the same spirit that gave rise to the Open Architecture Movement, Shareware, Web 2.0 - a creative mashup, mixing the enduring human demand to understand the world around us with the new means of analysis, communication, and living that define the twenty-first century. Among the contributors are: Sara Diamond, Donna Haraway, N. Katherine Hayles, Lynn Hershmann, Lev Manovich, Charles Mudede, Stephen Pfohl, and Stelarc.
An indispensable resource for instructors and students in digital studies programs, Critical Digital Studies is a comprehensive, creative, and fascinating look at a digital culture that is struggling to be born, survive, and flourish.

University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division

From the spectacular emergence of new media innovations such as blogging, podcasting, flashmobs, mashups, and RSS feeds to video-sharing websites, like MySpace and YouTube, and online role-playing games, contemporary society, culture, and politics are being transformed continuously by new digital communication technology. In Critical Digital Studies, internationally renowned theorists Arthur and Marilouise Kroker lead the search for a new method of understanding digitally mediated culture.Digital studies is a rapidly expanding field that encompasses the research interests of social scientists and humanities scholars, multimedia artists, and activists. With this ground-breaking reader, we are introduced to a new style of thought that has emerged directly from Internet culture itself. Critical Digital Studies is inspired by the same spirit that gave rise to the Open Architecture Movement, Shareware, Web 2.0 - a creative mashup, mixing the enduring human demand to understand the world around us with the new means of analysis, communication, and living that define the twenty-first century. Among the contributors are: Sara Diamond, Donna Haraway, N. Katherine Hayles, Lynn Hershmann, Lev Manovich, Charles Mudede, Stephen Pfohl, and Stelarc.An indispensable resource for instructors and students in digital studies programs, Critical Digital Studies is a comprehensive, creative, and fascinating look at a digital culture that is struggling to be born, survive, and flourish.

Technologies of the New Real: Viral Contagion and Death of the Social (Digital Futures)

Review\n"For those of us trying to navigate the maelstrom of contemporary society – with all its uncertainties, multiplicities, and vortices accelerated in our time by a global pandemic, the rise of white nationalism, the death of truth, the climate crisis, and the imminent threat of economic collapse – comes this illuminating book that provides a critical perspective from which to understand the trajectories and inertias of our current virtual realities, the anxiety of survival-mode politics at the edge of the digital abyss, and the phantasmagoria of our rapidly unfolding technological future(s)." -- Jackson Leween, 2bears, Associate Professor of Art and Indigenous Creative and Cultural Practice and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts Research and Technology, University of Lethbridge\n"In this clear-eyed and beautifully written exploration of our digital age, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker analyze the impacts of the predatory digital machinations by economic and national hegemonic powers: constant tracking and surveillance reduce us to data or ashes; human emotion is synchronized, consciousness externalized, and culture virtualized. To call this book crucially important is an understatement." -- Deena Weinstein, Professor of Sociology, DePaul University\n"Technologies of the New Real offers brilliant analysis of the viral world of technology that we inhabit and that inhabits us, from the body invaded and designed, to robots and bots, to drones and surveillance creating the new real of the blended self. The theoretical insights, with such revealing examples of the technologies of the new real, are terrific." -- David Cook, Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto\nWith astonishing speed, we have been projected into a new reality where interactions with drones, robotic bodies, and high-level surveillance are increasingly mainstream. In this age of groundbreaking developments in robotic technologies, synthetic biology is merging with artificial intelligence, forming a newly blended reality of machines, bodies, and affect. 
Technologies of the New Real draws from critical intersections of technology and society – including drones, surveillance, DIY bodies, and innovations in robotic technology – to explore what these advances can tell us about our present reality, or what authors Arthur and Marilouise Kroker deem the "new real" of digital culture in the twenty-first century. 
Technologies of the New Real explores the many technologies of our present reality as they infiltrate the social, political, and economic static of our everyday lives, seemingly eroding traditionally conceived boundaries between humans and machines, and rendering fully ambivalent borders between the human mind and simulated data.

Science & Math

Technology

University of Toronto Press

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