Stelarc.

Stelarc is an Australian performance Artist who examines the boundaries of art, technology and the body experimenting with the boundaries of his own skin and the local space that it occupies. He also investigates the experience of the remote body.

'what is being generated and experienced is not the biological other but an excessive technological other, a third other. A remote and phantom presence manifested by a logically situated body' (Stelarc)

I like that his own body is wired into the net, in the left ear on the left arm he has constructed an ear from his own living cells replicating his own ear which from surgical construction it will be placed on his forearm that transmits sounds it hears. I like this idea that we can hear whatever he is listening to all over the world. The re-implantation of a mini microphone enables wireless connection to the Internet making the ear a remote listening device for people in other places. Therefore in this piece Stelarc audience is literally anyone that has the Internet and logs onto his site. I have been reading a 'Cyborg Manifesto' by Donna Haraway a science professor who suggested in the future our bodies would no longer be human with emotion but instead in one way or another we would all have technological enhancements and apotheosis i am examining this in the core practice and materiality brief. The idea that in the future humans will be genetically engineered in labs being made and fertilized through cells and grown in chrysalis type buds.