O robô andante Sterlac tem uma cabeça e é capaz de se movimentar autonomamente a partir de uma biblioteca de movimentos pré-definidos. A ação do movimento é disparada baseada em nas circunstâncias enfrentadas, tais como a posição atual e os obstáculos fixos e móveis. Além de apresentar capacidade de “aprendizagem”, o robô traz uma função inquietante: ele exibe uma cabeça renderizada através de computação gráfica, num monitor de LCD montado na parte superior, que reage através de expressões no ro

Becoming Dragon, a mixed reality, durational performance by Micha Cárdenas in Second Life and at Calit2 :: Beginning December 1, 2008; 7:00 pm; runs for 365 hours :: The Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA), Atkinson Hall, Visiting Artist Lab #1613, University of California San Diego. Becoming Dragon questions the one year requirement of Real Life Experience that transgender people must fulfill in order to receive Gender Confirmation Surgery (Sexual Reassignment Surgery), and a

Re:live - Third International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology :: November 26-29, 2009 :: Melbourne, Australia :: Call For Papers – Deadline: December 19, 2008. UPDATE: Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Stelarc and Zhang Ga. There are a number of events happening prior to the commencement of the Re:live conference which will make Melbourne the place to be in November 09: LEF@Re:Live (Leonardo Education Forum) - November 25; SymbioticA Workshop: November 16 - 20; Austr

Kinetica Museum at Bishopsgate Institute: A Cultural Institute for London presents Man & Machine: The Convergence :: November 11, 2008; 7:30 pm :: Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate, London. This visionary panel will discuss the advancing potential of the human body and explore how science fiction has lead the way forward in creating today’s robotic and technologically integrated society. Ghislaine Boddington (Director, Body>Data>Space); Rich Walker (Director, Shadow Robot Compa

Desde Enero de 1990, ArtFutura, el festival de Cultura y Creatividad Digital de referencia en España, explora los proyectos y las ideas más importantes surgidas en el panorama internacional del new media, el diseño de interacción, los videojuegos y la animación digital. Sus actividades incluyen conferencias, talleres, instalaciones interactivas, exposiciones y actuaciones en directo. Entre sus participantes de ediciones pasadas cabe destacar a  William Gibson, Theo Jansen, Toshio Iwai, Lauri

Escultor genético: Stelarc deja atrás los materiales más postmodernos para usar el propio cuerpo humano. El cuerpo del siglo XXI, modificado, tratado, intervenido, tecnificado. Su obra más conocida: una oreja sintética fabricada a partir de material orgánico, implantada en su antebrazo junto a una una estructura de biopolímero que permite el crecimiento del apéndice. El próximo paso: añadirle un micrófono para conectarse a un transmisor Bluetooth con el que la oreja biónica podría conectarse

Trajectories of the Catastrophic, a symposium exploring the ideas and arguments put forth in the theoretical works of Paul Virilio, will take place this weekend in San Francisco. Participants include performance artist Stelarc (known, among other things, for implanting an ear onto his arm), DJ Spooky, and a host of other artists, scholars, filmmakers and theorists. There will also be a (taped) presentation from Semiotext(e) founder Sylvère Lotringer and a field trip to the Military Bunkers of

Paul Virilio Symposium October 24 & 25 in San Francisco: The Trajectories of the Carastrophic. Completely free. Oh, I so wish I could go to this! Stelarc, DJ Spooky, Sylvère Lotringer, Jordan Crandall, and others will be speaking. But Bostonians can catch DJ Spooky at MIT Bartos Theater Friday night.

Check out SFAI & City Lights’ symposium on the work of Paul Virilio next weekend. Stelarc, DJ Spooky, Sylvère Lotringer, Jordan Crandall & many more are speaking and there is a tour of bunkers at the Marin Headlands. Trajectories of the Catastrophic: A Critical Appraisal of the Work of Paul Virilio A symposium exploring the ideas and arguments featured in the works of Paul Virilio. Internationally acclaimed artists and scholars will critically examine the thinking of one of the f

“Stelarc Ken” by Zoe Khamsin.Now children can play with cyborg toys!Stelarc is a poet and scientist of contemporary times and his body, that he himself defined as 'obsolete', and others has defined as 'posthuman', is the end of the religious principle of body's inviolability. Moreover he made a mutual correspondence between his body and his art, and this led to his iconic definition. The artist creation - 'Stelarc Ken' - builds upon the idea of iconic individuals being replicated in toy form. P

“Stelarc Ken” by Zoe Khamsin. Now children can play with cyborg toys! Stelarc is a poet and scientist of contemporary times and his body, that he himself defined as ‘obsolete’, and others has defined as ‘posthuman’, is the end of the religious principle of body’s inviolability. Moreover he made a mutual correspondence between his body and his art, and this led to his iconic definition. The artist creation - ‘Stelarc Ken’ - builds upon the idea of iconic individuals being replicated in toy

Oto es un personaje único. Produce y diseña sus trabajos que han sido editados en diferentes netlabels italianos, configurando con el tiempo un estilo desenfadado que se nutre principalmente del sonido añejo, generado por ordenadores y videojuegos con procesadores de 8 bits. Sobre este lienzo, Oto es capaz de dar diferentes colores a su música. En [Miga29] “Tina Pica” se acerca al electro e IDM con sutileza y buen gusto para dejarnos ver que aún pudiendo parecer infantil, la musica de Oto es p

Oto es un personaje único. Produce y diseña sus trabajos que han sido editados en diferentes netlabels italianos, configurando con el tiempo un estilo desenfadado que se nutre principalmente del sonido añejo, generado por ordenadores y videojuegos con procesadores de 8 bits. Sobre este lienzo, Oto es capaz de dar diferentes colores a su música. En [Miga29] "Tina Pica" se acerca al electro e IDM con sutileza y buen gusto para dejarnos ver que aún pudiendo parecer infantil, la musica de Oto es

[Miga29] Oto - Tina Pica 07-Oct-08 Oto es un personaje único. Produce y diseña sus trabajos que han sido editados en diferentes netlabels italianos, configurando con el tiempo un estilo desenfadado que se nutre principalmente del sonido añejo, generado por ordenadores y videojuegos con procesadores de 8 bits. Sobre este lienzo, Oto es capaz de dar diferentes colores a su música. En [Miga29] “Tina Pica” se acerca al electro e IDM con sutileza y buen gusto para dejarnos ver que aún pudiendo pa

An Australian performer who has had an ear grafted onto his forearm in the name of art has sparked controversy. Cyprus-born Stelios Arcadiou, known as Stelarc, says his extra ear, made of human cartilage, is an augmentation of the body’s form. But surgeons questioned whether such an operation should have been carried out, given the absence of clinical need. A patient who had similar surgery to correct a birth defect said she found the artist’s work offensive. Stelarc, aged 61, said it h

…”Marco Puccini (Oto) starts to approach music langauges after his long collaboration with the Theatre Company Krypton (one of the most vanguard and popular theatre company in Italy in the ‘80s) for which he realized sounds tracks of the shows (”Iconoclast” in collaboration with Marco Messina from 99 Posse and “B” written by Giampaolo Spinato). He collaborates with some of the most important performers of the internation scene like FrankoB e Stelarc.”… 01. Pavane Rmx 02. C64 03. Zig Zag

via Turbulence.org's Networked_Performance: Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty [...] This innovative book (edited by Andy Miah), stimulated by material from FACT's Human Futures programme and informed by inquiries into the future of humanity, combines scholarly essays, images from leading artists and designers, interviews, design products, artistic artefacts, and creative writing. Together, these works present contributions from key thinkers, authors and artists, whose work acti

Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty (edited by Andy Miah): In recent years, the long-term future of humanity has become of particular concern to various governance bodies and scholarly institutions. This is due to the many biological transgressions that have begun to occur through emerging technologies, such as genetic modification, cloning, stem cell research and much more. These transgressions call into question the foundations of social order, thus creating a complex, multifaceted im

            Australian artist Stelarc (born Stelios Arcadiou) is currently serving as Chair in Performance Art, School of Arts, Brunel University West London and as the Senior Research Fellow and Visiting Artist in the MARCS Labs at the University of Western Sydney, Australia after sustaining a career as an internationally respected artist since the late 1960’s. His creations and performance art have changed over the years, yet have retained repeated themes on embodiment, incarnationalism, ide

Cybernetic Art: These key artists have focused their works on the close interface between the organic and robotic, as a means for commenting on transhumanism, the relationship between man and machine in the current digital age, and philosophical questions of what differentiates the organic mind from the robotic. STELARC ("http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/arcx.html") STELARC has done multiple performance art pieces in which he directly interfaces his own nervous system with robotics to allow him to