Stelarc biography books

The line that separates us from the machines we create has become blurred.

Our self-proclaiming notions of intelligence, awareness, identity, agency, and embodiment are no longer attributed solely to the human body. And instead of identity, we possess characteristics of connectivity that are most notably manifested through Embodied Conversational Agents.

Stelarc’s most recent project, Prosthetic Head, is a computer-generated head that has real-time lip-synching, speech synthesis and facial expressions.

Stelarc is the most celebrated artist in the world working within technology and the visual arts.

In book on Robots and Art Stelarc reflected on his own work in a chapter titled "Encounters, Anecdotes and Insights—Prosthetics, Robotics and Art".

A user's guide to Stelarc, the international performance artist whose extreme performances explore the borderland between bodies and machines.

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Stelarc is a Cyprus-born Australian performance artist raised in the Melbourne suburb of Sunshine, whose works focus heavily on extending the capabilities of the human body.

Through a vision or sensor system, the Prosthetic Head can acknowledge the presence and position of any physical body that approaches it and speak to the person who interrogates it.

If thinking is about effective processing and appropriate verbal and behavioural response, then the Prosthetic Head can be said to think.

By expanding its database through its conversations, the Prosthetic Head becomes more informed and gains autonomy. By separating himself from hi