STELARC
'A real artist never sleeps in front of new technologies but deforms them and transforms them'
From the early images of involuntary body and dads tales of art school
there's been something in the conviction,
there's been something in the conviction,
the piercing focus,
that drives an admirable integrity in Stelarc's work.
His certainty is mesmerizing .
For Stelarc, the body has always been prosthetic- a site of radical experimentation that in his art has been objectified, penetrated, virtualized, roboticized, emptied out, alienated and suspended with such ferocity that the purely prosthetic quality of the body has been forced to surface.
Source: "We Are All Stelarcs Now" Stelarc: The Monograph Edited by Marquard Smith, MIT Press 2005.
