ART TOPOS has compiled a list of annotated pointers to web pages about Stelarc and his work.
Please feel free to drop us an E-mail if you have any suggestion for additions to this list.
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Stelarc's official site, maintained by the artist himself. A great source of information for understanding Stelarc's art. It includes original texts, video and sound clips, VRML models and many other features. |
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A web site presenting an abstract of METABODY CD, featuring a series of important critical texts about Stelarc's work. |
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An article of I-D Magazine published in 1992 with the advent of a Stelarc's presentation in the UK within the frame of EDGE'92 Festival. |
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An introductory article by Mark J. Jones published in Cyberstage in its Spring 1995 issue. |
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An interview with Stelarc by Paolo Atzori and Kirk Woolford of the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany, published in CTHEORY , an international journal of theory, technology and culture, edited by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker. |
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Edward Scheer, lecturer in performance studies at UNSW in the School of Theatre, Film and Dance, elaborates on the Stelarc phenomenon. Published in RealTime Australian cultural magazine. |
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A short but informative essay by Eric Paulos , elaborating on Stelarc's performances from the point of view of interactive multimedia. |
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Gina Fenton , who has worked for the creation of MetaBody CD , has collected a set of myths about automata in antiquity. |
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A critical text by cultural critic Mark Dery about Stelarc's performance for Telepolis in November 1995, examining some aspects of Stelarc's work with respect to art-historical and symbolic terms. |
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A long paper by Ravi Rajakumar (thesis for Rutgers University) analyzing some of the processes by which the boundaries between technology and biology are beginning to erode and some attendant possibilities for reinvention of the functional roles of extant anatomical/machinic components through artistic practice. |
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A text by McKenzie Wark, lecturer in communications at Macquarie University and columnist for The Australian, elaborating on Stelarc's and Orlan's work from the post-human perspective as expressed by Jeffrey Deitch. |
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Thoughts on Science, Technology and Art - Stelarc, Harley, Cullen and Kum |
Caleb Stuart of the Department of Art History in Auckland University expresses some thoughts about art and technology. A short but important text. |
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An interview with Stelarc by Oron Catts, within the frame of Tissue Culture and Arts project , dealing with the use of tissue culture and tissue engineering as a medium for artistic expression. |
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A paper by Peter Lunenfeld about Negroponte's famous aphorism, using, among others, the paradigm of Stelarc's performances. |
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An interview with Stelarc by Jannis Androutsopoulos published in issue 14 of Oxy Magazine . Available only in Greek. |
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