[sudoroom] Fwd: atc @ uc berkeley: stelarc, mon april 2, 7:30pm

[Matthew Senate]

Cool event Sudoers may want to check out (and it's free!)

Hope to see you there...

// Matt

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From: ken goldberg <goldberg at berkeley.edu>
Date: Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:24 AM
Subject: atc @ uc berkeley: stelarc, mon april 2, 7:30pm
To: mattsenate at berkeley.edu




UC's Berkeley Center for New Media, the Art, Technology, and Culture
Colloquium Present:

The Comatose, the Cadaver, and the Chimera: Alternate Anatomical
Architectures

Stelarc, Performance Artist, Melbourne

Monday, April 2, 7:30-9 pm

Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley

Free and open to the public
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Caption: "Third Ear", Stelarc, 2007. (Photo courtesy of Stelarc.)

Flesh is circulating. Organs are extracted and exchanged. Limbs
detached from a dead body can be reanimated on a living body. Ova are
fertilized by sperm that was once frozen. The skin cells from an
impotent male can now become sperm cells. And more interestingly the
skin cells from female bodies can be re-engineered into sperm cells.
The face of a donor body becomes a third face on the recipient.
Cadavers can be preserved forever with plastination whilst comatose
bodies can be sustained indefinitely on life-support systems.
Cryogenically suspended bodies await reanimation at some imagined
future. The dead, the near-dead, and the yet to be born now exist
simultaneously. And if body parts can be stem-cell grown or Organ
Printed, then organs will be in abundence. Organs will be in excess.
There will be organs awaiting bodies. Organs Without Bodies. This is
the age of the Cadaver, the Comatose and the Chimera. The Chimera is
the body that performs with mixed realities. Liminal spaces
proliferate, blurring what it means to be a body and whether it is any
longer meaningful to remain human. Perhaps what it means to be human
is not to remain human at all.

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Stelarc is an Australian artist who has performed extensively in
Japan, Europe and the USA, in a range of contexts including new music,
dance and media art festivals, and experimental theatre. He has used
medical instruments, prosthetics, robotics, virtual reality systems
and the internet to explore alternate, intimate and involuntary
interfaces with the body.

Recent publications include "Stelarc: The Monograph", Edited by
Marqand Smith, Forward by William Gibson (MIT Press 2005). He was a
Senior Research Fellow at MARCS Auditory Labs from 2006-2011 with the
THINKING HEAD project. He is Chair in Performance Art, Brunel
University London. In 2010 he was awarded the Ars Electronica Hybrid
Arts Prize. Stelarc's artwork is represented by SCOTT LIVESEY
GALLERIES, Melbourne.

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ATC Director: Ken Goldberg

BCNM Assoc. Director: Susan Miller

ATC Assoc. Director: Greg Niemeyer

Curated with ATC Advisory Board

Sponsors:

* Berkeley Center for New Media (BCNM)

* Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost

* Center for Information Technology in the Interest of Society
(CITRIS)

* Meyer Sound
* Tom Delay
* Theo Armour

Selected events co-presented with:

* David Brower Center

* Arts Research Center

* ATC @ UCSC

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