Stelarc is going to stick an ear on his arm. In the process becoming a cross between Kevin Warwick and a transgenic mouse.
A few of his quotes mesh nicely with the way I’ve always seen technology as an extension of the body and the future blurring the line between technological devices and the body/mind. There’s also a degree of synchronicity with reading similar things in McLuhan.
I see the body as an evolutionary architecture for operation and awareness in the world. Alter the architecture and you adjust the body’s operation and awareness.
And on a seemingly related note a robot arm in Australia creates art from Rat brain neurons in Atlanta.
July 28th, 2003 at 1:57 pm
just like a tattoo, I bet it is going to look splendid when he is 70