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Stelarc : Teri Hoskin : Gregory Ulmer : Geoff Ryman |
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Address by STELARCNOTIONS OF INCUBATION AND INNOVATION Listen to Opening Address Performance artist Stelarc is at the forefront of some of the most ground-breaking new media arts research. But where do his ideas come from and how does he generate and develop them? The process of evaluating and elaborating ideas is important. How can this be done in a meaningful manner? In this short opening talk he invites us to consider the incubation of his creative imaginings.... Stelarc is an Australian artist who has performed extensively in Japan, Europe and the USA -- including new music, dance 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. He has performed with a THIRD HAND, a VIRTUAL ARM, a VIRTUAL BODY, a STOMACH SCULPTURE and the 6-legged EXOSKELETON walking machine. In 1995 Stelarc received a three year Fellowship from The Visual Arts/ Craft Board, The Australia Council. In 1997 he was appointed Honorary Professor of Art and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. He was Artist-In-Residence for Hamburg City in 1998. In 1999 he was re-appointed as a Senior Research Scholar for the Faculty of Art and Design at the Nottingham Trent University. His art is represented by the Sherman Galleries in Sydney. http://www.stelarc.va.com.au
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 TERI
HOSKININCUBATION: LABORATORY OF THE PRESENT Read presentation|Listen to presentation A presentation of visual arts writing projects that merge on and offline
environments. These projects and practices are ongoing queries into what
constitutes 'writing' and 'research'.
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 GREGORY
ULMERTHE INVENTION OF ELECTRACY Listen to presentation The creation of literacy included not
just alphabetic technologies, but also the methods of logic and rhetoric.
Who will do for electracy what Aristotle did for literacy? gulmer@nwe.ufl.edu
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RYMAN THE
ALTRUISM OF FICTION; THE ALTRUISM OF THE NET The internet was
founded on a 'generous impulse' very similar to that identified by Sartre
as the driving force behind the creation of fiction. But how can we balance
generosity with the need to commercialise? What do we want the internet
*for*? Ryman follows the outline of Sartre's 1947 "What is Literature"
to ask: What is Writing? Why write (for the Internet), For whom does one
write? and Situation of the (Online) Writer in 2000.
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