Stelarc

Animating the inanimate. Electrification, as Stelarc points out, is the linking force between what is, and what can be. Electricity has many uses, but specifically communication, brings people, separated by oceans, together. With a simple code, (Morse Code), telegraphs could convey messages thousands of miles to create almost instant access to other parts of the world. The use of using electricity to send communication works on a much smaller scale. It is used to send messages from the brain to muscles to create motion. This idea is what fueled stories such as Frankenstein. When you think about it, it’s not very far fetched. This is a very real technology that is found in defibrillators.

There has been a great study in media about the variations of the human contact with electronics, computers and technology.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbvHtizL0x0&feature=related

http://archives.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/12/07/robot.man/

With the mixing of humans and technology, it has created the situation where the body, whether it is fingerprints, retinal scan or genetic code, is used as a source of identity. Simply having a picture of yourself can not guarantee proof of identity.

The point is raised that A.I. is limited to the parameters of game. It is easier for it to calculate moves on a chess board, where the rules are clearly defined and have to fit within a precise framework, than “require communication of freely movable bodies in an infinitely more complicated task.”

Eventually, humans will create technology that makes us obsolete.

Liquid Stelarc.

Sound Tattooing

Image Flesh

Is it a “sin” to replace the body with technology?

Does abandoning organs and the body for something else, cheat death, or is it the natural progression of human in order to survive?