I found Stelarc's art project most interesting. He have done a lot of technologised changes to his body, such as putting a cell-cultivated ear on his left arm, making his arm into a robotic arm. What most interests me is the project he did in 1996, Ping Body. A remote audience could access, look at and actuate the body of Stelarc via a computer-based muscle-stimulation system (as shown in the second pictures). In Novermber 1995, Paris (the Pompidou Centre), Helsinki (The Media Lab) and Amsterdam (for the Doors of Perception Conference were connected electronically in the internet through this system.
"This stimulation was triggered by Internet traffic itself- the flow of data." ( quoted from Christiane Paul). This artist's body was stimulated by internet interaction and activity. It is entirely based on Interent. If no-one entered any information or order anything to the artist, this artwork cannot moved and presented to people. It shows the power of internet, which helped the creation and communication of people.
Further, The body is controlled by the computer but actually it is controlled by real people. In Today's society, the interfluve between technology and human are becoming blurred. We can see different avatars in the internet but we will never doubt whether they are created by a real people. Stelarc presented to us that Man can also be technologised and controlled by machine (which literally is the intention of real human beings). The internet is not only a collective network, but also a system and transmission tool to change the physical bodies.
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