Biography Stelarc [AUS]
has used medical instruments, prosthetics, Virtual Reality systems and the Internet to explore, extend and enhance the body's operational parameters. He has interactively performed with a Third Hand, Robot Manipulaters, a Virtual Arm, a Virtual Body, and a Stomach Sculpture. He has recently developed a touch-screen interfaced Multiple Muscle Stimulation system, enabling remote access, actuation and choreography of the body. Performances such as Ping Body and Parasite probe notions of telematic scaling and the engineering of extended, external and virtual nervous systems for the body using the Internet.