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Foreword by William Gibson. Texts by Julie Clarke, Timothy Druckrey, Jane Goodall, Amelia Jones, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, Brian Massumi, Marquard Smith, Stelarc. Fine and bright pictorial stiff wraps with excellent square spine and crisp bright text throughout. Profusely illustrated with close detail stills and larger portraits of this performance artist.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Softcover. 134pp. Illustrated. Contributors include Lisa Cartwright, Mieke Bal, Alphonso Lingis and Annie Marsh. V.g.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. illustrated edition. 312 pages. 8.50x7.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 239 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

orig.boards Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG, dustwrapper. 28x20cm, xiii,256 pp., Small tear to dustwrapper. Binding corners rubbed. "This is a user's guide to Stelarc, the international performance artist whose extreme performances explore the borderland between bodies and machines.Stelarc is the most celebrated artist in the world working within technology and the visual arts. He is both an artist and a phenomenon, using his body as medium and exhibition space. Working in the interface between the body and the machine, he employs virtual reality, robotics, medical instruments, prosthetics, the Internet, and biotechnology. Stelarc's art includes physical acts that don't always look survivable - or, as science fiction novelist William Gibson puts it in his foreword, " sometimes seem to include the possibility of terminality."Stelarc's projects include Third Hand, a grasping and wrist-rotating mechanism with a rudimentary sense of touch that is attached to the artist and activated by EMG from other body areas; Amplified Body, in which the artist performs acoustically with his brainwaves, muscles, pulse, and blood flow signals; and the Stomach Sculpture, a device - or "aesthetic adornment" - inserted into the artist's stomach and presented through video" - Publisher's description. Minor rubbing. An ink mark to bottom page-edge. VG, dustwrapper.…