“Stimbod” by Stelarc

Title:

Stimbod

Artist(s) and People Involved:

Exhibiting Artist(s):



• Stelarc

Symposium:

• ISEA95: Sixth International Symposium on Electronic Art

Medium:

Interactive

Artist Statement:

A touch-screen interface has been developed for the multiple muscle stimulator. This allows the body’s movements to be programmed by touching the muscle sites on the computer model. Although we already have remote-control robots, it might be advantageous in certain situations (in non-hazardous locations) to complete a remote task by borrowing the arm of another person’s body – especially since that remote stimulated arm is connected to an intelligent, mobile body. As well as completing a task, it would also be possible to condition a skill by sequential stimulation. And instead of seeing this as remote control, it is better conceptualized as the displacement of motion from one body to another body – in another place.

Category:

• Art Exhibition
• Interactive Monitor-Based