Stelarc

Stelarc’s projects and performances explore alternative anatomical architectures. He has performed with a Third Hand, an Extended Arm and a 6-legged robot. He had an ear surgically constructed on his arm. He has exhibited and performed in Europe, the USA, South America, China, SE Asia and Australia. He has been awarded the Prix Ars Electronica Hybrid Arts Prize and has received the Australia Council’s Emerging and Experimental Arts Award. He was designated Honorary Professor of Art and Robotics, Carnegie University, Pittsburgh in 1997. And he has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by Monash University in 2002, Melbourne; the  Ionian  University, Corfu in 2017 and the Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow in 2023.