Friday, June 15, 2007

Stelarc

The form of whatever species we evolve into after we humans cease to exist is something that's been floating around for the 3rd part of the trilogy. Stelarc thinks we are already there:
Bodies are both Zombies and Cyborgs. We have never had a mind of our own and we often perform involuntarily—conditioned and externally prompted. Ever since we evolved as hominids and developed bipedal locomotion, two limbs became manipulators and we constructed artifacts, instruments and machines. In other words, we have always been coupled with technology. We have always been prosthetic bodies. We fear the involuntary and we are becoming increasingly automated and extended. But we fear what we have always been and what we have already become—Zombies and Cyborgs.
Here is his latest self-mod:

He's Australian which begs the question: what is with Australia and end of the human species themes -- Nevil Shute's novel (and a Gregory Peck movie), On the Beach; Herzog's film, Where the Green Ants Dream; Wender's mixed Until the End of the World (with the plane scene lifted straight from Herzog in an insane act of creative jealousy or kind of lame homage) and of course the movie that's been remade and ripped off 100s of times, Mad Max.

Road Trip?

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