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SUMMARY:STELARC - MEAT\, METAL &amp\; CODE: THE CADAVER\, THE COMATOSE &am
 p\; THE CHIMERA - STELARC\, Performance Artist\, Chair In Performance Art\
 , School of Arts\, Brunel University\, London
DTSTART:20130219T170000Z
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CONTACT:Hannah Mowat
DESCRIPTION:The Cambridge Screen Media Group at CRASSH welcomes the perfor
 mance artist\, STELARC\, famous for exploring the capacities and limits of
  the human body through art. A unique opportunity to experience his work i
 n person!\n\nAll welcome\; followed by what promises to be a truly unique 
 Q&A.\n\nABSTRACT: We are increasingly expected to perform in Mixed and Aug
 mented Realities. We are no longer merely biological bodies but increasing
 ly accelerated by our machines and enhanced by our instruments. And we hav
 e to manage data in virtual systems. We have become extended operational s
 ystems\, performing beyond the boundaries of our skin and beyond the local
  space we inhabit. As well as Circulating Flesh it is now an age of Fracta
 l and Phantom Flesh.
LOCATION:CRASSH\, Alison Richard Building\, 7 West Road\, Cambridge\, CB3 
 9DP
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