Virtual Futures Collective – Alternative Anatomies with Stelarc and Sellars at the V&A Museum

Virtual Futures Collective,  director Luke Robert Mason hosts #VFSalon – Alternative Anatomies with guest speakers Stelarc and Sellars at the V&A Museum.

Virtual Futures collective with Stelarc and Nina Sellars at the Victoria and Albert Museum Digital Design Weekend.

Stelarc and Nina Sellers

Stelarc and Nina Sellers

Yes that is an ear on his arm! That’s Stelarc.

Stelarc is a performance artist who has visually probed and acoustically amplified his body. He has made three films of the inside of his body. Between 1976-1988 he completed 26 body suspension performances with hooks into the skin. He has used medical instruments, prosthetics, robotics, Virtual Reality systems, the Internet and biotechnology to engineer intimate and involuntary interfaces with the body. He explores Alternate Anatomical Architectures with augmented and extended body constructs.

Virtual Futures

Director: Luke Robert Mason

Virtual Futures Collective

Virtual Futures Salons are a series of highly immersive event experiences that encourage and promote original thinking. They bring together artists, philosophers, cultural theorists, technologists and fiction writers to re-address the potential of looking at our future through a techno-philosophical lens. Virtual Futures Collective http://www.virtualfutures.co.uk/

From left to right: Eva Pascoe, Nina Sellars, Benjamin Greenaway, Stelarc, Luke Robert Mason, Graeme Gerard Halliday (Hallidonto), Jacqueline Hammond

As you can see I am very happy to have found my fellow cyborgs and collaborators again.

Virtual Futures Salon at the V&A museum ‘Alternative Anatomies’ with Stelarc and Nina Sellars on 24th September 2017

About artbyjaxx

Contemporary British artist, Jacqueline Hammond, is renowned for producing strong, punchy images that are rich in texture and colour. A prolific painter and multidisciplinary artist, she exhibits widely and is commissioned by individual clients, collectors and high profile brands. Jacqueline’s inspiration comes from direct observation: subject matter is plucked from the world encountered every day. Some ideas evolve, others are reactionary. Thought-provoking themes explore today’s society, the media and cultural theory. Whether inspired by the street or the sea, Jacqueline’s work has an edge: her paintings are consistently striking. Her natural disposition is to let the paint dictate the creative process, trusting the medium and her mind’s eye to translate the vision.
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