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<div><font face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 16px;">It is my great pleasure to announce that the internationally acclaimed and pioneering experimental artist Stelarc will be giving a public lecture at Southern Cross University, Lismore Campus,
on Monday June 29. The lecture will be preceded by a masterclass intended for postgraduate students and ECRs working in the fields of performance and media arts, although it may also be of interest to those working on robotics or arts/science cross-over areas.</span></font></div>
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<p><strong>“ZOMBIES, CYBORGS & NANOBOTS:</strong> <strong>Embodiment, Identity and Agency”
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<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Public Lecture by Stelarc</strong></p>
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<p><strong style="font-size: 12pt;">Date</strong><span style="font-size: 12pt;">: Monday June 29</span></p>
<p><strong>Time</strong>: 4.00-5.30, with reception to follow</p>
<p><strong>Venue</strong>: Southern Cross University Lismore</p>
<p>D Block, room D129</p>
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<span style="font-size: 16px;">Please RSVP here: </span><span style="font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/zombies-cyborgs-nanobots-a-public-lecture-by-stelarc-tickets-17001277278">https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/zombies-cyborgs-nanobots-a-public-lecture-by-stelarc-tickets-17001277278</a></span></div>
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<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt;">We inhabit an age of circulating, fractal and phantom flesh where organs are exchanged, the body is prosthetically augmented, and we operate as avatars online. What a body is and how a body performs
becomes problematic. The body is a contemporary chimera of meat, metal and code performing remotely as an extended operational system. Still a biological body but now accelerated by its machines, enhanced by its instruments and increasingly informed by the
massive data streams generated in virtual systems. All technology in the future will be invisible because it is inside the body. Micro and nano machines will recolonize the human body, augmenting its bacterial populations and provide early alert warning systems
for internal pathological conditions. The artist will refer to his projects and recent research to provide an overview of body, machine and computer interface.</p>
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<strong>This public lecture will be preceded by a masterclass.</strong></p>
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<span style="text-align: center;">Places for this masterclass are strictly limited. To apply please email expressions of interest to </span><a href="mailto:elizabeth.stephens@scu.edu.au" style="text-align: center;">elizabeth.stephens@scu.edu.au</a><br>
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<strong style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;">Masterclass: "</strong><strong style="text-align: center;">AFFECT & THE BODY: </strong><strong style="text-align: center;">From Butoh to Performance Art</strong></p>
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<strong style="text-align: center;"></strong><span style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Date:
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<span style="text-align: center; font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Venue: </strong>SCU Lismore</span></p>
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<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt;">The body in performance will be considered in diverse approaches to this practice in contemporary art from Butoh dance to the somewhat extreme actions of Performance Art and the more recent machinimas
of Second Life avatar performances. This class will not only present specific performance examples but also will discuss the possibilities and problematics of presence and absence, embodiment, identity and agency as expressed in these performance practices.
Performance is seen as an art form that merges expression and experience and that is more about affect than information. <br>
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<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt;"><strong style="font-size: 12pt;">Biographical Note</strong><br>
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<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 12pt;">Stelarc explores Mixed and Augmented Realities. He has performed with a Third Hand, a Stomach Sculpture, Exoskeleton and a Prosthetic Head. He is surgically constructing and stem-cell growing
an ear on his arm that will be internet enabled. In 1996 he was made an Honorary Professor of Art and Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh and in 2002 was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by Monash University, Melbourne. In 2010 was awarded
the Ars Electronica Hybrid Arts Prize. In 2015 he received the Australia Council’s Emerging and Experimental Arts Award. Stelarc is currently a Distinguished Research Fellow and Director of the Alternate Anatomies Lab, School of Design and Art (SODA) at Curtin
University. His artwork is represented by the Scott Livesey Galleries, Melbourne.
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<p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px;">Elizabeth Stephens</span></p>
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<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri" style="font-size: 16px;">Southern Cross University</font></font></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px;">PO Box 157 Lismore NSW 2480</span></div>
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<a href="mailto:elizabeth.stephens@scu.edu.au">elizabeth.stephens@scu.edu.au</a></span></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 16px;">Phone: +61 2 6626 9331</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Academia page: </span><a href="https://scu-au.academia.edu/ElizabethStephens">https://scu.au.academia.edu/ElizabethStephens</a></span></div>
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