For Extreme Artist Stelarc, Body Mods Hint at Humans’ Possible Future

Legendary Australian performance artist Stelarc is known for going to extremes, from aggressive voluntary surgeries and robotic third arms to flesh-hook suspensions and prosthetics. For more than four decades, he's used his body as a canvas for art on the very edge of human experience. He talks with Wired about artists as early warning systems, growing a second skin and the future of his "Ear on Arm" project, in which a partly surgically constructed, partly cell-grown third ear has taken root on his forearm.

Source: http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/05/stelarc-performance-art/

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