Stelarc

Legendary performance artist / navigator of the undiscovered country of the human body Stelarc dropped by SL on Saturday.

He performed at the Virtual Stelarc Initiative at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT)

http://slurl.com/secondlife/RMIT%20Creative%20Media/45/37/31
http://v2.stelarc.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stelarc
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMIT_University
http://www.rmit.edu.au/

I was actually unaware of the Virtual Stelarc Initiative (probably too busy being pissed off at Linden Lab and missing the actual content! 😛

So it was a double treat to see the performance and the installation. Here’s a video from the Stelarc collection that’s a little bit like the performance from Saturday:

[YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiNp2Emtsvk]

I should say that I only saw half the performance! This was a mixed-reality piece for the Innovation Festival / Milano:

[YouTube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aAf385-dfo]

http://www.innovationfestival.eu/

I was unable to find a stream on Saturday, or still today, of what happened in FL/Milano, so I only experienced the SL half of this mixed-reality work.

To be honest, it probably wasn’t his finest work, still, it was spine-tingling to see the master in action.