He has exhibited technology based artwork internationally including exhibitions at New Langton Arts '97, Ars Electronica '96, Dutch Electronic Art Festival '96, and LAX '92. He was named an NSF Presidential Faculty Fellow in 1995. Since its inception, SRL has operated as an organization of creative technicians dedicated to re-directing the techniques, tools, and tenets of industry, science, and the military away from their typical manifestations in practicality, product or warfare. Since 1979, SRL has staged over 50 mechanized presentations in the United States and Europe. Each performance consists of a unique set of ritualized interactions between machines, robots, and special effects devices, employed in developing themes of socio-political satire.
Humans are present only as audience or operators.
Eric Paulos Eric Paulos is a Graduate Student in the Computer Science Department at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests revolve around robotics and WWW based telepresence, particually human centered robotics. Stelarc Stelarc is a performance artist who is interested in alternate aesthetic strategies. He has used medical, robot and virtual reality systems to explore, extend and enhance the body's performance parameters. In the past he has acoustically and visually probed the body - amplifying his brainwaves, heartbeat, bloodflow and muscle signals and filming the inside of his lungs, stomach and colon.