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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 17h

Ummm ok. I will read this with interest

R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 21h

== THE LANGUAGE OF GESTURE RECOGNITION ==

STELARC's Virtual Arm project, completed in 1992 at the RMIT Advanced Computer Graphics Centre

Image: Stelarc Collection (HAHA (Hypertrophic Ambidextrous Hand/Arm). ISIR, Sorbonne University 2025

R.U. talks w/ STELARC: magazine.mindplex.ai/post/experim...

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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 22h

decent article but wrong headline

He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US

Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.

www.wired.com

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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 22h

he's distant

R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 22h

Josh is funny and smart if you're near Berkeley

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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 22h

Wild Thing?

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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 1d

We thank George Soros for organizing 17 golf courses for Trump International in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Berkeley and Chicago. Hassan i Sirius is now traveling to Bunfuck, Kansas to sign the peace treaty. War torn Portland will soon be a land of peace, plenty and golf.

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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 1d

= EMBODIED, FROM WIRED TO WIRELESS =

"I began performing in the very early 70s. And since then I have endoscopically filmed 3m of internal body space, did 28 body suspensions, and augmented/ performed with prosthetics and robotics."

RU talks w/ STELARC:
magazine.mindplex.ai/post/experim...

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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 1d

Propel: Body on Robot Arm
DeMonstrable- Autronics, Lawrence Wilson Gallery, Perth 2015
Photographer- Steven Aaron Hughes
Stelarc

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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 1d

You seem to delight in allowing a crowd 2 occupy part of your body

STELARC: It's not so much about being occupied, rather the body becoming a host for remote others.. constructing extended & more interesting operational systems.This body w. other bodies remotely situated or w. machines elsewhere

Experimenting With Alternative Anatomical Architectures. An interview with STELARC

When art meets anatomy, STELARC turns the human body into a living laboratory — exploring flesh, machines, and the limits of being alive.

magazine.mindplex.ai

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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 2d

Credit: Courtesy of the Stelarc Collection (Photographer: Morten Schandorff. City Suspension Above the Royal Theatre. Copenhagen, 1985

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R.U. Sirius @rusirius.bsky.social · 2d

"I’m more concerned with what a body is and how a body performs with its attachments and machines. I’m more concerned with the performance structure and the interactive relationships between the body, the technology and the computational system."

Experimenting With Alternative Anatomical Architectures. An interview with STELARC

When art meets anatomy, STELARC turns the human body into a living laboratory — exploring flesh, machines, and the limits of being alive.

magazine.mindplex.ai