Stelarc – AUGMENTED, EXTRUDED AND AMPLIFIED BODIES: ALIVENESS, IDENTITY AND AGENCY

AGSE202 Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia

We inhabit an age of Circulating Flesh, Fractal Flesh and Phantom Flesh. Organs are extracted from one body and inserted into other bodies. Hands from a cadaver can be attached to the arms of an amputee and be reanimated. By Fractal Flesh is meant bodies, bits of bodies and brains spatially separated but electronically connected,

MINA, 14th edition of the Mobile Innovation Network and Association’s Smartphone Film Festival

ACMI Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia

In its 14th edition MINA, the Mobile Innovation Network and Association, will present a public screening of smartphone, mobile and pocket films at ACMI on the 24th October, at Fed Square 27th to 29th October and online via MINAVault. MINA is the longest-running film festival dedicated to celebrating mobile and smartphone film-making internationally. MINA creates