CCBT aspires to connect people with the city, build international networks, and create a hub for digital creativity. As part of these endeavors, it works with like-minded partners in Japan and around the world. CCBT is collaborating with KMD, Keio Media Design team, to hold a performance by Stelarc, one of Australia’s leading performance artists.
Stelarc, one of Australia’s leading performance artists, and the KMD, Keio Media Design team will present a performance event at CCBT- Civic Creative Base Tokyo.
In a career spanning over 50 years, Stelarc has been interrogating alternative anatomical architectures, augmenting the body with a Third Hand, an Extended Arm and 6-legged walking robots. He has an Extra Ear, surgically constructed on his arm.
In this performance he will be incorporating a 3D printed headset and custom engineered electronics to acoustically amplify breath, muscle and heartbeat signals and also allow his body to become the video switcher and mixer live during the performance. These sensor systems have been developed by engineers and researchers at KMD lab since the Spring of 2023. Sensor Bracelets developed at JOLT Arts in Melbourne, will augment the bio-data sounds.
The live, interactive performance generates a synchronicity of sound, image and movement, the body becoming an extended operational system, reimagining and reconfiguring what a body is, how a body performs and probing what it now means to be human.
■Outline
Civic Creative Base Tokyo [CCBT] Partners Program
“Sonic Resonance: Event for Heart, Muscles and Breath”
Date&Time: February 18 (sunday) , 2024 5:00pm (open 4:30pm)
Performer: Stelarc (Performance Artist)
Capacity 50 (First-come, first-served basis)
＊Entrance Free
Please register via the Registration Form (Peatix).
Organizer: Keio University Graduate School of Media Design(KMD)
Co-organizer: Project Cybernetic being
ムーンショット型研究開発事業・目標1「身体的共創を生み出すサイバネティック・アバター技術と社会基盤の開発」
Technical Cooperator: KMD Geist, KMD Embodied Media
