In one PingBody event, Stelarc (located in Luxembourg) had his muscles stimulated by Web viewers in remote cities (Helsinki, Paris, and Amsterdam). In another PingBody event, he linked his body’s muscles directly to Net activity levels (with the length of time for a message to be sent to a location and return used as an indicator of the Internet’s traffic in particular locations).
Stelarc is a passionate spokesperson for a vision of humanity that reaches beyond the present limits of bodies. Defying categorization into either cyber optimism or cyber