Stelarc
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Stelarc is a Cyprus-born Australian performance artist raised in the Melbourne suburb of Sunshine, whose works focus heavily on extending the capabilities of the human body. As such, most of his piece
Stelarc showing his third ear at the Warwick University in 2011
Parasite: Event for Invaded and Involuntary Body, at the 1997 Ars Electronica Festival
Stelarc at the Concordia University, Canada, in 2010
Cell culture
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Cell culture or tissue culture is the process by which cells are grown under controlled conditions, generally outside of their natural environment. After cells of interest have been isolated from livi
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…tours of the exhibition. Stelarc performed with his sculpture in real time, as well as making the videorecording available. In 2007, Stelarc had a cell-cultivated ear surgically attached to his left arm. His longtime collaborator, fellow Australian artist Nina Sellars, photographed this body modification for her…
Cell culture in a small Petri dish
Cultured cells growing in growth medium
A bottle of DMEM cell culture medium
Cultured HeLa cells have been stained with Hoechst turning their nuclei blue, and are one of the earliest human cell lines descended from Henrietta Lacks, who died of cervical cancer from which these cells originated.