Tilt-Shift photographs of Van Gogh’s paintings (via ladypatience)
Australian performance artist, Stelarc, had an artificial ear surgically implanted into his arm to bring attention to the ways in which technology is blurring what is morally acceptable in terms of life. Stelarc plans to install a microphone into the prosthetic ear, thereby allowing it to “hear.” Read the full article here
I think this kind of sensationalist art is pious and ill-informed. “Look, science can be perverted into things strange and unnatural,” it scrams seemingly resolutely yet without any real purpose or direction. Well no fucking shit. Everything that can be misused to serve an unsavory end, is eventually misused to serve an unsavory end by some profiteering bastard. Stelarc’s prosthetic art could be transplanted onto a burn victim who lost an ear. Get off your soapbox and do something useful.
