PRIOR ART

1. Orlan

Orlan(1990),
First Surgery- http://www.orlan.net/

Video : http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi$misc?clips/OPERATIONR_002.mov

Access date : Nov. 25 2006

2. Stelarc

Extra Ear, 1999 http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/extra_ear/index.htm

Extra Ear 1/4 Scale, 2003 http://www.stelarc.va.com.au/quarterear/index.html

The Last Suspension, 1988 www.paris-art.com/image_detail-10134.html

Sitting/Swaying: Event for rock suspension, 1980 http://www.monash.edu.au/news/monashmemo/stories/20050803/print-version.html

Access date : Nov. 25 2006

3. Damien Hirst

a) Cut up cow

Mother and Child divided, 1993 http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/turnerprize/history/hirst.htm

b) any other of his works that ellict a visceral response

This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home, 1996 http://www.artchive.com/artchive/H/hirst.html

The pig (entitled This little piggy went to market, this little piggy stayed home): "The pig is sliced down the middle, displayed in two separate tanks. Driven on a plinth by motorised pulleys, this dumb animal constantly passes itself in the endless shuffle, a parody of the futile rat race of life."

Access date : Nov. 25 2006

4. Jana Sterbak

meat dress, 1987 http://www.snopes.com/politics/arts/meatdress.asp

Access date : Nov. 25 2006

5. Body Worlds

The Basketball Player (BODY WORLDS in Los Angeles, 2004/2005) http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/media/picture_database/preview.html?id=48

The Woman Bearing Life (BODY WORLDS in Oberhausen, Germany, 2000/2001) http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/media/picture_database/preview.html?id=50

The Basketball Player http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/media/picture_database/preview.html?id=59

The Kneeling Lady http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/media/picture_database/preview.html?id=64

The Chess Player http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/media/picture_database/preview.html?id=60

The Baseball Player http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/media/picture_database/preview.html?id=58

Blood Vessel Configuration of a Rabbit http://www.bodyworlds.com/en/media/picture_database/preview.html?id=10

Access date : Nov.25 06

6. Protrude and Flow by Sachiko Kodama and Minako Takeno

Protrude and Flow, 2001 http://www.kodama.hc.uec.ac.jp/project/protrude.html

Video : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAbycqD2UmQ

Access date : Nov.25 06

7. (Virtual?) Guillotine

(at SIGGRAPH 2001 I think)

8. Tissue Culture/symbiotica

Victimless Leather (TC&A : Tissue Culture &Art Project) http://www.tca.uwa.edu.au/vl/images.html

Extra Ear with Stelarc http://www.tca.uwa.edu.au/extra/images2_extra_ear.html

Pig wings http://www.tca.uwa.edu.au/pig/pig_main.html

Semi-living Worry Dolls, 2001 http://www.tca.uwa.edu.au/ars/main_frames.html

Accessed Nov. 26

9. Mona Hatoum

Corps Étranger-Foreign Body, 1994

http://www.iniva.org/archive/person/146

Video installation with cylindrical wooden structure, video projector, amplifier, four speakers 350 x 300 x 300 cm

Deep Throat, 1996 http://www.flickr.com/photos/homanasab/39212953/

A normal table has been set with a plate whose bottom is cut out to expose a video screen playing a medical video in which the miniature camera lens travels down an actual digestive system. Have a seat at the table and watch it.

Accessed Nov 27

10. Osmose

Osmose, Char Davis (1995)

http://www.immersence.com/ (Accessed Nov.25)

11. Margaret Dolinsky VR images

(2 of the most otherworldly,
     not the one that is about music)

12. Jill Scott

(any image or images about her skin/touch project)

13. Wim Delvoye_Cloaca

Cloaca(2003) by Wim Delvoye

Cloaca(2001) by Wim Delvoye

Cloaca(2000) by Wim Delvoye

http://www.cloaca.be/machines.htm (Accessed Nov.26)

the mechanic digestion machine

14. Francis Bacon

(triptych) or the most viscerally evocative; painting

15. steak sliding down wall at Pompideau (male artist; maybe 2004 or 2005)

      it was included in the Pompideau's first real exhibit of interactive art I think

16. the experiment where people wore glasses that inverted the world;

      they adapted over a certain period of time (I need to know what that
      period of time was); maybe 1889? Perhaps ask Brian Fisher, as this
      is often cited in perception books

17. Flesh by Scofidio and Diller

(the most provocative images, maybe 3 or so)

18. Graphic design: a poster by the designer who inscribes himself with typography

      (that is, he cuts into his skin; Jayme will know the name of the guy)  

19. Movie: Crocuhing Tiger, Hidden Dragon

http://www.angelfire.com/movies/johnswebpage/tiger.html (Accessed Nov. 28)

20. thaipusam

http://www.flickr.com/photos/azharmahfof/272061199/ (Nov. 28)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/root-2/231460288/ (Nov. 28)

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/worldguide/destinations/asia/singapore?v=images&a=5 (Nov. 28)

21. Stills from film director Cronenberg

     a) 5 or 6 from the movie about computer game
     b) an image where the guy put the video in his stomach in Videodrome