Re-Wired / Re-Mixed: Event for Dismembered Body

“Re-Wired / Re-Mixed: Event for Dismembered Body“ was a five-day, six-hour a day internet enabled performance, that explores the physiological and aesthetic experience of a fragmented, distributed, de-synchronized, distracted and involuntary body – wired and under surveillance. The artist wears a HUD (head up display) that enables him to see with the “eyes” of someone in London, whilst hearing with the “ears” of someone in New York. The body is also augmented by an 8 degrees-of-freedom exoskeleton so that anyone anywhere can generate involuntary movement of his right arm, using an online interface. The artist becomes optically and acoustically de-synchronized and performs partly involuntarily. Although the performance is over, it is still possible to remote control the exoskeleton arm installation using the interface on- Thanks to Steven Aaron Hughes, Rodney Parsons, Steve Berrick, Luke Robert Mason (London) and Lorin Roser (NY). The performance