Alternate Anatomical Architectures | Stelarc | TEDxVienna

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. In this age of gene mapping, body hacking, face transplants, gender reassignment, prosthetic augmentation and neural implants, what a body is and how a body operates has become problematic. We face a future of stem-cell grown and bio-printed organs, prosthetic parts and exoskeletons. The body has become a contemporary chimera – a construct of meat, metal and code that performs as an extended operational system. Stel