Prosthetic Head is a 3D avatar head that has real time lip-syncing, speech synthesis and facial expressions.  The head nods, tilts and turns, the gaze of its eyes shifts, all contributing to its ‘personality’ through sets of non-verbal cues.  This is a conversational system that is only as intelligent as the person interrogating it.  

 

Stelarc will present an Artist Talk Saturday, September 22 at 7:00 pm.

Stelarc is an Australian performance artist whose works focus heavily on futurism and extending the capabilities of the human body. As such, most of his pieces are centered around his concept that the human body is obsolete. He currently serves as Principal Research Fellow in the Performance Arts Digital Research Unit at Nottingham Trent University in Nottingham, England.