Outline - Paper

Introduction

I am going to discuss 3 events that took place at the Ars Electronica Festival Sept 1997.

	Parasite - a performance by Australian Artist Stelarc
	Solve et Coagula - an installation by Norwegian artists Stahl Stenslie and Knut Mork
	A lecture on Intelligent Agents - by Pattie Maes ,BelgianAI/IA researcher at MIT's MediaLab.

Parasite

• Description
• Internet - extruded body rather that disembodiment. (vrml images)
• Stelarc's claims for his piece versus actuality
• Issues stirred up by performance
• Who can so easily play at invasion?
• Kinship with other radical practise involving body
• Cyborg body in social context

Solve et Coagula

• Description - the beast in the machine
• Stenslie's claims versus actuality
• Fun factor
• And sexuality
• Gendered cyber being

Intelligent Agents

• Description
• Claims versus actuality
• Maes future is whose future?
• Maes future v Gomez Pena future
• Software agents in the real world
• Submissive software agents
• Positivist Patty
• Software agents and social issues
• Maes explanations
• Further problems

Conclusion

• art and science
• future of human being not quantum leap from present