Stelarc

"This australian artist is interested in the evolutionary architecture of the body and possible ways of redesigning the human augmented by implants and exoskeletons. His previous works include suspending himself with a series of hook in his own skin, and he has performed with a third hand, with a virtual arm and with a virtual body. His works Ping body and Parasite probe notions of engineering external, extended and virtual nervous systems for the body using the internet. recently he had a third, soon-to-be-functional ear implanted, grown from stem cells".
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Stelarc explored the extraordinary things that our bodies can do, taking it to the extreme and pushing himself as far as possible - such as when he suspended himself in the air using only hooks that were attached to his skin, something that us, as humans would think impossible as well as something that should just never be done. 

"Stelarc is a performance artist who has visually probed and acoustically amplified his body. He has made three films of the inside of his body. Between 1976-1988 he completed 25 body suspension performances with hooks into the skin. He has used medical instruments, prosthetics, robotics, Virtual Reality systems, the Internet and biotechnology to explore alternate, intimate and involuntary interfaces with the body." http://stelarc.org/?catID=20239