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  | &lt;span class=&quot;byline&quot;&gt;Vijay Jayaram&lt;/span&gt;
  
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      &lt;p&gt;The Rashid Auditorium in the Hillman Center was packed this past Wednesday afternoon as students eagerly awaited a presentation titled &ldquo;Alternate Anatomical Architectures: The Cadaver, the Comatose, and the Chimera.&rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The lecture was given by Greek-born performance artist Stelios Arkadiou, better known as Stelarc. An honorary professor of arts and robotics at Carnegie Mellon, Stelarc has focused his work on technologically augmenting human physicality in a variety of ways. According to a press release on &lt;em&gt;cmu.edu&lt;/em&gt;, &ldquo;[Stelarc&rsquo;s] visit to campus this week, which will include interchanges with students and an invitation-only performance at The Andy Warhol Museum, is indicative of the university&rsquo;s growing fusion of art and science.&rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&ldquo;The body is a chimeric construct,&rdquo; Stelarc said Wednesday, and to introduce technology into the body is to allow it &ldquo;to perform as an extended operational system.&rdquo; The development of this technology, he continued, is what defines the meaning of being h...&lt;/p&gt;

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