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Relevant passages:
Rudolf Frieling «Reality/Mediality
Hybrid Processes Between Art and Life»
Claudia Giannetti «Aesthetic Paradigms of Media Art» Verena Kuni «Mythical Bodies II. Cyborg configurations as formations of (self-)creation in the imagination space of technological (re)production (II): The promises of monsters and posthuman anthropomorphisms» | 2 Marie-Luise Angerer «Postsexual Bodies. The Making of ... Desire, Digital»
Works by ORLAN:
Ceci est mon corps ... ceci est mon logiciel: Omniprésence The Reincarnation of Saint Orlan Refiguration / Self-Hybridation
Web-Links:
ORLAN
* 1947 in Saint-Etienne (F); lives and works in Paris since 1983. 1964 already her first performances and photographies; founder of the Performance-Symposium in Lyon; ORLAN produces body related works that deal with female identity in the history of art; in 1977 she gains recognition with a provocative performance «Le baiser de l’artiste»; 1982 founder of the first electronic art magazine in France accessed via Minitel: »Art-Accès Revue«; 1984 lecturer at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Dijon; 1990 starts her series of plastic surgery, with which she becomes known worldwide.
