Sk-interfaces : exploding borders : creating membranes in art, technology and society / edited by Jens Hauser.

Exploding borders : creating membranes in art, technology and society

Liverpool : FACT : Liverpool University Press, 2008.

160 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 30 cm

Exhibition dates from website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Welcoming sk-interfaces to FACT / Mike Stubbs -- Culturing change / Marta Rupérez -- Who's afraid of the in-between? / Jens Hauser -- The return of Marsyas : creative skin / Stéphane Dumas -- McLuhan and the body as medium / Richard Cavell -- Endogenous design of biofacts : tissues and networks in bio art and life science / Nicole C. Karafyllis -- Fitter, better, stronger, faster / John A. Hunt -- e-skin : research into wearable interfaces, cross-modal perception and communication for the visually impaired on the mediated stage / Jill Scott -- Feel me touch me : the hymNext project / Julia Reodica -- In the face of the victim : confronting the other in the tissue culture and art project / Adele Senior -- Harlequin coat / Orlan ; Secularism, preface / from Michel Serres -- The fusional haptics of art orienté objet / Marion Laval-Jeantet -- Marsyas : beside myself / Kira O'Reilly -- Extra ear : ear on arm / Stelarc -- The telepresence garment / Eduardo Kac -- World skin : a photo safari in a land of war / Maurice Benayoun -- Why Immolation? / Critical Art Ensemble -- The office of experiments' truth serum threat : notes on the psychopharmacology of truthfulness / Nicolas Langlitz -- Wim Delvoye's Sybille II / Ralf Kotschka -- Immobile, bleu ... remix! / Yann Marussich -- Biological habitat : developing living spaces / Zbigniew Oksiuta -- Light, only light / Jun Takita -- The Midas project / Paul Thomas -- Re-thinking touch / Zane Berzina -- Olivier Goulet's SkinBag Corps. EXT / Fabienne Stahl.

Published to accompany the exhibition Sk-interfaces held at FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology),1 February 2008 - 03 March 2008.