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For Ping Body Stelarc wired himself up to the internet and allowed users to access a website and send signals to the various nodes on his body by “pinging” different body parts…
This is from Stelarc, the performance artist mentioned by Miller (2011: 215), exploring ‘technological bodies’. This brings to mind the way technology is often viewed as an ‘enhancement’ or ‘tool’ (Bayne 2015) for education, with the ‘human’ placed firmly at the centre, rather than a more nuanced and complex entanglement.