Corpus Delecti
Performance art of the Americas

Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica

• Talks about how the Internet has an increasing number of artists working with digital communications technology ever since 1994
• Many artist like Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica was one of these artists
• Oiticica engaged in sensorium exploration like social cultural and architectural 

Headed and senatorial works: hoods, masks, goggles, gloves, body suits.

• Clark made many devices that messed with the visual sensory 
• Many hoods and goggles as well 

Parangoles: Samna and interactive art 

• Implications emerging from Oiticica fusion of geometric abstraction and Samba 
• Oiticica had a premature death 
• Died when he was 43

Body/machines hybrids, interface, and network: interactivity into new realms 

• The cyborg had a hybrid of wet and hard ware 
• Had human characteristics like skin and heartbeat 
• " In search of the body "