Ear on Arm, 2008. Image credit: Nina Sellars

Our friends at design boom turned us on the work of Australian performance artist Stelios Arcadious AKA “Stelarc,” a man who fancies using his own body as a canvas to explore human-machine interfaces. That really is an ear implanted on his arm, grown from some of his own stem cells. Sterlarc plans to employ it as a remote listening device, explaining, “someone in Venice could listen to what my ear is hearing in Melbourne.” More images of the ear, and some video, after the jump.

Ear on Arm, 2008. Image credit: Nina Sellars