Presentation given at the Tesla Symposium 'Visions and Imagination: Advanced ICT in Art and Science', organized by Gordana Novakovic at the Department of Computer Science of UCL on 24 November 2007, and funded by AHRC Methods Network.

An extra ear is presently being constructed on my arm. A left ear on a left arm. An ear that does not hear but transmits. A soft prosthesis engineered with skin, and scaffold and augmented electronically. A facial feature has been replicated, relocated and rewired for alternate capabilities. Excess skin was created with an implanted skin expander in the forearm. By injecting saline solution into a subcutaneous port, the kidney shaped silicon implant stretched the skin, forming a pocket of excess skin that was used in surgically constructing the ear. At present it is only a relief of an ear. The third surgical procedure will lift the helix of the ear, construct a soft ear lobe and inject adult stem cells for even better definition. Another procedure will implant a miniature microphone that connected with a blue-tooth transmitter will enable a wireless connection to the internet, making the ear a remote listening device. This will allow people to hear what my ear is listening to where ever each person is. When electronically complete it will form part of a distributed bluetooth headset. The body becomes internet enabled. The extra ear becomes an internet organ.