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I think it's kind of a reach, at this point anyway, to presume that our machines are using us. That would suggest intent and, at least in the case of Stelarc, hooks and wires aren't planning on taking over the world. 

Is it possible that, in the future, as machines grow more sophisticated, that something happens and humans lose their dominance over their creations? Perhaps. But that's assuming that we're dominant to begin with.

While I found Stelarc's suspension performances rather disturbing, I don't know that I'm too disinclined to incorporating technology into who I am. Because I already have been for a long time, since I was born, as have our ancestors, those recent and those in the far past. We are predisposed to using tools to do what we cannot on our own.

I don't think that's a bad thing.

What I do think we have to be careful about is relying too heavily on technology to do our work. Think of how we would all communicate if the Internet, for whatever reason, shut down?...

Mass chaos.

Kind of scary.