Thanks to the antenna implanted in his skull, Neil Harbisson can hear images and paint sounds. The world's first cyborg artist tells Stuart Jeffries why ringtones are green and Amy Winehouse is red and pink
Neil Harbisson: John Cage - 4'33
Neil Harbisson was born with achromatopsia, complete color blindness. He sees in grayscale but can HEAR color. Munsell interviews Harbisson in our 6 part series.
Human cyborg Neil Harbisson, with a chip attached to his head, can pick up the sound of clothes, distinguishes twins by their skin color and can determine whether a bank’s alarm system is turned on by detecting the infrared radiation sensor.
Advances in prosthetics, implants and bioengineering are allowing us to alter ourselves in new and unprecedented ways – not only to beautify or overcome deficiencies, but to enhance and exceed our current capabilities.
A beautiful graphic from Superinteressante magazine shows precisely which colors strike which musical note for an intrepid “eyeborg”-wearer.
Humans will need to digitally enhance our brains if we are to remain relevant in a future filled with artificial intelligences, Elon Musk says.
Matthew Barney is considered by most American critics, at the top of the ongoing aesthetic research. Submerged in sculpture, performance, photography, drawing and film, he is an imagist talent with unconstrained creativity and visionarinesses.
Since the industrial revolution, humankind has been both fascinated and frightened by what the hands of women and men can create. From the very beginning
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NEW YORK — When Neil Harbisson gets out of a car, the antenna coming out of his head sometimes gets stuck in branches. It’s one of the things he had to get used to when he became a cyborg. Protruding from the back of Harbisson’s skull is a metal antenna that allows him to convert […]
