at work, we have special company-wide meetings where a speaker is featured to talk about their work, either art, design, or a whole host of other disciplines. a few weeks ago, the most amazing experience happened when Neil Harbisson, self-proclaimed "cyborg," gave a talk about his art practice. Harbisson was born without the ability to see color, and for the past few years, has been developing an "eyeborg" that allows him to hear color, and therefore experience color.
i can't explain how wonderful and amazing his talk was, so i'll let him cover that, in his own words, in various articles, and a TED talk i found online. he's incredibly charismatic, and has a true thirst for knowledge and tenacity that is admirable.
from Slate, on cyborg rights: slate.com. Harbisson founded a non-profit organization for cyborg rights, called the Cyborg Foundation.
from the TED talks website:
http://www.ted.com/speakers/neil_harbisson.html
from huffpo Life As series: Neil Harbisson interview
and, finally, Harbisson's website
perhaps this piqued my interest so intensely because of my own condition, stereoblindness. i'd love to pick Neil Harbisson's brain about a cyborg creation that i could use to see in the third dimension. more about stereoblindness, running into walls, and only seeing in 2D later.
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