Discuss: Antenna implanted in cyborg's skull gets Wi-Fi, color as sound
"Why did he decide to have the antenna implanted into his skull? Since its creation the foundation has kick-started several new-sense development projects and has donated cyborg antennas to blind communities in Europe, Asia and America. Have you ever thought how would the world be like without its colors? I'm used to hearing color as much as people are used to seeing it. It's mainly defending that we should have the same rights as everyone else. In the process, he became the world's first cyborg artist.Harbisson, 31, is very serious about being regarded as a cyborg.
So it's an antenna that goes directly inside my bone. To me color is never a visual perception. So I'm more conscious of sound than music. Il grandit à Mataró (Espagne) où il étudie la musique, la danse et le théâtre dans diverses écoles . So this is very different. Dangling over his forehead is an antenna that curves up and over from the back of his skull. So for people who see color it's the perception of vision -- color is a visual interference.
"It's an artistic statement – I'm treating my own body and brain as a sculpture. At the beginning I felt that I didn't have the antenna, so I felt weird because I didn't feel it. Far from a disability, Harbisson … Lars Norgaard "I know what you mean about insects," he laughs. Smart
Neil Harbisson naît avec l’achromatopsie, une particularité qui ne lui permet de voir qu’en noir et blanc.
"We will have skull-to-skull communication." "It has freed me to become something else," he says.
And not feeling the pressure is also very different.
I wanted to have a sense of color and that's why I chose sound, not sight, because I think sound can be much more precise than vision. His art often involves transposing colours into sound: the results are facial portraits you can hear.
So in cases of not being allowed into a place because you use technology as a part of your body, that's something that we should defend. It's what happens when I sleep as well. He argued that it was not a piece of technology but part of his body, and they eventually yielded – a first for cyborg rights.How far he still has to go was shown in 2012 when police in Barcelona demanded he stopped filming a demonstration. Yes, there was a television program and they wanted to test my brain so we went to this brain center in Valencia. 1 on the Richter scale. Like the previous version, his new model can sense 360 different colors and pick up ultraviolet and infrared frequencies. Yes, that's how I dress. "That was one of the worst days of my life. "We will then be able to explore new languages and ways of communicating that go beyond our traditional senses," he says. Before he met cyberneticist Adam Montandon at a college lecture, Harbisson could only see in black and white.
One is for the audio input, the other is for the antenna, and the third one is actually a spare one. Harbisson also does the reverse, creating pictures from, say, the sound of the human voice. When I was able to perceive 360 colors, then I included infrared and other colors. The aim was just to extend a sense.Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic.