Neil Harbisson Biography

For years now colorblind artist Neil Harbisson has used a special head-mounted device to help him translate colors into sound. Not content to wear it on the head for the rest of his life however Harbisson has decided to have it surgically implanted. The upcoming procedure is part of the European artist's larger effort to get people accustomed to the idea of cybernetic implants. Born with the inability to see color Neil Harbisson wears a prosthetic device he calls it an eyeborg that allows him to hear the spectrum even those colors beyond the range of human sight. His unique experience of color informs his artwork which until he met cyberneticist Adam Montandon at a college lecture was strictly black-and-white. By working with Montandon and later with Peter Kese Harbisson helped design a lightweight eyepiece that he wears on his forehead that transposes the light frequencies of color hues into sound frequencies. Harbisson's artwork blurs the boundaries between sight and sound.

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