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| Your Personal Biography |
Neil Harbisson is the first person in the world to be fitted with an eyeborg.
Harbisson, a completely colourblind artist and pianist, previously only painted in black and white. Now he is painting in colour.
Adam Montandon from HMC MediaLab has built a system that hijacks Neil Harbisson’s other senses by allowing him to “see” colour through his ears.
It works with a head mounted camera that reads the colours directly in front of a person, and converts them in real-time, via computer, into sound waves.
The eyeborg creates a new sensation, a cyborgian extention of the human perception residing in both the brain and the hard-drive.
Harbisson wears his eyeborg 24 hours a day. He became the first person in the world whose passport recognizes him as a cyborg.
Neil Harbisson was offically born in Mataro (Barcelona, Spain) on July 27th 1982, less than 150 years to the day that John Dalton (the first person ever to record and write about colour-blindness) died. Neil was born with achromatopsia, a form of total colourblindess, meaning he can only see in black, white and shades of grey.
Neil began to study music when he was 6 and began playing the piano when he was 8. The piano, a black and white instrument, became his tool of expression from the age of 11 when he began to compose piano pieces related to the mysterious existence of colour.
After successfully completing his art studies in Mataro, Neil travelled to Dublin where he continued his piano studies at Walton’s School of Music and in the following year he was accepted to study composition at Dartington College of Arts in the UK. |
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