{"id":100,"date":"2016-01-21T13:50:06","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T18:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts-calendar\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=100"},"modified":"2016-01-21T14:01:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T19:01:03","slug":"life-in-the-age-of-cyborgs","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts-calendar\/event\/life-in-the-age-of-cyborgs\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in the Age of Cyborgs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Harbisson is a Catalan-\u00adraised, British-\u00adborn contemporary artist and cyborg activist best known for\u00a0having an antenna implanted in his skull and for being officially recognized as a cyborg by a government.\u00a0The antenna allows him to perceive visible and invisible colours such as infrareds and ultraviolets via\u00a0sound waves. The antenna\u2019s internet connection allows him to receive colors from space as well as\u00a0images, videos, music or phone calls directly into his head via external devices such as mobile phones or\u00a0satellites. Harbisson identifies himself as a cyborg, he feels both his mind and body are united to\u00a0cybernetics. He doesn\u2019t feel he is using or wearing technology, instead he feels he is technology. His\u00a0artworks investigate the relationship between colour and sound, experiment the boundaries of human\u00a0perception and explore the use of artistic expression via sensory extensions. In 2010 he co\u00ad\u00adfounded the\u00a0Cyborg Foundation with Moon Ribas, an international organization that aims to help humans become\u00a0cyborgs, defend cyborg rights and promote cyborgism as a social and artistic movement.<\/p>\n<p>On April 11, Harbisson will give a talk entitled &#8220;Life in the Age of Cyborgs&#8221; regarding how becoming a cyborg has brought him closer to nature and to animals as a part of the second Sonic Cyborgs residency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neil Harbisson is a Catalan-\u00adraised, British-\u00adborn contemporary artist and cyborg activist best known for\u00a0having an antenna implanted in his skull and for being officially recognized as a cyborg by a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2579,"featured_media":101,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-100","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts-calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}