Moon Ribas
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Cyborg artist Moon Ribas.
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24 May 1985 Spain |
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| Notable work | Seismic Percussion, Seismic Dance |
| Movement | Cyborg art |
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| Website | www.moonribas.com |
Moon Ribas (born 24 May 1985) is a Catalan avant-garde artist and cyborg activist best known for developing and implanting an online seismic sensor in her elbow that allows her to feel earthquakes through vibrations. Her choreography works are based on the exploration of new movements developed by the addition of new senses or sensory extensions to the dancer. She is the co-founder of the Cyborg Foundation, an international organisation that encourages humans to become cyborgs and promotes cyborgism as an art movement. Moon is also a co-founder at Cyborg Nest, a company aiming to help people become cyborgs and extend their senses.
Moon Ribas grew up in Mataró (Spain) and moved to England at the age of 18 where she studied experimental dance and graduated in choreography at Dartington College of Arts (England) and Movement Research at SNDO Theaterschool (Amsterdam). During her studies she began to explore the possibilities of sensory extensions by applying technology to her body.
In 2013, Moon developed a sensor that vibrates whenever there's an earthquake in the planet. The sensor, which is permanently attached to her elbow, vibrates in different levels depending on the intensity of each earthquakes and is wirelessly connected to online seismographs, which means she can feel earthquakes from all over the world regardless of where she is. Moon has been wearing the sensor permanently since March 2013 and has used her seismic sense to create dance pieces. Waiting for Earthquakes is a solo dance performance where the dancer stands still until an earthquake is felt. The choreography depends on the earthquakes felt during the duration of the performance and the intensity of the dancer's movements depend on the magnitude of each earthquake (which can be felt from 1.0 in the Richter Scale). If there are no earthquakes during the time of performance the dancer will not dance. The piece was premiered on March 28, 2013 at Nau Ivanow, Barcelona.
Moon's first sensory experiment was in 2007 when she created and wore a pair of kaleidoscopic glasses for three months. The glasses only allowed her to see colour, no shape. The lack of shape perception increased not only her sense of colour discrimination but also her detection of movement. Any slight change of colour in her field of vision indicated that something had moved. During the three-month period, Moon visited several cities in Europe and met people without ever seeing their faces.
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