page_title: Neil Harbisson
section_title: Performances and exhibitions
hierarchical_section_title: Neil Harbisson / Performances and exhibitions
caption_attribution_description: English: Sonochromatic Records by Neil Harbisson. Exhibited in New York.
context_page_description: Neil Harbisson is a Spanish-born British-Irish cyborg artist and activist for transpecies rights based in New York City. He is best known for being the first person in the world with an antenna implanted in his skull and for being legally recognized as a cyborg by a government. His antenna sends audible vibrations through his skull to report information to him. This includes measurements of electromagnetic radiation, phone calls, and music, as well as videos or images which are translated into audible vibrations. His WiFi-enabled antenna also allows him to receive signals and data from satellites.
  Since 2004, international media has described him as the world's first cyborg or the world's first cyborg artist. In 2010, he co-founded the Cyborg Foundation, an international organisation that defends cyborg rights, promotes cyborg art and supports people who want to become cyborgs. In 2017, he co-founded the Transpecies Society, an association that gives voice to people with non-human identities, raises awareness of the challenges transpecies face, advocates for the freedom of self-design and offers the development of new senses and organs in community.
context_section_description: Harbisson's artwork has been ranked together with the works of Yoko Ono and Marina Abramović as one of the 10 most shocking art performances ever. His work is focused on the creation of new senses and the creation of external artworks through these new senses. 
  His main works have been exhibited during the 54th Venice Biennale at Palazzo Foscari (Venice, Italy), Savina Museum of Contemporary Art (Seoul, South Korea), 
  Museumsquartier (Vienna, Austria), CCCB, Pioneer Works (New York, USA),ArtScience Museum (Singapore) Centre d'Art Santa Mònica (Barcelona, Spain), Pollock Gallery, and at the American Visionary Art Museum, among others.
  Harbisson has created a series of "Sound Portraits" by standing in front of a person and pointing his antenna at different parts of the face, writing down the different notes he hears and later creating a sound file. He has created live portraits of Philip Glass, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Iris Apfel, Oliver Stone, Steve Reich, Bono, Buzz Aldrin, Solange, Bill Viola, Prince Charles, Woody Allen, Antoni Tàpies, Leonardo DiCaprio, Judi Dench, Moby, James Cameron, Peter Brook, Al Gore, Tim Berners-Lee, Macy Gray, Gael García Bernal, Alfonso Cuarón, Ryoji Ikeda, Gabriel Byrne, Prince Albert II of Monaco, Steve Wozniak, Oliver Sacks, and Giorgio Moroder, among others.
  Harbisson's "Colour Scores" are a series of paintings based on the transposition of sounds, music or voices into colour.
  In 2009, Harbisson published the Human Colour Wheel based on the hue and light detected on hundreds of human skins from 2004 to 2009. The aim of the study was to state that humans are not black or white, but are different shades of orange - from very dark orange to very light orange.
  Under the title Capital Colours, Harbisson has exhibited the dominant colours of different cities he has visited. He scans the colours of each city until he is able to represent it with at least two hues.
caption: Sonochromatic Records exhibited at Pioneer Works, New York (2014)
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