Moon Ribas (cyborg artist) on How to Become a Cyborg | TNW Conference 2017

The Sixth Sense: How to Become a Cyborg Moon Ribas is a cyborg artist who implemented a sensor in her arm that can detect earth’ seismic activity. No matter where she is, she can detect movement, and in this way is connected to the earth in a deeper way. It’s like a new, an extra sense. During her conversation with Wester van Gaal, she will talk about the possibility to design your own senses and what becoming a cyborg entails. Moon Ribas CYBORG ARTIST Moon Ribas is a Catalan contemporary choreographer and the co-founder of the Cyborg Foundation, an international organization that aims to help people become cyborgs, defend cyborg rights and promote cyborgism as an artistic and social movement. Moon graduated in Choreography at Dartington College of Arts (England) and studied at Theatre school of Amsterdam SNDO (School for New Dance Development). Since 2007 Moon has been experimenting with different cybernetics devices that allow her to perceive movement in a deeper way. Moon's main research consists in developing the seismic sense, perceiving the movement of real-time earthquakes all around the world, small as 1 in Richter scale. Moon then translates this new sense on stage, her main piece is called Waiting for Earthquakes, a piece where she stands waiting for an earthquake to take place, when this happen she moves according to the intensity of the earthquake, so if there are no earthquakes there will be no dance. Ribas has performed and given talks in several venues and festivals such as TedxMunich (Germany), TedxMuscat (Oman), Campus Party London (UK), Fierce Fest (UK) or TNT (Festival of New Trends, Spain)