1. Moon Ribas was born on 24 May 1985 and is a Spanish cyborg activist and avant-garde artist best known for developing and implanting online seismic sensors in her feet that allow her to feel earthquakes through vibrations.
11 Facts About Moon Ribas
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Moon Ribas is the co-founder of the Cyborg Foundation, an international organisation that encourages humans to become cyborgs and promotes cyborgism as an art movement and the co-founder of the Transpecies Society, an association that gives voice to people with non-human identities and offers the development of new senses and organs in community.
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Moon Ribas grew up in Mataro, Catalonia, 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.
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In 2013, Moon developed a sensor that vibrates whenever there's an earthquake in the planet.
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Moon Ribas has been wearing the sensor permanently since March 2013 and has used her seismic sense to create dance pieces.
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Moon Ribas discusses this in depth in the Shaping Business Minds Through Art podcast in 2020.
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In 2008, Moon Ribas created a speedometer glove that allowed her to perceive the exact speed of any movement around her through vibrations on her hand.
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Moon Ribas wore the glove for several months and was able to sense different speeds depending on the vibration intervals.
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Moon Ribas later transformed the glove into a pair of earrings that vibrated whenever there was presence around her.
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Moon Ribas travelled around Europe with her speedborg earrings to find out what the average walking speed of citizens was in different cities.
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In 2010, Moon Ribas explored the possibilities of sensing movement behind her by turning the speedborg earrings around.