This week on the Ian Khan show I spoke to Moon Ribas. Both Moon and I are contributors to the recent book “After Shock”
Who is Moon Ribas ?
Moon Ribas is a Catalan avant-garde artist and cyborg activist best known for developing the Seismic Sense, an online seismic sensor once implanted in her feet that allowed her to perceive earthquakes taking place anywhere in the planet through vibrations in real time. In order to share her experience, she then translated her seismic sense on stage. Ribas transposed the earthquakes into either sound, in her piece Seismic Percussion; or dance, in Waiting For Earthquakes. In these performances the Earth is the composer and the choreographer; and Ribas, the interpreter. Ribas’ seismic sense also allowed her to feel moonquakes, the seismic activity on the Moon. Ribas believes that by extending our senses to perceive outside the planet, we can all become senstronauts. Adding this new sense allowed her to be physically on Earth while her feet felt the Moon, so in a way, she was on Earth and space at the same time. Since 2007 Moon has been experimenting with the union between technology and her body to explore the boundaries of perception and to experience movement in a deeper way. Some of her previous research includes transdental communication, 360º perception and the Speedborg. In 2010 she co-founded the Cyborg Foundation, an international organisation that aims to help people become cyborgs, defend cyborg rights and promote cyborg art. Ribas also co-founded the Transpecies Society in 2017, an association that gives voice to non-human identities, defends the freedom of self-design and offers the creation of new senses and new organs in community.
After Shock Episodes
Alan Kay, Aaron Frank, Adrienne Mayor, Alexander Mankowsky, Alexandra Ivanovitch, Alisha Bhagat, Amy Zalman, Anders Sorman-Nilsson, Andra Keay, Andrew Curry, Andy Hines, Anita Sengupta, Anne Lise Kjaer, Aris Persidis, Aubrey de Grey, Barry O’Reilly, Barry Vacker, Bill Davidow, Bill Diamond, Bryan Alexander, Byron Reese, Carlos Osorio, Carver Mead, Cat Tully, Cindy Frewen, Clem Bezold, Daniel Burrus, Daniel Levine, David Brin, David Guston, David Krakauer, David J. Staley, David Weinberger, Deb Westphal, Diane M. Francis, Donna Dupont, Eleanor “Nell” Watson, Eric Daimler, Erica Bol, Erik Qualman, Fotis Sotiropoulos, George Gilder, Grady Booch, Gray Scott, Hannes Sjoblad, Harish Natarajan, Hazel Henderson, Helen Messier, Ian Khan, Ignacio Pena, Jack Uldrich, James Canton, Jane McGonigal, Jason Jackson, Jason Schenker, Jay Gambetta, Jeff Eisenach, Jeffrey C. Bauer, Jerome Glenn , Jerry Fishenden, Joe Dispenza, Joe Tankersley, Joel Garreau, John L. Petersen, John M. Smart, John Sack, John Sanei, John Schroeter, Jonathan Venn, José Morey, Kaitlyn Sadtler, Kirk Borne, Klee Irwin, Kris Østergaard, Lisa Bodell , Maciej Kranz, Martin Guigui, Martin Rees, Maggie Greyson, Michael Tomczyk, Michel Laberge, Mick Ebeling, Moon Ribas, Naveen Jain, Neil Jacobstein, Newt Gingrich, Patricia Lustig & Gill Ringland, Paul Saffo, Paul Stimers, Po Bronson & Arvind Gupta, Ray Kurzweil, Rebecca Costa, Richard Browning, Richard Slaughter, Richard Watson, Richard Yonck, Rodrigo Nieto Gómez, Rohit Bhargava, Ross Dawson, Ruth Miller, Sanjiv Chopra & Pankaj K Vij, Sohail Inayatullah, Sridhar Mahadevan , Stan Rosen Stephanie Mehta , Steve Waite , Tanya Accone, Terrence (Terry) Sejnowski , Teun Koetsier , Theodore Jay Gordon , Thomas Frey , Timothy Chou , Vikram Mansharamani, Wolfgang Fengler, Zoltan Istvan
After Shock Publication Details
ISBN Print: 978-0-9997364-4-9 ISBN eBook: 978-0-9997364-5-6 Please subscribe to this Channel, Like and Share this video. Follow me on social media or visit my website at www.iankhan.com
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