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Wetware
Episode 9 of 10
Biella discovers the different reasons people hack their own bodies.
Biella explores biohacking - the hacking of the human body - and the different reasons why people are becoming cyborgs.
She speaks with artist Moon Ribas about how tech can be used to push the boundaries of creative expression while putting humans in touch with the earth, and even the cosmos, and Winter Mraz an engineer who in the aftermath of a horrific car crash, used various implants to improve her body, and hack her way to an easier way to live with mental and physical disabilities.
Last on
Thu 23 Dec 2021
13:45
麻豆社 Radio 4
Winter Mraz
Winter Mraz is an engineer,聽Intersectional Feminism and Disability Activist, who began to technologically modify her body after a car crash meant she needed 3D printed implants to regain function.
She tells us how her implants are useful for her physical and mental health, and explains why for the disabled community it's so important to have the right to hack the body.
She tells us how her implants are useful for her physical and mental health, and explains why for the disabled community it's so important to have the right to hack the body.
Moon Ribas
Moon Ribas is a Catalan avant-garde artist and a cyborg. She is best known for developing the Seismic Sense, an online seismic sensor implanted in her feet that allows her to perceive earthquakes taking place anywhere in the planet through vibrations in real time - and the dance peice with which she shares it with the world - Waiting for Earthquakes.聽
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.聽
She tells us how creating new senses with technology can open up new channels of reality for humans, and allow us to connect with the world in new and profound ways.
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.聽
She tells us how creating new senses with technology can open up new channels of reality for humans, and allow us to connect with the world in new and profound ways.
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- Thu 23 Dec 2021 13:45麻豆社 Radio 4
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