File:CYBORG FOUNDATION - Rafel Duran Torrent

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CYBORG FOUNDATION is the Grand Jury Prize Winner in the $200,000 GE FOCUS FORWARD Filmmaker Competition. Watch the winners at http://www.focusforwardfilms.com/winners.

Neil Harbisson was born with achromatopsia, a rare condition that causes complete colour blindness. In 2004, Harbisson and Adam Montandon developed the eyeborg, a device that translates colours into sounds.

Harbisson has been claimed to be the first recognized cyborg in the world, as his passport photo now includes his device. In 2010, Neil Harbisson and Moon Ribas created the Cyborg Foundation, an international organization to help humans become cyborgs. The foundation has also experimented with other sensory devices, including an “earborg,” which translates sound into color, and a “speedborg,” which allows people to detect movement through electronic earrings that vibrate.

Directed & Produced & Edited by: Rafel Duran Torrent

Image & Sound: Filma-T Produccions (Anna Moradell & Joan Figueras)

Video Effects: Rafel Duran Torrent, Harald Donner

Music: Neil Harbisson

Lighting: X So (Xavi Fusté & Miquel Gasol)

Cyborg Foundation: Neil Harbisson & Moon Ribas

Sound Postproduction: Jens Erdmann

Footage provided by: El Xip Multicolor

Pictures used with permission of Campus Party Mexico and Christopher Jones

Special thanks to: Roger Soldevila, Palau de la Música Catalana, Mercat de la Boqueria, Arts Santa Mònica, Come&See Catalan Performing Arts Market, Supermercats Caprabo, Gabrielle Wessling

Tags: cyborg, cyborg foundation, neil harbisson, rafel duran torrent, eyeborg, moon ribas, Focus Forward, competition, cash prize, innovation, invention, documentary, GE, Cinelan