[accessibleimage] Cyborg Enables Color-Blind Artist to Hear His Palette

http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/02/cyborg-enables.html
Cyborg Enables Color-Blind Artist to Hear His Palette

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"Neil Harbisson was never a fan of Mark Rothko <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rothko>. Or any abstract artist for that matter. Harbisson's extreme color blindness - a congenital condition called achromatopsia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achromatopsia> - dulled even great works based on shape and tone rather than pictoral image.

But now his life - and his art - have been transformed by a device called the Eyeborg, which enables him to perceive color by sound, and to - quite literally - "compose" paintings (see his self-portrait, right, and others here)." <http://www.harbisson.com>


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