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Moon Ribas
Avant-Garde Artist & Cyborg Activist | Co-Founder of the Cyborg Foundation and Transpecies Society | Creator of the Seismic Sense
Co-founder of the Cyborg Foundation and Transpecies Society, cyborg speaker Moon Ribas is the first person to feel earthquakes through implanted seismic sensors. Her TED-featured work turns the planet's tremors into music and dance, and her keynotes push executives to rethink the body as a creative interface for technology, identity, and the future of perception.
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Moon Ribas biography
Cyborg speaker Moon Ribas is a Catalan avant-garde artist and activist who transformed her own body into an instrument for perceiving the planet. After implanting online seismic sensors in her feet, she became the first person to feel earthquakes in real time as vibrations under her skin, turning a geological phenomenon into a continuous, intimate sensory experience that she carries with her everywhere.
From this body-Earth connection she developed two signature performance pieces. In Seismic Percussion, she translates incoming tremors into live drumming and music, allowing the planet itself to compose in real time. In Waiting for Earthquakes, she lets the Earth choreograph her dance, moving only when seismic activity reaches her body. The Earth becomes co-author of the work, while Ribas serves as its interpreter on stage. She has since extended her sense beyond our planet, receiving signals from moonquakes and effectively allowing her body to inhabit Earth and the Moon at once.
Cyborg Activism, Art, and the Future of Human Senses
Co-founder of the Cyborg Foundation alongside fellow cyborg artist Neil Harbisson, Ribas helps people design and implement new senses, defends cyborg rights, and frames cyborgism as both an artistic and civil rights movement. She is also co-founder of the Transpecies Society, an organization that advocates for non-human identities, the freedom of self-design, and the collective development of new senses and new organs in community.
Her work has been featured at TED, in international media, and at design, technology, and art festivals worldwide. She has spoken to audiences in arts, science, and corporate innovation environments alike. Her practice sits at the intersection of innovation, bioethics, performance, and design, asking what it means to redefine the human body as a creative medium and a site of perception.
As a speaker, Moon Ribas invites executive audiences to rethink technology not as something we use but as something we can become. Her keynotes explore how extended senses, transpecies thinking, and human-machine integration will reshape creativity, identity, and the leadership conversations of the decade ahead.
Moon Ribas Speaking Videos
Moon Ribas - Seismic Percussion
Moon Ribas - Searching for my sense
Moon Ribas Keynote Topics
Moon Ribas explores what it means to live as a cyborg artist, drawing on her own experience of integrating seismic sensors into her body to perceive earthquakes in real time. She unpacks the artistic, philosophical, and ethical questions that emerge when technology stops being an external tool and becomes part of the self.
Through vivid stories and live demonstrations, she challenges audiences to reconsider where the human body ends and where technology begins, and to imagine how organizations and individuals might use augmented senses to perceive markets, customers, and reality itself in entirely new ways.
In Earthbeat, Moon Ribas takes audiences on a transformative journey into the connection between the human body, planetary movement, and sound. She shares how she developed an art form that fuses her seismic sense with live sonic landscapes, allowing the Earth itself to perform alongside her on stage.
The keynote invites senior audiences to rethink listening as a leadership skill, and to consider how slowing down and attending to deeper signals, whether geological, cultural, or organizational, can unlock more creative and humane decision-making.
In this one-of-a-kind keynote performance, Moon Ribas brings audiences inside her practice of Seismic Percussion, where her body becomes the link between earthquakes and music. She walks through the creative process behind translating real-time seismic data into percussion, sharing the breakthroughs and limits she has encountered along the way.
More than a performance, the session is an exploration of co-creation: what it means to design experiences where humans, technology, and the natural world all contribute to the outcome. It leaves leaders with a powerful metaphor for collaboration in a world increasingly shaped by intelligent systems.
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FAQs on Booking Moon Ribas
Why Moon Ribas?
Few speakers can claim what Moon Ribas can: she has literally rebuilt her own sense of perception. As one of the world's first cyborg artists and co-founder of both the Cyborg Foundation and the Transpecies Society, she brings a perspective on technology, identity, and human potential that no theoretical futurist can match. Her keynotes blend live performance with deep reflection on bioethics, art, and innovation, leaving executive audiences with a visceral understanding of what human-machine integration really looks like. Book Moon Ribas through Aurum Speakers Bureau to bring a genuinely one-of-a-kind voice on the future of the human body to your next event.
What is the Cyborg Foundation?
The Cyborg Foundation is an international organization co-founded by Moon Ribas and Neil Harbisson that supports people who want to extend their senses or perception through technological implants. It defends cyborg rights, promotes cyborgism as an art movement, and helps connect researchers, artists, and engineers working on new senses and organs. It is a key reference point in the global conversation about transhumanism, body autonomy, and the future of human identity.
What is the Seismic Sense?
The Seismic Sense is the augmented sense that Moon Ribas created by implanting online seismic sensors into her feet. When an earthquake happens anywhere in the world, the sensors translate the data into vibrations she feels in her body, in real time. She uses this new sense as the foundation for her performances, transforming planetary movement into sound, percussion, and choreography. It is widely cited as one of the most poetic examples of how technology can expand, rather than replace, human perception.
What kind of events is Moon Ribas best suited for?
Moon Ribas is a strong fit for innovation summits, design conferences, leadership offsites focused on the future, and brand events where organizations want to challenge their audience with bold ideas. Her hybrid format, part keynote and part performance, works especially well as a closing or anchor session, and translates across industries from technology and finance to healthcare, education, and the creative sector. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to discuss how a Moon Ribas keynote can be tailored to your audience and theme.
How to book Moon Ribas as a keynote speaker?
Aurum Speakers Bureau can help you book Moon Ribas as a speaker for your next event, conference, or board meeting. Simply fill out our contact form to inquire about Moon Ribas's availability for a speaking engagement. One of our booking agents will respond to your request immediately and contact the speaker to let them know you want to hire them. We will assist you with obtaining speaking fees, booking information, and confirming availability for Moon Ribas or any other top keynote speaker or celebrity of your choice.
How much is Moon Ribas speaking fee?
Moon Ribas speaking fees are determined by several factors, including the event's date, whether it's a virtual or in-person event, the duration, format, preparation required for their speech, and more. The same applies to the cost to hire any other top expert speakers and celebrities. The Speaker Fee Range listed on our website is simply a guideline and is subject to change without notice. If you would like to hire Moon Ribas to deliver a keynote speech for your event, please fill out the contact form or email us at info@aurumbureau.com with as much detail as possible. One of our experienced agents will get in touch with you and let you know exactly how much it will cost to book Moon Ribas.
How can I contact Moon Ribas?
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Can I book Moon Ribas for a virtual keynote?
Yes, Moon Ribas is available for virtual keynotes and webinars. To book Moon Ribas for a virtual event, please complete the contact form or send us an email to inquire about the special fees for virtual engagements.
