Flipping the screen to look at a canvas, he might ask an art handler to take a work down and examine it under the black light, just as in real life. On the bright side, “I don’t have to worry ...

Neil Harbisson, the world’s first ‘cyborg artist’, is set to enchant the audience at the Dubai Canvas Festival 2016 with his musical interpretations of Dubai’s colours.

The cyborg-art collaboration began three years ago. Harbisson heard Montandon lecture at Dartington College of Arts in England, when a student there, and went up to him afterwards.

Art is therefore often an important part of political movements, and the fight for cyborg rights is no different. Harbisson and Ribas are two of the most well-known cyborg activists using art to ...