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Natasha Vita-More | Transhuman Art

Posted: January 4, 2016 at 5:42 pm

Natashas research concerns the aesthetics of human enhancement and radical life extension, with a focus on sciences and technologies of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive and neuro sciences (NBIC). Her conceptual future human design Primo Posthuman has been featured in Wired, Harpers Bazaar, Marie Claire, The New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, Net Business, Teleopolis, and Village Voice. She has appeared in over twenty-four televised documentaries on the future and culture, and has exhibited media artworks at National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Brooks Memorial Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Women In Video, Telluride Film Festival, and United States Film Festival and recently Evolution Haute Couture: Art and Science in the Post-Biological Age. Natasha has been the recipient of several awards: First Place Award at Brooks Memorial Museum, Special Recognition at Women in Video, and Best Graduate Student Project of 2005 for her Futures Podcast Series: at the University of Houston, Future Studies program.

Natasha is a proponent human rights and ethical means for human enhancement, and is published in Artifact, Technoetic Arts, Nanotechnology Perceptions, Annual Workshop on Geoethical Nanotechnology, Death And Anti- Death. She has a bi-monthly column in Nanotechnology Now, is a Guest Editor of The Global Spiral academic journal and on the Editorial Board of International Journal of Green Nanotechnology. Natasha authored Create / Recreate: the 3rd Millennial Culture on the emerging cybernetic culture and the future of humanism and the arts and sciences. She co-authored One on One Fitness, a guide to nutrition and aerobic and anaerobic exercise for women. Her new book The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Look at Philosophy and Technology is scheduled for publishing in 2012 through Wiley-Blackwell.

Natasha is Chair of Humanity+, international non-profit 501c3 organization and was the former president of Extropy Institute, networking organization Natasha continues to work with academic institutions, non-profit organizations and business about human futures. She is a track advisor at the Singularity University, on the Scientific Board of Lifeboat Foundation, a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Visiting Scholar at 21st Century Medicine, and advises non-profit organizations including Adaptive A.I. and Alcor Life Extension Foundation. She has been a consultant to IBM on the future of human performance.

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Dark Roasted Blend: Category: Futurism

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Quintessential Space Pulp Art by Ron Turner and others

Is it a dream, or a nightmare?

Dramatic Rescues, Aliens and the Apocalypse

Damsels in distress, all over the time and space

Floating laps of luxury, and more!

Part of our Futurism category, an essential overview

H.G. Wells & Jules Verne would approve

Russian, Italian and British Pulp SF Art

Share your life with a bunch of cute Japanese toy robots!

Making you hate your current family car since 1951

Plus super-fantastic toys attack!

Gentlemen! Forward - Into the Past!

From RetroFuture to Algorithmic Architecture

Giant Robot Structures Around the World... Standing... Waiting...

Atoms in the Air, on Wheels, Rails, etc.

Futuristic shapes, Greyhound-style

Part 2 of the highly popular series

The greatest invention that never was

Glamour and Stupendous Size, All-in-One

Love, Peace, and - Metropolis

Rare, gorgeous futuristic space art from unlikely sources

Alluring steel-plated companions

The craziest vehicle ideas you ever likely to see

Past, Present and Retro-future

Vintage Space Travel Posters, and more.

NASA's most radical killer asteroid defense

Overview of the Pulp SciFi Art

Soviet Unique Glass Holders, and more

Grand dream realized

Not just really big cities... Cities the size of mountains

Every kind, except the yellow ones

These forms cry out "FUTURE!" in a way that cannot be ignored.

Love them, or hate them, there is no middle ground

Black-and-white rare series of images

Modern Italian Design + RetroFuturism Style

Extreme Dirigibles for the modern age

Not your average Jetsons flying car

When living in mega-cities was considered a privilege

Part 1: rare vintage space graphics

Would you ditch your car for one of these systems?

Exciting Innovations in Transportation

Exciting Innovations in Transportation

Sky Captain's dream come true

The DIY guide for the discerning nerd

High-Speed Train Visions & Prototypes

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