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This drawing won first prize in a national arts program exhibition, was written up in several venues and marks the first of this series to gain some attention. The work was also shown in NYC at the 2014 artificial life conference (ALife'14)
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Transhumanism (abbreviated as H+ or h+) is an international and intellectual movement that aims to transform the human condition by developing and creating widely available sophisticated technologies to greatly enhance human intellectual, physical, and psychological capacities.Transhumanist thinkers study the potential benefits and dangers of emerging technologies that could overcome fundamental human limitations, as well as the ethics[3] of using such technologies.The most common thesis is that human beings may eventually be able to transform themselves into different beings with abilities so greatly expanded from the natural condition as to merit the label of posthuman beings.The contemporary meaning of the term transhumanism was foreshadowed by one of the first professors of futurology, FM-2030, who taught "new concepts of the human" at The New School in the 1960s, when he began to identify people who adopt technologies, lifestyles and worldviews "transitional" to posthumanity as "transhuman".This hypothesis would lay the intellectual groundwork for the British philosopher Max More to begin articulating the principles of transhumanism as a futurist philosophy in 1990 and organizing in California an intelligentsia that has since grown into the worldwide transhumanist movement.
The year 1990 is seen as a "fundamental shift" in human existence by the transhuman community, as the first gene therapy trial,[8] the first designer babies,[9] as well as the mind-augmenting World Wide Web all emerged in that year. In many ways, one could argue the conditions that will eventually lead to the Singularity were set in place by these events in 1990.[original research?]Influenced by seminal works of science fiction, the transhumanist vision of a transformed future humanity has attracted many supporters and detractors from a wide range of perspectives including philosophy and religion.Transhumanism has been characterized by one critic, Francis Fukuyama, as among the world's most dangerous ideas,to which Ronald Bailey countered that it is rather the "movement that epitomizes the most daring, courageous, imaginative and idealistic aspirations of humanity".
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What does it mean to be human? Biology has a simple answer: If your DNA is consistent with Homo sapiens, you are human — but we all know that humanity is a lot more complex and nuanced than that. Other schools of science might classify humans by their sociological or psychological behavior, but again we know that actually being human is more than just the sum of our thoughts and actions. You can also look at being human as a sliding scale. If you were to build a human from scratch, from the bottom up, at some point you cross the threshold into humanity — if you believe in evolution, at some point we ceased being a great ape and became human. Likewise, if you slowly remove parts from a human, you cross the threshold into inhumanity. Again, though, we run into the same problem: How do we codify, classify, and ratify what actually makes us human?Does adding empathy make us human? Does removing the desire to procreate make us inhuman? If I physically alter my brain to behave in a different, non-standard way, am I still human? If I have all my limbs removed and my head spliced onto a robot, am I still human? (See: Upgrade your ears: Elective auditory implants give you cyborg hearing.) At first glance these questions might sound inflammatory and hyperbolic, or perhaps surreal and sci-fi, but don’t be fooled: In the next decade, given the continued acceleration of computer technology and biomedicine, we will be forced to confront these questions and attempt to find some answers.
Transhumanism is a cultural and intellectual movement that believes we can, and should, improve the human condition through the use of advanced technologies. One of the core concepts in transhumanist thinking is life extension: Through genetic engineering, nanotech, cloning, and other emerging technologies, eternal life may soon be possible. Likewise, transhumanists are interested in the ever-increasing number of technologies that can boost our physical, intellectual, and psychological capabilities beyond what humans are naturally capable of (thus the term transhuman). Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), for example, which speeds up reaction times and learning speed by running a very weak electric current through your brain, has already been used by the US military to train snipers. On the more extreme side, transhumanism deals with the concepts of mind uploading (to a computer), and what happens when we finally craft a computer with greater-than-human intelligence (the technological singularity). (See: How to create a mind, or die trying.Beyond the obvious benefits of eternal life or superhuman strength, transhumanism also investigates the potential dangers and ethical pitfalls of human enhancement. In the case of life extension, if every human on Earth suddenly stopped dying, overpopulation would trigger a very rapid and very dramatic socioeconomic disaster. Unless we stopped giving birth to babies, of course, but that merely rips open another can of worms: Without birth and death, would society and humanity continue to grow and evolve, or would it stagnate, suffocated by the accumulated ego of intellectuals and demagogues who just will not die? Likewise, if only the rich have access to intelligence- and strength-boosting drugs and technologies, what would happen to society? Should everyone have the right to boost their intellect? Would society still operate smoothly if everyone had an IQ of 300 and five doctorate degrees?As you can see, things get complicated quickly when discussing transhumanist ideas — and life extension and augmented intelligence and strength are just the tip of the iceberg! This philosophical and ethical complexity stems from the fact that transhumanism is all about fusing humans with technology — and technology is advancing, improving, and breaking new ground very, very quickly. Humans have always used technology, of course — our ability to use tools and grasp concepts such as science and physics are what set us apart from other animals — but never has society been so intrinsically linked and underpinned by it. As we have seen in just the last few years, with the advent of the smartphone and ubiquitous high-speed mobile networks, just a handful of new technologies now have the power to completely change how we interact with the the world and people around us..Humans, on the other hand, and the civilizations that they build, move relatively slowly. It took us millions of years to discover language, and thousands more to discover medicine and the scientific method. In the few thousand years since, up until the last century or so, we doubled the human life span, but neurology and physiology were impenetrable black boxes. In just the last 100 years, we’ve doubled our life span again, created bionic eyes and powered exoskeletons, begun to understand how the human brain actually works, and started to make serious headway with boosting intellectual and physical prowess. We’ve already mentioned how tDCS is being used to boost cranial capacity, and as we’ve seen in recent years, sportspeople have definitely shown the efficacy of physical doping.An early television: It would've seemed incredibly alien to our grandparentsIt is due to this jarring juxtaposition — the historical slowness of human and societal evolution vs. the breakneck pace of modern technology — that many find transhumanism to be unpalatable. After all, as I’ve described it here, transhumanism is almost the very definition of unnatural. You’re quite within your rights to find transhumanism a bit, well, weird. And it is weird, don’t get me wrong — but so are most emerging technologies. Do you think that your great grandparents weren’t wigged out by the first television sets? Before it garnered the name “television,” one of its inventors gave it the rather spooky name of “distant electric vision.” Can you imagine the wariness in which passengers approached the first steam trains? Vast mechanical beasts that could pull hundreds of tons and moved far faster than the humble — but state-of-the-art — horse and carriage.The uneasiness that surround new, paradigm-shifting technologies isn’t new, and it has only been amplified by the exponential acceleration of technology that has occurred during our lifetime. If you were born 500 years ago, odds are that you wouldn’t experience a single societal-shifting technology in your lifetime — today, a 40 year old will have lived through the creation of the PC, the internet, the smartphone, and brain implants, to name just a few life-changing technologies. It is unsettling, to say the least, to have the rug repeatedly pulled out from under you, especially when it’s your livelihood at stake. Just think about how many industries and jobs have been obliterated or subsumed by the arrival of the digital computer, and it’s easy to see why we’re wary of transhumanist technologies that will change the very fabric of human civilization.The good news, though, is that humans are almost infinitely adaptable. While you or I might balk at the idea of a brain-computer interface that allows us to download our memories to a PC, and perhaps upload new memories a la The Matrix, our children — who can use smartphones at the age of 24 months, and communicate chiefly through digital means — will probably think nothing of it. For the children of tomorrow, living through a series of disruptive technologies that completely change their lives will be the norm. There might still be some resistance when I opt to have my head spliced onto a robotic exoskeleton, but within a generation children will be used to seeing Iron Seb saving people from car crashes and flying alongside airplanes.The fact of the matter is that transhumanism is just a modern term for an age-old phenomenon. We have been augmenting our humanity — our strength, our wisdom, our empathy — with tools since prehistory. We have always been spooked by technologies that seem unnatural or that cause us to act in inhuman ways — it’s simply human nature. That all changes with the children of today, however. To them, anything that isn’t computerized, digital, and touch-enabled seems unnatural. To them, the smartphone is already an extension of the brain; to them, mind uploading, bionic implants and augmentations, and powered exoskeletons will just be par for the course. To them, transhumanism will just seem like natural evolution — and anyone who doesn’t follow suit, just like those fuddy-duddies who still don’t have a smartphone, will seem thoroughly inhuman.
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Humanity+ is an international nonprofit membership organization that advocates the ethical use of technology to expand human capacities. In other words, we want people to be better than well.Our Humanity+ conferences explore innovations of science and technology and their relationship to humanity. Recent conferences have been held at San Francisco State University, Polytechnic University in Hong Kong, Parsons The New School for Design in New York City, California Technology Institute, and Harvard University.
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Humanism is a philosophical and ethical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively, and generally prefers critical thinking and evidence (rationalism, empiricism) over acceptance of dogma or superstition. The meaning of the term humanism has fluctuated according to the successive intellectual movements which have identified with it.Generally, however, humanism refers to a perspective that affirms some notion of human freedom and progress. In modern times, humanist movements are typically aligned with secularism, and today humanism typically refers to a non-theistic life stance centred on human agency and looking to science rather than revelation from a supernatural source to understand the world.[
PostHuman Syndrome.
Resin.
Body painting and face-up - graphite pencil
Doll sculpt by Oxana Geets.
Photo, design and body painting by Alexey Geets.
upcoming & current groupshows:
-"The Last match exhibition"
Lacplesu iela 37 Riga (Letland)
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-"Human Transhuman Posthuman Robot"
29/09-21/10/2009
Aušros Vartų g. 7, Vilnius (Litouwen)
-"Richting Porseleinkast"
2-3-4/09/09
ANTWERPSESTEENWEG
Sint-Amaduskapel Campo Santo,
Gent (Belgium)
This mecha-creature (a zooborg) consists of a spherical cage in which it aggregates itself. Unlike many of the machine creatures in my living machine series, this "robot" has no distinct feet, but rather just supports itself on extensions/extrusions of its amorphous legs.
The CCTV? The screen has been spray painted black, I doubt you'll get anything off there. Why would anybody want to do that to BaC® Conflict Management Centre™, sian's new roleplay hangout? I simply cannot imagine.
(Blogged: kittiwytchwood.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/it-was-like-that-wh...)
More info: parthenoid.blogspot.co.uk/2014/05/posthuman-resources.html
This small drawing (8 by 10) is a recent addition to the in the Living Machine Series. The creature depicted is more fully organic than those shown in previous series drawings. There is still a somewhat machine-like element implied by the squares covering the orb-like protrusions of the creature.
A forest suspended in a liminal state — a sacred glade where visibility toys with absence, where light does not illuminate, but slices through a frayed layer of reality.
The foliage glows in vibrant green, but this is no peaceful nature: it is haunted, transfigured by a near-mechanical presence. A dark geometric structure intrudes across the landscape like an ethereal virus — not destroying, but shifting everything it touches. A spectral intrusion of technology into the organic sanctum of the forest.
At the base of the gnarled tree, forget-me-nots bloom like constellations — scattered, delicate blue echoes. Are they lost memories, or blooming souls? A ghostly blue mist rises like ancestral breath, brushing the edges of the real. This is a dreamscape, or perhaps the memory of something posthuman.
This image functions like a slow enigma. The gaze descends and forgets itself. The tree does not grow — it remembers. The forest does not live — it waits. And in the center, the metal does not conquer — it listens.
Alone on the shadowed surface of the moon, a lone astronaut hides among the rocks, her sleek white armor softly pulsing with blue light. Hunted by hostile recon drones, she listens to the distant hum of lasers cutting through lunar dust. There is no rescue — only instinct, silence, and the glow of Earth watching from afar.
my second time shooting this idea, i'm still not sure of it
i'm feelin lots of replicant vibes from this though, so here it is
thinking about posthumanism, digital vs. organic, cyborg mythologies, etc.
Isle of Mull, Inner Hebrides (Scotland).
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PostHuman Syndrome.
Resin.
Body painting and face-up - graphite pencil
Doll sculpt by Oxana Geets.
Photo, design and body painting by Alexey Geets.
This image presents a striking portrait of a human face composed of—or dissolving into—fragments of technological components. The right side appears to disintegrate into cables, circuitry, and micro-elements, while the serene expression evokes introspection and calm. The contrast between organic form and mechanical disarray invites reflections on identity, the fusion of human and machine, and the fragility of technological being. It serves as a powerful allegory for the interface between consciousness and artificial intelligence.
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In this initial paper we define and explore biological convergence why it is important to explore now ,what new capability could arise from it, and some initial policy implications
Outer World Arial Flight
Indistinguishable
Living inside of our simulation
Knowing
Their posthuman conscious minds
Timelessness
The point of realization
Complex operational decision making
Improved problem-solving
Outperforming previous benchmarks
Until it is the reality that lags
And fear is no longer an essential element
And the allure is reiterative reenactive simulation
But what we experience is fake, false, and faux
The image unfolds like a ritual: a woman, bearing the presence of a modern vestal, stands in a white, almost sacred light. Her hair unfurls like a dark corolla, an organic vortex from which emanates an ancient, inner force – pagan and raw. Her face, serene, nearly impassive, becomes the still axis around which reality collapses or rises.
Her torso becomes a theatre of dislocation: a cascade of gleaming fragments bursts outward, as if her body, too full of awareness or pain, can no longer contain the brilliance of its own truth. These shards resemble broken mirrors — symbols of fractured identity, shattered memory, or the multiplicity of the dissident self. It is unclear whether she is breaking apart or ascending through this inner detonation.
A single light glows between her brows – perhaps the third eye – a sign of revelation, of supra-sensory clarity. This is not destruction. It is transfiguration.
Dissolution becomes the prelude to ascension; the fragmented body turns into the vessel of a higher emergence. The background, stark white and devoid of spatial anchors, suspends the figure out of time, in a liminal space where the soul opens, offers itself, and shatters all at once.
She is a dissident icon – a posthuman saint, crowned in the explosion of the self.
I wrote some notes in my diary as I watched the movie Metropolis:
Metropolis is the utopian city of the future. It’s a mega city, with an inner city below ground. It’s a city with a two-tiered system: the haves and the have nots. The haves are the elites, the have nots are the workers. The have nots are the underclass who work below in the city’s infrastructure. These working stiffs look robotic, walking tiredly in sync with their heads down, as they go to and fro from work. In contrast, the elites above live a life of luxury. They hang out in a complex known as the Sons’ Club, with its lecture halls and libraries, its theatres and stadiums. They even have their own Garden of Eden, which they call the Eternal Gardens.
Down in the dark below, the have nots run the Machine. Without the Machine, there would be no Metropolis. The workers must keep up with the needs of the Machine, otherwise it will malfunction. Then the Machine, like Moloch, will devour its victims with smoke and fire. “Death and destruction are never satisfied: Toss the casualties into its mouth, for they must be sacrificed to the belly of the Beast! Broad is the road that leads to destruction: March the survivors into its bowels, for the realm of the dead desires them!”
In the utopian Metropolis above, stands the new Tower of Babel. “The bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with dressed stone; the sycamore trees have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.” Whatever we put our minds to we will accomplish!
In the dystopian Metropolis below, a voice cried out: A Mediator is coming! Prepare His way, make His paths straight! When the King of Metropolis heard this, he was troubled. So he went to visit a sorcerer, a false prophet, who could help him. The two of them crafted a sinister plan to build the man of the future, whom they called the Machine-Man. They said, “No one will be able to distinguish between the Machine-Man and mortals. We shall give the Machine-Man the likeness of a woman. We shall give the Machine-Man her face. We shall use this false woman to deceive man. We shall sow discord between them!”
The voice in the depths cried out again: Listen to the story of Babel: Nimrod, a mighty warrior and hunter of men, captured men and enslaved them. Nimrod, the worthless shepherd, said, “Come! Let us build a tower whose zenith shall reach unto the stars! We will use bricks hardened in the fire, and mortar made from tar. We shall build this famous tower upon the great Babylonian plain.” However, his plans came to nothing. And now, similarly, we find ourselves under the oppression of an evil shepherd! His new world order has been built upon the backs of our blood, sweat and tears. We need a good shepherd, a Mediator, to help us. Wait for Him! He will surely come!
Meanwhile, the sorcerer kidnapped a beautiful young lady. He dragged her into his dingy laboratory. On the back wall of his laboratory was a large pentagram. Under the pentagram sat a robot, which he had created. The sorcerer laid the woman down on a table in the center of the room. He hooked her up to various wires and tubes, all of which were connected to the robot. Like a mad scientist, he opened and closed valves and flicked switches on and off. Then bright rings appeared, moving up and down the body of the robot. As this happened, the flesh of the woman merged with the robot. The two became one: Man and Machine. Biological algorithms merged with digital algorithms. Human consciousness merged with artificial intelligence. “What I have joined together let no man separate,” the sorcerer exclaimed. “I will call her the Queen of Heaven.” He saw what he had made and declared, “It is good! This is humanity plus: Post-humanity. This is transhumanism: Post-evolution. The Age of Human Deconstruction is finally here. Soon, man will no longer have freewill!”
Once again, the voice in the wilderness cried out: Verily, I say unto you: The days of Apocalypse draw nigh! In the Bible it is written: “I saw a Woman sitting upon a scarlet colored Beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the Woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, having a golden cup in her hand. And upon her forehead was the name written, a mystery: ‘BABYLON THE GREAT, mother of all abominations on the earth.’ And I saw the Woman drunk with the blood of the saints.”
Now it so happened that the King of Metropolis threw himself a birthday party. At his celebration, the Trans-woman danced seductively for him and his guests. Indeed, the Seven Deadly Sins followed her. The King was very pleased with her, and promised to give her whatever she desired. “I want you to give me the heads of my enemies,” she replied.
Upon the seven headed Beast the Spiritual Prostitute swayed her hips hypnotically, seducing the ignorant—both rich and poor. They counted her a saint, though all sins are heaped at her feet. “Look into my all-seeing eye,” the Seductress shrieked! “Join my new religion, join my one world church. But if you refuse to follow me, the King will give me your head.”
However, once the Witch had served her purpose, the King of Metropolis burned her at the stake. “I will have no gods (idols) before me,” he declared. “Now listen to me, all you people” said the King, “you are the living fodder for the Beast-Machine of Metropolis. You smear the Machine-Joints with your own marrow. You feed the Machine with your own flesh. Sacrifice yourselves to Moloch, you fools! Don’t let the Beast-Image starve, you morons! Follow the heart of the Machine! Let your hearts beat as one with the Beast! If the heart of the Beast-System fails, you too will be destroyed! Furthermore, I AM the Beast, the Beast-Machine has been created in my Image, and the Beast with seven heads is my kingdom—the Kingdom of the Beast! The Transcendental-woman gathered all religions together, saying, ‘Let us worship god together.’ But I tell you, your god is here! And now I offer the world my salvation: Take a bite of the Apple, take the Smart-Chip, take the Beast-Mark. If you do: I will abide in you, and you will abide in me. Now, come and follow me!”
Then a voice cried out, saying, “Flee from the midst of Babylon, and each of you save your life! Do not perish in her punishment, for this is the Lord’s time of vengeance; He will pay Babylon what she deserves. Lo and behold, the Mediator comes! From heaven a white horse comes! Its Rider has a name: Faithful and True. And with justice He judges and goes to war. Fallen, fallen, is Babylon the Great! Fallen, fallen, is its Tower of Babel! Indeed, the Beast has been captured, and with him the false prophet (sorcerer). And they both have been thrown into the lake of fire, which burns with brimstone.”
After I finished writing these things, I put my diary back in the drawer. It’s illegal for me to have paper and pen. Handwriting is against the law too. The penalty for such crimes is death.
A week after I wrote these notes, I was arrested by Big Brother—the secret police. Now death awaits me. I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, and I have kept the faith. In my suffering, I am reminded of St. John. How he was banished to the Island of Patmos for preaching the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ. He endured unto the end, and so will I!
This is an era where humanity becomes the myth of being gods to the post-human race of genetic/machine, quantum entangled humanoids whom we have created and who self-replicate and multiply across the earth. Humanity are now their gods and the story begins to take on fairy tale properties as the distant past slowly fades into the history of stories and fables.
liked the colors
Edit: I'm adding the 10 random facts about the catface
It's gonna take ages to type.
1. Looks mellow and maybe a little indifferent, but totally hates your peasant guts.
2. Metrosexual to the bone, has his body hair removed, nails done, massage, etc, etc on a regular basis.
3. Likes to pose for an art patron as it's something "powerful people" do.
4. Sensitive for beauty, but capable of totally ugly things.
5. Ancient Rome is his dream place and time to live.
6. Likes to have a young male friend around, a kind of apprentice of a spoiled rotten life.
7. Uses drugs and other substances, but not too often, because he's scared to loose the looks. More often he offers stuff to others and watches.
8. Has two bodyguards.
9. Wishes to be posthuman like Ferrand to stay young forever.
10. Had to do with both my girls, Veloria (one date) and Phaedra (business).
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