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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.
www.extremetech.com/extreme/152240-what-is-transhumanism-...
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)
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 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.
Cyberpsychosis is a mental condition caused by cybernetic enhancements. Such augmentations fragment the human psyche. As transhumans begin relating more to Artificial Intelligence, they lose more autonomy. This dehumanization affects their mental health and results in violent outbursts. Eventually, they lose all their autonomy and become zombie-like.
Trance, trance, transhuman
Dance, dance, halfhuman
Trance, trance, transhuman
Dance, dance, posthuman
Trance, trance, transhuman
Dance, dance, nonhuman
Technotronic cyberpsychosis cybernetic modification
Mass formation cyberpsychosis cyberware abomination
Stockholm syndrome cyberpsychosis Beast Mark-chip annihilation
In the dystopian world of cyberpunk, the corporations operate like small nations. These megacorporations or Network states are economic trade zones in the New World Order archipelago. Their CEOs live like kings.
The most prosperous of these CEOs is a man nicknamed the Beast. He was awarded the position of CEO of the New World Order Cybercorporation. Therefore, the Beast is the king of the CEO kings.
The Beast introduces a one-world digital currency, which is tied to his transhuman 666–chip. This ushers in the new Dark Ages.
Revelation 17:12-13 “The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but who for one hour will receive authority as king along with the Beast. They have one purpose and will give their power and authority to the Beast.”
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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PostHuman Syndrome.
Resin.
Body painting and face-up - graphite pencil
Doll sculpt by Oxana Geets.
Photo, design and body painting by Alexey Geets.