WFS AZ August Meeting

This Month's Topic: Transhumanism

Featured Speaker: Natasha Vita-More

I am pleased to announce that Natasha Vita-More will speak at this month's meeting on Transhumanism.

If you're unfamiliar with Natasha's work, here's her bio:

Natasha Vita-More, PhD is a designer and author whose research concerns the technological design of human enhancement. Wired magazine called Natasha an "early adopter of revolutionary ideas" and Village Voice claimed she is "a role model for superlongevity".

Having been published in numerous academic journals, such as Metaverse Creativity and Technoetic Arts - A Journal of speculative Research, New Realities: Being Syncretic, Beyond Darwin, and D’ARS. Vita-More is also a contributing author to chapters of the books AI Society, Anticipating 2025, Intelligence Unbound. Her own book (below) is published by the renown Wiley Blackwell Publishing.

Vita-More received Special Recognition at Women in Video and has exhibited at the London Contemporary Art Museum, Niet Normaal, and the Moscow Film Festival. She is most known for having designed the pioneering whole body prototype known as “Platform Diverse Body" (f/k/a Primo Posthuman) and the networked identity “Substrate Autonomous Identity”. With a background as a fine artist, videographer, and bioartist, her work evolved into the field of design in linking transdisciplinary of multi-media design, science, and technology. Her current work includes scientific research on memory of C. elegans nematode after vitrification.

Vita-More is co-editor and contributing author of The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Future Human.

Featured in LAWeekly, The New York Times, and U.S. News & World Report, Vita-More has appeared in over two dozen televised documentaries on the future, including PBS, BBC, TLC, ABC, NBC, and CBS.

Dr. Vita-More is a professor at the University of Advancing Technology, Chairman of Humanity+, and a Fellow at Institute for Ethics & Emerging Technologies.

This is going to be an excellent meeting, so I look forward to seeing everyone there.