Natasha Vita-More

Natasha Vita-More is a strategic designer, author, speaker and innovator within the scientific and technological framework of human enhancement and life extension. Her interests are located within the ethical uses of science and technology and socio-political implications of revolutionary advances impacting humanity's future.[1][2][3]

Natasha Vita-More
EducationPhD in Media Art and Design
OccupationStrategic designer, Author
Known forPrimo Posthuman, Transhumanist
Spouse(s)Max More

Early life and education

Vita-More was born in Bronxville, New York. Vita-More studied at Accademia di Belle Arti in Ravenna, Italy (1977) after graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Art (1973). Returning to the United States, she started a commercial design firm in Telluride, Colorado (1972-1980). She completed Paralegal Certification from Blackstone School of Law in 1992. She earned a Master of Science in Future Studies at the University of Houston (2006) and a Master of Philosophy from University of Plymouth, UK. Faculty of Technology, School of Computers, Communications and Electronics, School of Communications and Media Studies M.Phil., Thesis: "Designing Transitional Human Futures”. Vita-More received a Ph.D in Media Art and Design from the Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom. Her Ph.D thesis focused on human enhancement and radical life extension.[4][5]

Career

Vita-More is currently Executive Director of Humanity+ Inc. and founded H+ Lab.[6] From 2012 – 2014 she was a visiting Scholar, 21st Century Medicine.[7] Since 2012, she has been an instructor at the for-profit University of Advancing Technology, former Chair of its Graduate Program, an advisor to Singularity University and consultant to IBM on the future of human performance.[8] She is also a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies[9] and on the Steering Committee of Coalition for Radical Life Extension. Her research discusses the social and ethical issues resulting from emerging technologies of artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology. She has contributed to numerous international projects, including Abandon Normal Devices festival, and the Sport Accord Convention of 2013, the TOPOS World Wise Web Initiative 2014, Cambridge Union Immortality Debate of 2017.[10][11]

Vita-More has been an advisor to the LifeBoat Foundation,[12] a non-profit organization and from 2002 to 2006, a former Senior Associate at the Foresight Institute, an advisor to Alcor Life Extension Foundation, and an Outreach Director of The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence. Between 1987 and 1993 she was a producer of Transcentury Update.[13] Between 2001 and 2004, she was the president of the Extropy Institute.[14]

Vita-More is also signed up for cryonic preservation. Moreover, Vita-More says, "Our bodies will be the next fashion statement; we will design them in all sorts of interesting combinations of texture, colors, tones, and luminosity."[15][16]

Work

In 1982, Vita-More wrote the Transhumanist Manifesto, which was on board the Cassini-Huygens Saturn mission.[17] It discussed the possibility for overcoming disease and extending lifespans and later she founded an organization Transhumanist Arts and Culture.[18][19]

In 1997 she designed the first whole-body prosthetic, entitled Primo Posthuman, which depicted how a human might look in the future with technological enhancements such as color-changing skin.[20] "Posthumans", as written by Vita-More in one of her academic papers, "will be almost entirely augmented — human minds in artificial, eternally upgradable bodies".[3] Her art has been exhibited at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Russia, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art,[21] and the Telluride Film Festival.[22]

She authored Create / Recreate: the 3rd Millennial Culture on the emerging cybernetic culture and the future of humanism and the arts and sciences.[23] She is also author of Transhumanism: What is it? concerning the basic questions of the Transhumanist philosophical, ethical and cultural worldview.

She is the co-editor and contributing author of The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future.[24]

Her project "Primo 3M+ 2001" future physique 3D design for superlongevity in a tongue-in-cheek is based on nanotechnology and AI.[25]

In 2014 she was the entrepreneur and scientific Lead, together with Daniel Barranco from the Department of Cryobiology of the Spanish University of Seville, for the first time, proved that the use of cryonic technologies does not destroy the long-term memory of the simplest multi-cellular organisms.[26]

In 2019, Aging Analytics named Vita-More one of the Top-50 Women Longevity Leaders.[27]

Personal life

Vita-More was born in Bronxville, New York. As of 2020, she lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.[28]

See also

References
  1. http://helldesign.net. "Radical body design "Primo Posthuman" | Kurzweil". www.kurzweilai.net. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  2. "Cyborg Liberation Front". Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  3. Wilson, Cintra. "Droid Rage". Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  4. "CV" (PDF). Natasha Vita-More. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-05-01. Retrieved 2013-07-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. "Management - Humanity+". Humanity+. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  7. Hansell, Gregory R. (2011-01-25). H+/-: Transhumanism and Its Critics. Xlibris Corporation. ISBN 9781456815677.
  8. "Natasha Vita-More | Plymouth University - Academia.edu". plymouth.academia.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  9. "Natasha Vita-More". ieet.org. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  10. Eventbu.com. "Immortality Debate | Cambridge Union | event | Cambridge". Eventbu.com. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
  11. Church-Sanders, Rachael. "Minister for Sport and Tourism joins SportAccord". www.majoreventsinternational.com. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
  12. "Lifeboat Foundation Bios: Dr. Natasha Vita-More". lifeboat.com. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
  13. "Nanomedicine Art Gallery - Natasha Vita-More". foresight.org. Retrieved 2018-08-06.
  14. "Extropy Institute Resources". Archived from the original on 2011-02-25. Retrieved 2013-07-17.
  15. "Don't Die, Stay Pretty". WIRED. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
  16. Vice. "The Futurist Who Believes We Can Cheat Death - UNLIMITED by UBS". www.unlimited.world. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
  17. Ventura, Tim. "Natasha Vita-More on Transhumanism in Space" (PDF). American Gravity. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
  18. Boran, Marie. "In a future brave new world will it be possible to live forever?". The Irish Times. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  19. "the h i s t o r y".
  20. "The Posthuman Future". WNYC. New York Public Radio. Retrieved 19 April 2016.
  21. "Memphis Brooks Museum". Brooksmuseum.org. Retrieved 2010-10-30.
  22. "Telluride Film Festival". Telluride Film Festival. Retrieved 2010-10-30.
  23. "The Politics of Transhumanism 2.0". ieet.org. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
  24. The transhumanist reader : classical and contemporary essays on the science, technology, and philosophy of the human future. More, Max, 1964-, Vita-More, Natasha, 1950-. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell. 2013. ISBN 9781118555965. OCLC 829706585.CS1 maint: others (link)
  25. "Nanomedicine Art Gallery - Image 171". foresight.org. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
  26. Vita-More, Natasha; Barranco, Daniel (2015). "Persistence of Long-Term Memory in Vitrified and RevivedCaenorhabditis elegans". Rejuvenation Research. 18 (5): 458–463. doi:10.1089/rej.2014.1636. ISSN 1549-1684. PMC 4620520. PMID 25867710.
  27. "Top-50 Women Longevity Leaders" (PDF). Aging Analytics. p. 88. Retrieved June 21, 2019.
  28. http://www.natasha.cc/cv.pdf
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