Natash Vita-More | Electro 2011, Human Enhancement
of Life Expansion
Bio
Natasha-More research focuses on life expansion, as a central tenet of transformative human enhancement. She has been featured in Wired, The New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, Net Business, Teleopolis, The Village Voice, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, and she has appeared in over twenty-four televised documentaries on the art/design, and the future of culture. She 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.
Natasha is co-editor of the forthcoming anthology, The Transhumanist Reader, and is published in Metaverse Creativity, 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. She 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, aerobics and anaerobics for women.
Natasha is Chairperson of the international Humanity+, which advocates the ethical use of technology to expand human capabilities; Fellow, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies; Visiting Scholar, 21st Century Medicine; and Policy, Advisor of Law & Ethics Track, Singularity University. She is a PhD Researcher, University of Plymouth, Faculty of Arts, School of Art and Media. She holds an MPhil, University of Plymouth, Faculty of Technology, School of Communications, Computers and Electronics; an MSc, University of Houston, Future Studies, Social Sciences and Humanities; a BFA, University of Memphis, Painting, Sculpture and Printmaking; was filmmaker-in-residence, University of Colorado; and holds Certificates in Nutrition and Sports Training, American Muscle & Fitness Association.