iPhone of iDeath?

Lezingenprogramma op GOGBOT Festival over spanningsveld tussen mens en techniek.

11 Sep 2010

SINGULARITY at GOGBOT shows how artists, scientists and designers are working with this controversial concept. Do they consider the Singularity as a threat, a warning, as overrated phenomena, or as an endless possibility to enrich our world, to perfection our bodies and let men and machine merge into a new future…Does Singularity lead to a utopia, a nightmare, or is there nothing to worry about?

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Babyphone / 2008 / Koert van Mensvoort - bron

Speakers:

Natasha Vita-More

Natasha Vita-More, PhD researcher, is a media artist and theorist. She is a pioneer of transhumanism and spokesperson for human rights and life prolongation. She designed the “Primo Posthuman”, a future human prototype mixing nanotech, biotech, Infotech and cognitive/neuro sciences for human enhancement.

Dave Blank

Prof Dave Blank is director of MESA+, Institute for Nanotech, University of Twente.

Koert van Mensvoort

Artist, scientist, philosopher, inventor, talks about his Next Nature projects and relates to the concept of Singularity.

Arjen Kamphuis

Kamphuis is futurist, scientist and advisor for open source standards in the public domain.

Eric Joris

Joris develops live-art theater projects in collaboration with a collective of artists and scientists. New technology forms the basis of a unique way of thinking and the engine for aesthetic, immersive experiences.

Josephine Bosma

Moderator for GOGBOT, artist, net-art critic, author.