Transvision
2003 Panel
SUNDAY June 29, 2003
9:00-10:30am
Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 62
High St., New Haven CT
The Future of the Body, Robots and the
Brain
Lanfranco
Aceti
Central Saint Martins
College of Art and Design
"Prosthesis'
Digital Aesthetic: The Integrated Technology of Human Extensions"
The
concepts of endotechnology and esotechnology, as described by
Baudrillard and Virilio, represent the transhuman body as an incongruous
cybernetic metastasis. But what if the categories used by these authors
to describe the cyber body are incongruous and imprecise?
Lanfranco
Aceti's research focuses on the avant-garde in fine art and digital
media. In his research endeavor he has analyzed how technology and cross
platform media are expressions of cutting edge creativity. He is working
on a theoretical structure for evolutionary media, which remodels the
philosophical and aesthetic approach to the human body. The human body,
therefore, is a medium: the world is not externalized but internalized.
In this context, cybernetic is an aesthetic tool which will redesign
humans according to new digital perceptions.
Anatoly
Nichvoloda
Associate, Internatura Think Tank
"System
Completion Theory: from Local to Global Consciousness-Humans, AI and
Beyond"
System
Completion Theory describes evolution and role of Human Consciousness
and conscious AI systems in the context of evolution of the Universe by
identifying them as a Converging (local) Consciousness en route to
Diverging (global) Consciousness.
Anatoly
Nichvoloda received his Master's degrees in Journalism and Philosophy
with minor in Psychology from Dnepropetrovsk State University, Ukraine
in 1996. Anatoly Nichvoloda received his Bachelor's Degree in
Marketing/Advertising from the University of Oklahoma, Norman in 2000.
In 1998 he joined "Internatura" think tank under the auspices
of St. Petersburg State University, Russia. The goals of this
organization include development of the systematic description of our
reality and role of Human Consciousness in it. Anatoly developed System
Completion Theory coauthoring it with professor Victor Tolkachev. This
theory lays out the structure of Human Consciousness, its role and
function in the Universe. Theory suggests that main organizational and
functioning principles of Human Consciousness will serve as the
foundation for future AI systems. Anatoly Nichvoloda is currently a PhD
student and a contributing writer/speaker to "Internatura"
think tank. In December 2002 Anatoly joined New York Transhumanism
Association and has been an active participant and a presenter.
