Introducing Art Chaosmos and our main research theme, transhumanism

1. Bringing the Future by Art
Introducing Art Chaosmos
and our main theme, Transhumanism
Mira Kwak
Art Chaosmos
KCC2015, 24 June 2015
Jeju National University, Korea

2. The artificial bird
from the fairy tale The Nightingale by Hans Andersen
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Enhanced humans and androids
from TV shows

4. Images from the film Ex Machina’s Instagram
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5. Viktoria Modesta,
a bionic artist
Pete Wentz,
a bassist
showing tattoos
David Bowie,
a musician
as his alter ego Ziggy Stardust
Caitlyn Jenner,
formerly known as Bruce Jenner
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6. What is Human?
Where is My Mind?
Who am I?
The Pixies
http://thefridgemedia.com/
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7. New Human
Human
Designer baby
Gene-edited human
Human
with fixed/modified body part
Born via artificial insemination Cyborg
Android
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8. New
Environment
Cisco
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Environment
and Human
Cognitive Environments depicted by IBM Research

9. Redefine human and humanity
Repel all kinds of discriminations
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10. Transhumanism
Physical Intellectual Psychological
Human capacities
Enhance
Super-longevity Super-intelligence Super-wellbeing
Fundamentally transforming human condition
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11. Arising Questions
• Evil AI
• Consciousness
• Emotion
• Mind uploading
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12. Old yet New Questions
• Mind-body problem
• Identity
• Humanity
• Death
• Human and nature
• Autonomy, subjective being of experiences
• Art activities involving software or robots
• Robot accidents
and responsibilities from a legal perspective
• Meaning of religion
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13. Related Concerns
• Environmental sustainability
• Basic income
• Syndicalism
• Digital currencies
• Egalitarianism
• Strategic future planning
• Maker movement
• Sharing economy
……
㈜에이팀벤처스 Creatable D2
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14. Earth Organisation
for Sustainability
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15. Super-longevity
Super-intelligence
Super-wellbeing
Not content enough
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16. Basilica of Assisi in Second Life
(Image courtesy of Giulio Prisco)
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The Turing Church
Cosmism

17. What Art Chaosmos Do
Understanding the world
Preparing the future
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Reductionism to Consilience
Broadly saying…

18. Art Chaosmos’s Experiments
• Metaverse
• Alter ego
• Identity
• Artificial intelligence application
• Emotion
• Consciousness
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19. Art Chaosmos’s Projects
Real-Virtual Meetup
Smart Show
Transpunk
Blog and Forum
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20. • Get ready to evolve
• Forget the idea
that the human is solely privileged
over the other
• Embrace the new human
and the new nature
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We Must

21. Check this out
• The Singularity is Near, book by Ray Kurzweil
• TechnoCalyps, documentary by Frank Theys
• IEET
• H+ Magazine
• Transcendence, Ex Machina
• Almost Human
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22. Mira Kwak
• mira@mirakwak.com
• http://mirakwak.com/
• http://mirakwak.tel/
Art Chaosmos
• http://artchaosmos.com/
• http://blog.transpunk.com/
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