Natasha Vita More

President, Extropy Institute

Natasha Vita-More is the president of the Extropy Institute. This institute is a networking ideas exchange devoted to developing strategies for the future. Extropy is a symbol for continued progress and reflects the extent of a living or organizational system's intelligence, functional order, vitality, and capacity and drive for improvement. Extropy is an essential element of transhumanism.

She is a member of the Association of Professional Futurists, founder of Transhumanist Arts & Culture, Honorary Vice-Chair of the World Transhumanist Association, Senior Associate with the Foresight Institute, and advisor to Alcor Life Extension Foundation. She authored the Extropic Art Manifesto, and is the author of Ageless Thinking: Creating Positive Transhuman Attitude. Her Primo Posthuman radical body design combines the aesthetic engineering of nanotechnology, AiS (artificial intelligent skin), IA (intelligence augmentation), and replaceable body parts that are upgraded, augmented and streamlined.

The themes of her art identify the cultural vanguard and epitomize changing values that bolster the spirit of our times. Presently her focus recognizes the ideological splits facing superlongevity, the aesthetics in our highly technological future, and their effects on culture. Her work has been exhibited at Brooks Memorial Museum, Telluride Film Festival, Women In Video, United States Film Festival, and London Contemporary Museum.

She earned her MS from the University of Houston Future Studies program, a BFA at University of Memphis and worked on her MA at Accademia Belle Arti, Italy. Currently she is a PhD candidate at University of Plymouth, England. She has been featured on BBC, Dateline, PBS, TLC, and Discovery, appeared on national talk shows, and was featured in the The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, Shift, Mean Magazine, LA Weekly, Harper's Bazaar, and Marie Claire.

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The Law of Intended Consequences: Designing Possible Futures