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" We are transhumanists.
Our art integrates the most eminent progression of creativity and sensibility merged by discovery.
I am the architect of my existence. My art reflects my vision and represents my values. It conveys the very essence of my being—coalescing imagination and insight, challenging all limits.
We are exploring how current and future technologies affect our senses, our cognition and our lives. Our attention to these relationships become fields of art as we participate in the most immediate and vital issues for transhumanity—extending life, augmenting intelligence and creativity, exploring the universe.
Artists, as communicators, bring together the passions, the dreams and the hopes of transhumanity and express these emotions in ways that touch us deeply. Extropic Arts reflects an appreciation of aesthetics in a technologically enhanced world.
We are voices of transhumanity. Our voices are a synthesis, rhythm and exploration of imagination.
The Extropic Art Movement regards art as more than an artifact. Art influences social and cultural change: how we live and who we are. It creates a sense of self, art as being, autonomous yet connected to culture¡¯s continuum. How we accomplish our intentions is a matter of selective individual choice— whether abstract or representational, whether artifact or conceptual. Our criteria for art remain open and we welcome cross-disciplinary innovations.
As we move into the 21st Century, Extropic Art will suffuse the universe around us. Our unique ingenuity will spread far out into the capillaries of our culture. We are active participants in our own evolution from human to posthuman. We are shaping the image—the design and the essence—of what we are becoming."
Natasha Vita-More
Written January 1st, 1997.
Transhumanist Arts Statement(written 1982, revised 1999/2002)
"Transhumanist Arts represent the aesthetic and creative culture of transhumanity.
Transhumanist Artists are developing new and varied modes of art.
Our aesthetics and expressions are merging with science and technology in designing increased sensory experiences.
Transhumanist Artists want to extend life and overcome death.
We plan to do so with vitality and amplified creativity.
Emotions are integral to sensing and understanding life. We exercise a transhumanist ecology of self-awareness and self-responsibility.
If our art represents who we are, then let us choose to be transhumanist not only in our bodies, but also in our values.
The Transhumanist Arts embrace the creative innovations of transhumanity.
We are ardent activists in pursuing infinite transformation, overcoming death and exploring the universe.
As Transhumanist Art comes into focus, as the tools and ideas of our art continue to evolve, so too shall we."
Natasha Vita-More
Written 1982. Revised 1999.
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By 1990 Transhumanist Arts had become an arts period reflecting the timeframe of transhumanity—the global transhumanist culture. By the late 1990s, Transhumanist Arts was recognized as an art period and an organization for artistic and innovative thinkers worldwide.
Extropic Arts, a genre of Transhumanist Arts, is primarily a movement influenced by the current state of events of transhumanity. The word "extropic" stems from the idea that things are forever expanding and improving. Extropic Art is characterized by the mediums of contemporary trends in design. It's styles reflect a positive outlook while coming face to face with the current themes and issues of society.