{"id":7598,"date":"2017-11-19T06:51:58","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T06:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/?p=7598"},"modified":"2017-11-19T06:51:58","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T06:51:58","slug":"ustp-art-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2017\/11\/ustp-art-panel\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Transhumanist Party Discussion Panel on Art and Transhumanism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tophatwhitesm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tophatwhitesm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tophatwhitesm.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tophatwhitesm-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>G. Stolyarov II<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Emanuel Iral<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Rachel Lyn Edler<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>John Marlowe<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>R. Nicholas Starr<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Leah Montalto<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Kim Bodenhamer Smith<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Laura Katrin Weston<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #003366;\"><strong>Ekaterinya Vladinakova<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tLtYUTkbOdU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On November 18, 2017,\u00a0the U.S. Transhumanist Party invited leading artists in a variety of media and styles to a two-hour discussion, moderated by Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II and Director of Visual Art Emanuel Iral, on the subject of Art and Transhumanism, delving into how and which works of art can help inspire humans to pursue the next era of our civilization \u2013 through promoting the advancement of science and technology, rationality, and\/or a more hopeful vision of the future. The panel also explored various interactions between art and technology and ways in which art can improve human connection and understanding, while also comprising the very improved functionality that emerging technologies provide.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Art_and_Transhumanism_Panel_v2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7599\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Art_and_Transhumanism_Panel_v2-1024x853.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Art_and_Transhumanism_Panel_v2-1024x853.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Art_and_Transhumanism_Panel_v2-300x250.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Art_and_Transhumanism_Panel_v2-768x640.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Art_and_Transhumanism_Panel_v2-324x270.png 324w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Art_and_Transhumanism_Panel_v2-100x83.png 100w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/Art_and_Transhumanism_Panel_v2.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Panelists<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>Emanuel Iral<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Emanuel Iral is Director of Visual Art for the U.S. Transhumanist Party.<\/p>\n<p>Emanuel\u2019s artwork ranges from traditional paint and pencil work to 3D digital work. Currently he is working on his VFX and animation skills, as he is producing short films for his music. He\u00a0encompasses his art under the term Prismatis \u2013 Latin for prism.\u00a0 A prism\u00a0refracts white light into the three primary colors: yellow, magenta, and cyan. Prismatis is all about the aesthetic of human expression, which can be separated into the art, audience, and artist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rachel Lyn Edler<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>RachelLyn Edler is an accomplished graphic designer with over 20 years of creative experience. Rachel comes from a diverse background of product development, packaging and web design.\u00a0In her free time she volunteers for several scientific and secular organizations including the Planetary Society, Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason &amp; Science and the Secular Coalition for America.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Marlowe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>John Marlowe was educated in film theory and trained in film production at UC Berkeley.\u00a0 His outlook on film as a vehicle for social messaging has been largely influenced by his lifelong struggle with a genetic inborn error of metabolism, a type of disease that \u2013 until recently \u2013 was beyond the scope of medicine.\u00a0 Consequently, John feels it is his onus to emphasize the artist\u2019s responsibility in shaping the conversation regarding medical research, to create a society more amenable to scientific progress, rather than one fearful of change.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leah Montalto<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leah Montalto is a painter based in New York City and has maintained a successfully operating painting studio in New York for the past 12 years.\u00a0 Her paintings have been exhibited at the National Academy Museum of Fine Art in New York, and have been reviewed in the New York Times and the Providence Journal.\u00a0 Leah\u2019s paintings have received awards including the National Academy Museum of Fine Art\u2019s Hallgarten Prize in Painting and the NYC Cultural Commission arts grant.\u00a0 Leah is a former professor at Sarah Lawrence College, and has an MFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design.\u00a0 Leah is not affiliated with the Transhumanist Party, but her paintings explore related themes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kim Bodenhamer Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kim Bodenhamer Smith is a single mother of two boys living in Chattanooga, TN. She is a founding member of Southside Abbey, a Lay Missioner in The Episcopal Church, and an Outdoor Wear Business owner of Chilliheads. She is a caver, unicycler, and an aviation enthusiast and creator of #helichurch. She has a BFA in Metals and also studied Graphic Design and Political Science. *She also has many Tesla Tales to tell and is a Social Media Manipulator (different from a troll)!<\/p>\n<p><strong>R. Nicholas Starr<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>R. Nicholas Starr is an audio engineer and multimedia artist whose\u00a0work focuses on Earth\u2019s dystopias of past, present, and future. Also a\u00a0biohacker, researcher, and theorist, he immerses himself in the\u00a0subjects surrounding these worlds and has published several\u00a0non-fiction articles and interviews. With an education in electronic\u00a0signals intelligence from the United States Air Force, and 15 years of\u00a0digital art and audio production in the US and abroad, he has become a\u00a0unique voice for science fiction, the U.S. Transhumanist Movement, and\u00a0American policy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ekaterinya Vladinakova<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ekaterinya Vladinakova is an accomplished digital painter and professional freelance illustrator. Vladinakova specializes in fantasy and science fiction work, but is also interested in editorial illustration. Vladinakova spends most of the day painting in Photoshop, creating scenes related to fantasy, or science fiction, as well as brushing up older works. Vladinakova\u2019s paintings have been featured by the U.S. Transhumanist Party \u2013 including the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/transhumanist-party.org\/2017\/06\/29\/city-of-new-antideath\/\">City of New Antideath<\/a>\u201d \u2013 a vision of the future which was commissioned for Mr. Stolyarov\u2019s 30<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Birthday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Laura Katrin Weston<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dr Laura Katrin Weston is from England and studied Fine Art before going on to studying Medicine. She is a trained pathologist with a specialism in medical biochemistry and inflammation-related disease. She has used her medical knowledge and professional painting career to support Lifespan.io \u2013 one of the biggest life-extension research and advocacy charities. Laura is also vocalist for symphonic metal band Cyclocosmia \u2013 a music act that will be trying to raise awareness of transhumanist and human mortality issues in their next upcoming album.<\/p>\n<p>The YouTube question\/comment chat for this Q&amp;A session has been archived\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/transhumanist-party.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/USTP_QA_Chat_10-21-2017.png\">here<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and is also provided below.<\/p>\n<p>Visit the U.S. Transhumanist Party Facebook page\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/USTranshumanistParty\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See the U.S. Transhumanist Party FAQ\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/transhumanist-party.org\/faq\/\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/IpUjooEZjnfOFUMi2\">Become a member<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0of the U.S. Transhumanist Party for free, no matter where you reside.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/forms\/430kp31F0D6VmXFc2\">Become a Foreign Ambassador<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>for the U.S. Transhumanist Party.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chat Log from the\u00a0Panel Discussion on Art and Transhumanism\u00a0of November 18, 2017<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/USTP_Art_and_Transhumanism_Chat_11-18-2017.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/USTP_Art_and_Transhumanism_Chat_11-18-2017.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"424\" height=\"5291\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/USTP_Art_and_Transhumanism_Chat_11-18-2017.png 424w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/USTP_Art_and_Transhumanism_Chat_11-18-2017-24x300.png 24w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/USTP_Art_and_Transhumanism_Chat_11-18-2017-82x1024.png 82w, https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/USTP_Art_and_Transhumanism_Chat_11-18-2017-8x100.png 8w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 424px) 100vw, 424px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G. Stolyarov II Emanuel Iral Rachel Lyn Edler John Marlowe R. Nicholas Starr Leah Montalto Kim Bodenhamer Smith Laura Katrin Weston Ekaterinya Vladinakova On November 18, 2017,\u00a0the U.S. Transhumanist Party invited leading artists in a variety of media and styles to a two-hour discussion, moderated by Chairman Gennady Stolyarov II and Director of Visual Art Emanuel Iral, on the subject of Art and Transhumanism, delving into how and which works of art can help inspire humans to pursue the next&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/blog\/2017\/11\/ustp-art-panel\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1710,5,104],"tags":[1923,3701,4582,115,94,5391,5401,4087,5251,5392,612,1290,40,1768,5393,5394,5395,5396,5397,521,273,4420,5398,5399,5400,2376,534,4086,2317],"class_list":["post-7598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-2","category-politics","category-transhumanism","tag-advocacy","tag-augmented-reality","tag-biohacking","tag-creation","tag-creativity","tag-design","tag-discussion-panel","tag-dystopia","tag-ekaterinya-vladinakova","tag-emanuel-iral","tag-experimentation","tag-film","tag-g-stolyarov-ii","tag-gennady-stolyarov-ii","tag-heterotopia","tag-john-marlowe","tag-kim-bodenhamer-smith","tag-laura-katrin-weston","tag-leah-montalto","tag-life-extension","tag-music-2","tag-painting","tag-r-nicholas-starr","tag-rachel-lyn-edler","tag-ryan-starr","tag-social-media","tag-star-trek","tag-utopia","tag-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7598"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7602,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7598\/revisions\/7602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rationalargumentator.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}