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/ Nomination №1. Illustrations of the neo-human

^08.10.2012

The "Neo-humanity" illustration competition.

Cast your vote!

Nomination #1. Illustrations of the neo-human - Apple MacBook Air.

Voting conditions:

1. The online voting will last for two weeks. The winners from each categpru will be announced on Tuesday, 23 October.

2. You may only vote once in each category and for only one illustration.

3. Only members of the “2045” Initiative may vote.

We wish all of the nominees good luck!

Let’s go!

1. Yulia Khudyakova. Virtual Journey

2. Ivan Kolchanov. New View

3. Ivan Kolchanov. Immortal Feeling

4. Nikolai Pronev. Avatar 2045

5. Nastyonka Kleo. The Colonist and the Dawn

6. Octavio Cordova. Neo-Humanity

7. Ksenia Komarova. Neo-interaction

8. Ksenia Komarova. Space Exploration

9. Konstantin Bratishko. Avatar D

10. Anatasia Koshchevich. Homofuturis

11. Maria Kovtun. Forest Fire

Artist's commentary: "The illustration shows a person helping an animal that could not escape from a fire. As the person is no longer afraid of fire, they may protect animals with the power of their bio-field".

12. Maria Kovtun. An Artist in Space

Artists' commentary: "The illustration shows how people will be able to fly in outer space without space suits. In this case, the artist has drawn a stellar explosion from nature, which can be seen on the edge of the globe".

13. Yuying (Nina) Zhang. Neo-Humanity

14. Yelena Dudorova. Own Body Simulation

15. Yulia Medvedeva. The Neo-Human in the Worldwide Web

16. Yarosh Nohkhan. Avatar D. Virtual Reality

Artist's commentary: "The photo shows my avatar in the virtual enviironments Second Life and Opensim. The appearance of the avatar, the objects and settings of the environment are all created by the user (i.e. me in this case). The main idea is to show freedom of creativity and self-expression that is available to the "inhabitants" of virtual worlds of the present and future".

17. Ayuna Mitulova. Neo-Human

18. Veronika Lysenko. Through the Universe

/ experts

Akop Pogosovich
Nazaretyan
Ph.D. philosopher and psychologist, editor-in-chief of Historical Psychology and Sociology magazine, and a professor at Moscow State University
“The intelligence of modern man is an artificial intelligence . . .”
Alexander A.
Frolov
Professor, head of the laboratory in the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology RAS
‘The problem of creating artificial memory devices capable of storing the natural memory of a given individual is, understandably, complex but by no means unsolvable...’
Professor Sergey V.
VARFOLOMEEV
Ph.D. in Chemistry, Head of the Chemical Enzymology Department at the Moscow State University, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of Biochemical Physics (Russian Academy of Sciences)
‘An electronic version of the brain is needed. The physical brain, in my opinion, can not be a subject of study, since it is very subtle. But an electronic analog having all the receptor equipment and the same story, incentives, motivation - it might be very interesting...’
Dmitry A.
SHAMENKOV
President of the Center for Cellular and Biomedical Technologies, First Moscow Medical University and expert on the conscious management of health, biotherapy and the prevention of aging
‘The body gradually becomes artificial; new tissues replace existing ones, and new media, somehow extending the limits of our body, are being invented. Of course, man and technology are being knitted together. Step by step, we are moving towards the formation of a cybernetic organism...’
Dmitry V.
GALKIN
“Art is a unique resource for fostering the creation of innovations. Only in the world of art creative power is so closely tied to the generation of ideas and to the humanization of technology . . .”
Lev Alexandrovich
Stankevich
The first step toward achieving human immortality is to create a neurally controlled avatar—a humanoid robot with a human-like skeleton and a set of artificial muscles and sensors.
Mikhail Y.
YABLOKOV
Ph.D. in Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Senior Researcher of the Heat-Resistant Thermoplastics Laboratory at ISPM (Russian Academy of Sciences), creator of nanosensor neurologic ‘Electronic nose’ system
‘When creating an artificial human, we need to add an emotional trend to the predominant robotics one. It’s an all-inclusive idea, and it’s in the air...’
Elena V.
TERIOSHINA
Ph.D. in Biology, Head of the Lipid Metabolism Laboratory at the Russian Institute of Gerontological Research and Development
‘There is nothing to be afraid of. The project of creating a carrier of an immortal brain is of extreme importance. Nature definitely creates talented, brilliant, genius people – but they are mortal. Mankind creates books and imparts knowledge to descendants. But imagine a genius working eternally!’
Anders
Sandberg
Researcher, science debater, futurist, transhumanist, and author
"... I certainly think that practical benefits of being able to live for ever, if I transmit myself digitally, I will be able to run on bodies which are not biological or enhanced biological and be able to backup copies in case, if something goes wrong, would be enormous. So, I think, that in the future I am hoping to be software..."
Witali L.
Dunin-Barkowski
Doctor of physics and mathematics, Head of the Department of Neuroinformatics at the Center for Optical Neural Technologies of the Scientific Research Institute for System Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences
' If the job is to be taken seriously, we can get a detailed model of a brain prototype within five years or so. And since many research areas concerned with the subject develop in parallel, it may well be that we can achieve these results even faster...'
Dmitry H.
BULATOV
Artist, art theorist, Curator of the National Center of Contemporary Arts (Kaliningrad branch)
‘In the near future, hybrid combinations of living and nonliving elements will help to recover lost or missing original features. And of course, greatly enhance them in comparison to the usual ones...’
Professor Sergey V.
SELISCHEV
Ph.D. in Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Head of Biomedical Systems Department at Moscow State Institute of Electronic Technology, Chief Editor of ‘Medical Technology’ Magazine
Vladimir A.
KONYSHEV
President of Neyrobotiks
‘The transfer of the brain into an artificial body, more enduring, more perfect, is the only way the human race to stay on Earth...’
Sergey
Jukov
Head of the Space Technology and Telecommunications Cluster at the Skolkovo
"I am absolutely convinced that the movement “2045’ happened exactly at the right time and the right place as I believe in the great future for Russia, in her success after temporary difficulties".
Viktor Yurievich
Argonov
Ph.D. in Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Senior Researcher of the V.I.Il`ichev Pacific Oceanological Institute (Russian Academy of Sciences), composer, philosopher
“I think that before initiating a radical cyborgization of the brain, you have to find the neural correlate of consciousness. Does it have a physical or purely informational nature in the form of neurosignals? Is there a group of neurons that is directly responsible for consciousness? Or perhaps consciousness is produced by still smaller elements within neurons. . . .”