TransVision 2004, the World Transhumanist Association's annual conference, is starting to take shape and it's looking to be an incredible event. The conference will be held this summer in Toronto from August 6-8 with this year's theme being "Art and Life in the Posthuman Era." Confirmed keynote speakers to date include Howard Bloom, a global brain theorist and well-known speaker on co-evolution and convergence of technology, art and culture, and Steve Mann, Canadian cyborg and the developer of the EyeTap wearable and mediated reality. Other confirmed speakers include biogerontologist Aubrey de Grey, erotic digital artist Tsubasa, transhumanist philosopher Nick Bostrom, our very own transhumanist bioethicist and activist James Hughes, Extropian artist Natasha Vita-More, developmental singularitarian John Smart, and the Center for Responsibile Nanotechnology's Mike Treder. We're also looking to get artist Stelarc and aging expert S. Jay Olshansky. And that's just the start, as we've got 5 months to go and we're sure to attract more notable speakers. For more information about TV04 visit the Website. If you'd like to present or perform, be sure to send in your proposal.
www.transhumanism.org/tv/2004/