Vita-More is currently Executive Director of Humanity+ Inc. and founded H+ Lab. From 2012 – 2014 she was a visiting Scholar, 21st Century Medicine. Since 2012, she has been an instructor at the for-profit University of Advancing Technology, former Chair of its Graduate Program, an advisor to Singularity University and consultant to IBM on the future of human performance. She is also a Fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies and on the Steering Committee of Coalition for Radical Life Extension. Her research discusses the social and ethical issues resulting from emerging technologies of artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology. She has contributed to numerous international projects, including Abandon Normal Devices festival, and the Sport Accord Convention of 2013, the TOPOS World Wise Web Initiative 2014, Cambridge Union Immortality Debate of 2017. Vita-More has been an advisor to the LifeBoat Foundation a non-profit organization and from 2002 to 2006, a former Senior Associate at the Foresight Institute, an advisor to Alcor Life Extension Foundation, and an Outreach Director of The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence. Between 1987 and 1993 she was a producer of Transcentury Update. Between 2001 and 2004, she was the president of the Extropy Institute. Vita-More is also signed up for cryonic preservation. Moreover, Vita-More says. "Our bodies will be the next fashion statement; we will design them in all sorts of interesting combinations of texture, colors, tones, and luminosity."
Work
In 1982, Vita-More wrote the Transhuman Manifesto, which was on board the Cassini-Huygens Saturn mission. It discussed the possibility for overcoming disease and extending lifespans and later she founded an organization Transhumanist Arts and Culture. In 1997 she created an artwork entitled Primo Posthuman, which depicted how a human may look in the future with technological enhancements such as color-changing skin. “Posthumans,” as written by Vita-More in one of her academic papers, “will be almost entirely augmented — human minds in artificial, eternally upgradable bodies.” Her art has been exhibited at the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Russia, the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, and the Telluride Film Festival. She authored Create / Recreate: the 3rd Millennial Culture on the emerging cybernetic culture and the future of humanism and the arts and sciences. She is also author of Transhumanism: What is it? concerning the basic questions of the philosophical, ethical and cultural worldview. She is the co-editor and contributing author of The Transhumanist Reader: Classical and Contemporary Essays on the Science, Technology, and Philosophy of the Human Future. Her project "Primo 3M+ 2001" future physique 3D design for superlongevity in a tongue-in-cheek is based on nanotechnology and AI. In 2014 she was the entrepreneur and scientific Lead, together with Daniel Barranco from the Department of Cryobiology of the Spanish University of Seville, for the first time, proved that the use of cryonic technologies does not destroy the long-term memory of the simplest multi-cellular organisms. In 2019, Aging Analytics named Vita-More one of the Top-50 Women Longevity Leaders.
Personal Life
Vita-More was born in Bronxville, New York., she lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.
