Masterminds of contemporary Transhumanism

An open-end art project about people who have introduced important memes in the H+ meme ecosystem

Evolutionary Portrait Art by Günter Bachelier: Photos of the masterminds are transformed in one of my evolutionary art processes and 2000 motif individuals were generated for each of them.

My list of subjective selected masterminds include (# deceased, ? not yet implemented):

Nick Bostrom
?Alexander Chislenko #
Aubrey de Grey
?Robert Ettinger
FM-2030 #
?Ben Goertzel
J. B. S. Haldane #
Robin Hanson
James J. Hughes
Julian Sorell Huxley #
Ray Kurzweil
Marvin Minsky
?Hans Moravec
Max More
David Pearce
Anders Sandberg
Natasha Vita-More

The evolutionary portrait art is adding an additional symbolic meaning in terms of
transhumanism to my art: the believe that individuals will have the opportunity to self-modify to an unlimited number of new points in the space of mind. And regarding my work in evolutionary algorithms I strongly believe that evolutionary computation will play an important role as an enabling technology.

A description of the evolutionary art methods can be found on
www.evogenio.com/de/GBEvoArt/EvoArt.html
or as chapter 12 in the book:

Romero, Juan; Machado, Penousal: The Art of Artificial Evolution. A Handbook on Evolutionary Art and Music (Natural Computing), Springer, Berlin, 2007, ISBN: 3540728767
art-artificial-evolution.dei.uc.pt