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At long last, the footage from my inaugural lecture is online. Take a peek at the last 10 years of biology and computing to see whether ‘the future has arrived’
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My latest press clipping is in the BBC Focus lead feature on ‘Superhuman’, which runs in the May edition. Check it out for some great visuals and ideas.
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The Inaugural lecture of Professor Andy Miah, University of the West of Scotland (23 March, 2010) The year 2010 marks the 10-year anniversary of two technological revolutions – the genetic...
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As the Vancouver 2010 Games approach, will these be a genetically modified Olympics? This essay is a reply to Friedmann, Rabin et al in Science this week.
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Just published on the H+ website. The essay is about creating new life forms, which would explore and appropriate outer space environments, not our discovery of life forms.
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here’s one from a year back at Oxford University
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Troubling Classifications: Categorizing Chimeras and Enacting Species Preservation Dr Carrie Friese Lecturer in the Sociology of the Life Sciences and Biomedicine LSE 11th June 2009 5pm – 7pm H102 (First...
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Giving talk at Sheffield Uni on 9 June – Nanotechnology and Postmodern Culture What kind of future is nanotechnology creating for us? What will it mean to be human in...
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Presentation given 15 mins ago on human enhancement technologies…. and some photos from the event.. and some notes too… Human Enhancement European Parliament Martinjntje Smits, Ratheneau What is new about...
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February 24, 2009 Brussels, Belgium IEET fellow Andy Miah will be speaking at the one day workshop for the European Parliament in Brussels, on Tuesday 24 February 2009 Sponsored by...
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Buy the Human Futures book by clicking here
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Find below the full Programme for 30 October, 2008, FACT, Liverpool, UK. Book Tickets And, via a presentation I gave last week, a sense of the book’s visual content: 10.00-10.15 ...
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Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty Originally uploaded by andymiah Human Futures: Art in an Age of Uncertainty website: http://humanfutures.wordpress.com 30 October 2008 Symposium & Book Launch 10.00-5.00pm...
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ISEA 2009 Originally uploaded by andymiah I’ve recently become involved with ISEA 2009 as a Steering Committee member and Programme Theme Chair for ‘Posthumanism: New Technologies and Creative Strategies’. here’s...
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Just published a new position piece for the Hastings Center online environment, Bioethics Forum: Friday, June 6, 2008 Paralympics 2.0 BY ANDY MIAH Oscar Pistorius was right all along, at...
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A month or so back, I published a couple of new articles, which each deal with the concept of posthumanism. The main article details a typology of human enhancements that...
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A BEIJING OLYMPICS CULTURAL PROJECT National Art Museum of China (NAMOC) No. 1 Wusi Street Dongcheng District Beijing 100010 P.R.ChinaJun 10, 2008 -July 3, 2008 During the 2008 Beijing Olympic...
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I just received my copy of the new publication from the US President’s Council on Bioethics. This volume looks like a great addition to the literature. Human dignity featured heavily...
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Future Ethics: Climate Change, Political Action and the Future of the Human An interdisciplinary workshop series, June 2008 – January 2009, held in Manchester. www.manchester.ac.uk/futureethics <https://owa.liv.ac.uk/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.manchester.ac.uk/futureethics> 3 one day workshops...
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Transhuman minds? Is cognitive enhancement a human right? Tuesday 11th March 2008, 3-6pm The Royal Society of Medicine, London W1G 0AE The development of cognitive enhancement has meant the phrase...
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Today, I attended FACT’s seminar for artists and professionals, based around their Human Futures exhibition. The conversations were broadly about the practice of art processes and how we should proceed...
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Last night was the launch of the Human Futures exhibit SK-interfaces at FACT. It was really extraordinary and nice to see some friends come over for the event. The highlight...
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ORLAN at Goldsmiths Tuesday 5 February 2008 6.15pm THE THEATRE Department of Drama The Department of Drama’s Performance Research Forum and the Digital Studios’ (Department of Computing) Thursday Club are...
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New exhibition and conference starting the FACT programme. Looks good! “Designer hymens, a composite coat made of blended skin cultures by legendary French artist ORLAN, a brain infused with glowing...
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The RSA event last week was a whirlwind through so many different technologcical futures that tying everything together was quite a challenge. We roved from Web 2.0 to artificially intelligent...
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It’s perplexing how i can be invited all over the world to speak about this subject and, on my own doorstep, not a peep. There’s a moral here somewhere, and...
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I’ve just finished a reply to Nick Bostrom’s ‘Letter from Utopia’ It will appear on my website in a few days, but here’s the final document and it’s citation details:...
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Science as Culture CALL FOR PAPERS: special issue on ‘Technology, Death and the Cultural Imagination’ Deadline for receipt of abstracts: November 17th, 2007 This special issue will explore concepts of...
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This week, Craig Venter has been working the UK media to its fullest in what seems a whistlestop tour over to convey his work in the area of synthetic biology....
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The launch of the ENSN takes place in London next month on 12th and 13th November. I’ll be there as will Alex Mauron who’s speaking in the final plenary. [Alex...
