About the selection committee

After the publication, last year, of the two special issues on the Transhumanist philosophical movement by Re-public, we are proposing to deepen this reflection through the organization of an international exhibition of artworks realized by artists expressing themselves on the same subject.
At this end, we set a selection committee of seven persons which, since June, 2009, oversees the preparations for the exhibition. The committee has selected the artworks that will be presented in the online exhibition “Devenir Humain: The Art of Human Enhancement”.
The composition of the committee is the following:

- Marion Duquerroy, PhD student (history of art) and lecturer, university Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
- Olivier Goulet, transmedia artist, creator and manager of SkinBag
- Pavlos Hatzopoulos, Re-public
- Dr. Miriam Ji Sun, Foresight Researcher – emerging technologies and the future of humanity / Chair: De:Trans – German Transhumanist Association.
- Shengwei Lee , Founder Member of C2CN( H+ China) , Beijing
- Marc Roux, teacher, chairman of the Association Française Transhumaniste : Technoprog! (AFT)
- Natasha Vita-More, Theorist and Media Artist. PhD Fellow, Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth; Visiting Scholar, 21st Century Medicine; Fellow, IEET; Advisor, Singularity University; Fellow, Advisor, Alcor Life Foundation. Author, Transhuman Manifesto

This committee, has worked for several months to discern the criteria which have allowed us to select the works that seem the most appropriate for reflecting on the problematic of Transhumanism.
It has developed a common assessment grid for the works so as to make them comparable and to allow the emergence of a classification. The presentation of works and artists in the pages of this exhibition reflects this thinking. The artists and works with the more favorable opinions, both in terms of aesthetics or subjectivity of each member and in term of relevance of treatment of the subject are further developed.
Some works have appeared in poor quality or not within the issues proposed, in which case they are simply reported as a link to the workspace H+AC (PBWorks).
Our task has also consisted in reviewing the final elaboration of the website where the exhibition is held.

I must thank now all the members of this committee whom, since June 2009 for the firsts of them, have followed closely the development of this project, spent many hours and have agreed to support a team launched into a quite new adventure.
We had overcome many difficulties in the technique or the difference of languages. This is perhaps not the least of the merits of its participants for making the effort of patience and understanding required by an international collaboration involving five countries and four languages as distinct as English, French, Greek and Chinese.
But we got there and the door is now open to an even wider cooperation for the artistic expression of transhumanist thought.

For the selection committee

Marc Roux