Weekend Events at Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts (VTica)

Vermont Institute of Contemporary Arts

Weekend Events at VTica

The Next Big Thing: Mind Uploading
Friday, February 17th - 7PM

This Friday evening VTica will host a fun and interactive presentation introducing and discussing the idea of "mind uploading" technology. What the heck it that you ask? Mind Uploading is at the heart of the LifeNaut technology project (www.lifenaut.com), and is sponsored by the Terasem Movement Foundation of Lincoln, Vermont.

Anticipating a day when backing up our minds will be as commonplace as backing up your computer, the LifeNaut project is working to create a safe long-term and free online space that people can begin uploading digital reflections that will represent a person's mind, personality and essential characteristics for later downloading into computers, robots and even one day new biological bodies. Now how cool is that! Bruce Duncan, M.Ed. is the Managing Director of the Terasem Movement Foundation, which was founded by Dr. Martine Rothblatt, the inventor of SIRIUS satellite Radio and several other satellite and biotech companies.

The Michael Zsoldos-Eugene Uman Quartet
Saturday, February 18th - 7PM

The Vermont Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce its first Jazz performance featuring a quartet jointly led by the outstanding saxophonist Michael Zsoldos and Vermont Jazz Center Director, pianist and composer Eugene Uman. Saxophonist, teacher, composer, and arranger, Michael Zsoldos was a headliner with his quartet at the June 2010 Burlington Discover Jazz Festival, where he released his debut CD, "Off the Cuff." He has performed at the New Orleans Jazz Festival in 2007; Chicago House of Blues and Jazz at Lincoln Center in 2008; the 2009 Obama Presidential Inauguration Eugene Uman has been Director of the Vermont Jazz Center since 1997. His most recent recording "The Convergence Project" was released in 2011. Accompanying Zsoldos and Uman will be bassist Wayne Roberts and drummer Tim Gilmore. The group will perform a variety of music including interpretations of familiar Jazz standards, classic jazz, as well as original compositions by Zsoldos and Uman.

Admission for both events is $10 for VTica members and $12 for non-members. Parking is at Peoples United Bank and Chester Hardware. 15 Depot Street, Chester, VT - 802-875-1018.

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