Transvision 1998

The first European Transhumanist Gathering


Location: Weesp, The Netherlands, (near Amsterdam and Schiphol Airport)
Date: June the 5th, 6th and 7th 1998

The program
A Photo-impression
A personal impression by Arjen Kamphuis

Short impressions from various participants

Below some short impressions from various participants of the first European Transhumanist Gathering. Waldemar Ingdahl, Aleph Sweden:
Incredible, there are quite a few transhumanists in Europe, and now that we have met we can start to plan about some serious stuff. Let us organize a European Meeting in 1999 too.

Ake Brannstrom, Aleph, Sweden:
It's fun, and I think that Amsterdam is an excellent city to host TransVision. I hope to see you there next year!

Gernot Faulseit, Germany:
Pretty interesting, nice city, nice people - just a perfect atmosphere to discuss Transhuman goals. To the rest of the German Transhumanists: We need our own association!!

Anders Sandberg, Aleph, Sweden:
This is the start of something great.

Felix Ungman, Aleph, ExI, World
TransVisionaries of the world are uniting.

Erik Moeller, Germany:
Sweet location. It is certainly interesting to meet the people you have only talked to via email before. Anyone who did not come missed something, although it is hard to describe what.

Remi Sussan, France:
Really great event!

Klaus Mathwig, Germany:
Great event, we should start a german transhumanist organization.

Sven Visser, Transcedo, ExI, the Netherlands:
Having a great time whitnessing the beginning of great things to come.

Holger Wagner:
It's nice to see some of the bodies, mimics and gestures that belong to the ASCII-communication on the mailing-lists. We should do this somewhat more often until we have life-like Avatars ;-)

Henrik Alpsten:
Killroy wasn't here. But all the other nice guys in european Transhumanism are. Nice seeing the faces, some realtime presentations and having fun at the same time.

Henri Kluytmans:
I think part of the future of transhumanism is being shaped here. I'm thrilled to be here. I hope this is only the first of a yearly event.

Berrie Staring:
I really hope we can have even more people on TransVision '99. If we keep this "meme" going, I think we can atract a lot more "new" Transhumanists. At least all the organisations we have now are very much willing to cooperate and build a solid Transhuman-network.


Thanks to Felix Ungman for a lot of photographic material.

Also Frank Prengel put some pictures of TransVision on his site . Furthermore Frank Prengel wrote a short report about TransVision for the German E-Zine "Telepolis", it can be found here (only in German though)