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City of New Antideath – Painting by Ekaterinya Vladinakova, Commissioned by Gennady Stolyarov II

City of New Antideath – Painting by Ekaterinya Vladinakova, Commissioned by Gennady Stolyarov II

June 29, 2017 Gennady Stolyarov II Comments 3 comments

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Art by Ekaterinya Vladinakova

Painting Commissioned by Gennady Stolyarov II


City of New AntideathCity of New Antideath – Painting by Ekaterinya Vladinakova
Available via a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License

Commentary by Gennady Stolyarov II, Chairman of the United States Transhumanist Party, Editor-in-Chief of The Rational Argumentator: 

For my coming thirtieth birthday, I have commissioned a colossal cityscape depicting my vision and hope for the future progress of humankind. Artist Ekaterinya Vladinakova, a long-time supporter of transhumanism and life extension, was the evident best choice for this project.

The City of New Antideath represents a future society which has overcome death, disease, and today’s principal sources of material scarcity and discomfort. This city contains more than ample living space in ornate, radiantly illuminated skyscrapers. Smaller villas, domed towers, and other luxuriously ornamented buildings adorn the central walkways. There is ample room for pedestrian traffic and plant growth sculpted into geometrically complex patterns – including on the rooftop terraces of many of the mega-skyscrapers.

Flying cars and autonomous drones appear as streaks of light from the ground level. There is so much room for aerial transportation that no more traffic jams exist on the ground. One can opt for efficient transport, or for open-ended leisurely walking, and the two modes will not collide.

Over the years I have created a large number of building models using Sketchup, Minecraft, and even LEGO bricks. In my quest for permanence, they – or images of them – have been preserved and provided to the artist for inspiration. The first City of Antideath consisted of my Sketchup models. The City of New Antideath was not intended to be an exact replica, but rather a successor inspired by the prospect of juxtaposing the best architectural elements of all eras – past and yet to come.

I conveyed to Ekaterinya Vladinakova that the skyscrapers should exhibit a variety of bold colors and geometric shapes – but also be orderly and ornate. I have a great admiration for historical architecture from the 16th through 19th centuries – so while some of the buildings are geometric and futuristic, others borrow significant elements from Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassical, or Victorian styles. Russian and Eastern architectural traditions find their manifestations in this cityscape as well. The idea is to portray a future of extreme diversity, where all of these elements will exist side by side and interact with one another in interesting ways. Far from cultural separatism or tribalism, the future needs to borrow and develop upon the best elements from all cultures, times, and places. The culture of New Antideath is rational, scientific, progress-oriented, universalist, cosmopolitan, and at the same time hyperpluralist and welcoming of all peaceful individuals.

The most significant vision I have for this artwork is that it will become the iconic vision of a techno-positive future. Accordingly, I am rendering it available for free download and distribution via a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike License so that it might be used by others who seek illustrations of a future we can all aspire for.

I still hope that I was not born too soon – that I may someday personally witness and experience a future of this sort. But for now, although the third decade of my life did not see such a future emerge, I am happy at least to have enabled its depiction so that others can be inspired to strive toward it. Given that our immediate world has become suffused by a pervasive, destructive malaise over the past two years, we will need visions such as this to overcome it and achieve better ways to be.

There are three versions of this digital painting available for free download (left-click on the links to open, right-click to download):

– Small (1200 by 1931 pixels)

– Medium (2400 by 3861 pixels)

– Original Size (11250 by 18100 pixels – a vast canvas with immense detail. Note: This file size is immense as well – but you will be able to zoom in to view individual buildings and regard them as smaller-scale paintings in their own right.)

For those seeking musical accompaniment in viewing this painting, I recommend my Transhumanist March, Op. 78 (2014) (MP3 and YouTube)  or Man’s Struggle Against Death, Op. 58 (2008) (MP3 and YouTube).

Find out more about Mr. Stolyarov here.

Ekaterinya Vladinakova is an accomplished digital painter. See her gallery here and her DeviantArt page here.  


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3 thoughts on “City of New Antideath – Painting by Ekaterinya Vladinakova, Commissioned by Gennady Stolyarov II”

  1. Martin van der Kroon says:
    June 29, 2017 at 6:51 am

    This is an amazing piece of art! Thank you Gennady and Ekaterina!
    The large tower does conjure the image of the tower of Babylonia, is this coincidence? Did you have a large tower in mind, or is this all the artistic impression of Ekaterinya Vladinakova?

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    1. Gennady Stolyarov II says:
      July 17, 2017 at 5:46 am

      Greetings, Martin.

      Thank you for your good words regarding this painting!

      The large tower in the background of the “City of New Antideath” painting was inspired by an earlier model of mine, the Citadel of Progress, which I created in 2008 and which was intended to be the tallest building in the original City of Antideath (in Sketchup).

      You can find a description of the original building here: http://rationalargumentator.com/antideath.html#citadel_of_progress

      You can find the Sketchup model here: https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model/3aa7f1ab72fdb782b7d5a34b074ca234/Citadel-of-Progress

      Of course, this is not the very same tower. Ekaterinya added some creative touches of her own to it and used various other models I created to insert some more detailed architectural elements. But the geometric shapes comprising the main tower of the City of New Antideath do strongly evoke the Citadel of Progress nonetheless.

      Sincerely,
      Gennady Stolyarov II,
      Chairman, United States Transhumanist Party

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