OPEN CALL TO CLOTHING, JEWELRY, SHOE AND ACCESSORY DESIGNERS FOR HIGH-PROFILE FASHION SHOW AND AUCTION

Cyber fashion show for interested parties in cryonics, transhumanism, the singularity, utopian, and nanotechnology.

The Institute for Accelerating Change is hosting a high-profile, futurist themed, press-packed event on May 17th, 2003 in Los Angeles. "Unite the Future" is the first public event providing a forum to discover, celebrate, and understand cryonics, transhumanism, the singularity, utopian, and increasingly human-independent computational change. Celebrate free information exchange, support the cause, express your vision of the future, share your imagination, and unite with others in a very fun, very future-friendly atmosphere.

The event's highlight is a "Futurist Fashion Carnival", blending the best in a stunning mix of cyber-erotica, fetish and biomechanical sci-fi fashion by top name area designers with the elegance of the Los Angeles area's most prominent models in a choreographed stage show. This cyber fashion show includes dancing, DJ's, bands, entertainment, dancers, bar, and lightshow. Multimedia events and the distinctive promotion of a united future of ever-increasing promise will be featured.

Currently, this event has more than a dozen confirmed journalists representing press such as Wired, MTV, Time, LA Weekly, Maxim, LA Times, local news television, and periodicals.

Future-inspired clothing, hairpieces, footwear and jewelry, and accessories for the show and auction are currently being considered and accepted. All items will be auctioned following the show. Spaces are limited and filling fast, so please submit by or before April 25th deadline! Items not selected will be returned pre-paid postage. Items used can be written off as a deduction for full retail value. A 501(c)3 number will be provided for those chosen.

The deadline to contact Wicked Talent with submissions is April 25th.

Articles are due by April 31st.

Contact: 310.398.1934 or fashionshowiac@wickedtalent.net

Headlining and producing the fashion show is worldwide fashion model sensation Donna Ricci (www.donnaricci.com), whose work has previously been featured in magazines, galleries, web sites, comics and fashion catalogs. Fashions are being showcased on Los Angeles' premiere models from the legendary Wicked Talent management firm (www.wickedtalent.net).

The Institute for Accelerating Change is a California 501(c)3 non-profit (application pending) established in 2003. IAC is actively helping people to realize the implications of and to prepare for accelerating technological change. IAC accomplishes this through conferences, newsletters, gatherings, reading groups, media projects, educational programs, and our sense of community. IAC has adopted this purpose because we believe increasing the overall understanding of accelerating change improves the quality of choices individuals make, and, in turn, the quality of choices that we make as a community.

Joining with IAC is Foresight Institute, a California 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to helping the world prepare for molecular nanotechnology. Foresight Institute will receive a portion of the proceeds from this event