New Humans: Memories of the Future

At the New Museum, *New Humans: Memories of the Future* traces how artists have imagined the “human” as something designed, optimized, or re-made. The exhibition brings together works that borrow from science fiction, cybernetics, and social history, linking body politics to the technologies that promise improvement and control. In a city that has long served as a testing ground for new media and new identities, the show reads as a local chapter in a wider cultural debate. Its clearest insight is that the future it depicts is already embedded in the present.