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13th to 23rd of October ’18

Seattle Center

13th to 23rd of October ’18

Seattle Center

[nectar_dropcap color=””]H[/nectar_dropcap]UMAN+ was conceived and first exhibited at Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin. This new iteration is a coproduction of the exhibition by Science Gallery and Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, where it was shown betwwen October 2015 and April 2016. 

This exhibition explores potential future trajectories of our species by considering both historical and emerging technologies, as well as their cultural and ethical contexts.

What does it mean to be human today?

From Assisted Reproductive technologies (ART) to human digital remains, our lives are mediated and defined by our tools and scientific discoveries. 

However, this exhibition is not a blind celebration of technology, but is intended to present a range of imagined and real possibilities, allowing visitors to make up their own mind about the preferred future of the human species.

The exhibition explores the boundaries of what it means to be human—boundaries of the body, boundaries of the species, boundaries of what is socially and ethically acceptable. Should we enhance ourselves, or seek to modify our descendants? Are we approaching a singularity of human-machine hybridization or de-skilling ourselves through our ever-increasing reliance on technological extensions of the body? Is extended human longevity a wonderful aspiration or a dire prospect for the planet?

First presented at Science Gallery Dublin in 2011, HUMAN+ re-emerges now as a co-production between CCCB and Science Gallery, featuring many additional works, and accompanied by both a full event series and new catalogue.

BeAnotherLab took part in the 2015 exhibition in Barcelona, and now visits Rome in 2018 in order to share and spread the possibilities of the social use of virtual embodied technologies.

Practical info.

https://www.palazzoesposizioni.it/mostra/human-the-future-of-our-species-eng

From 27 February to 1 July 2018

Via Nazionale, 194, 00184 Roma RM, Italia