Transfigurations / Agi Haines (GB)
The exhibit consists of five animatronic sculptures of babies. Each baby shows a different design for a potential body enhancement that has been surgically implemented to benefit the child. Each modification is put in place to solve a potential future problem for the baby, ranging from medical to environmental to social mobility issues. The realistic, breathing, sleeping babies have illustrated descriptions of the surgical procedure and are designed to be interactive. Holding the babies gives the audience a sense of the potential reality behind the future of modification and heightens the ethical conundrum behind the question: “In a future where forced evolution seems to be the only option for a sufficiently rapid advance, what would you do to benefit your child’s life?”
credit: Agi Haines
Transfigurations / Agi Haines (GB)
The exhibit consists of five animatronic sculptures of babies. Each baby shows a different design for a potential body enhancement that has been surgically implemented to benefit the child. Each modification is put in place to solve a potential future problem for the baby, ranging from medical to environmental to social mobility issues. The realistic, breathing, sleeping babies have illustrated descriptions of the surgical procedure and are designed to be interactive. Holding the babies gives the audience a sense of the potential reality behind the future of modification and heightens the ethical conundrum behind the question: “In a future where forced evolution seems to be the only option for a sufficiently rapid advance, what would you do to benefit your child’s life?”
credit: Agi Haines