“What is the human?” is precisely the question we want to explore. The human is not as human as the objects created by humans. The technolo-gy was not invented by humans, rather the other way around. Human evolution is leading towards existing outside ourselves, extending our bodies to new limits, which in all other species is only achieved by adaptation. Our brain is the main receptor of this continual change in the human existence, it works as an artifact that is molded in accordance with the material culture. We are an unfinished project whose future will never be certain.

We, humans, are possibly the only animal that has systematically designed its own extinction. In a world where the first genetically modified baby was born last year, when will the last human by evolution die and first human by design take over?

AA Barrel vault, London

January 25th, 2019