The premise of this traveling exhibition is an apocalyptic vision of a not-so-distant “post human” future when the planet will be populated by artificially perfected beings, genetically altered and surgically reconstructed. In this asocial world, one’s identity is not formed through a process of socialization but by computer-generated “mind exercises.” The catalogue essay, written by Jeffrey Deitch, who also organized the exhibition, portentously states: “Our children’s generation could very will [sic] be the last generation of ’pure’ humans.” While the effects of bio-technology and genetic