“Visions of the PostNatural” features large-scale stereoscopic photos of bio-engineered specimens from his museum’s collection, alongside biological specimens from UMMNH.
Professor Rich Pell’s solo exhibition “Visions of the PostNatural” opens at the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History (UMMNH) on October 25. The show features Pell’s large-scale stereoscopic photographs of specimens from his own Center for PostNatural History (CPNH), alongside biological specimens from both the UMMNH and CPNH. The exhibition offers a vivid exploration of living organisms altered by their relationship with humans. Also on October 25, Pell will give a lecture at the University of Michigan, coinciding with the opening of his solo exhibition and book launch.
In addition, Pell’s The Mermaid De-Extinction Project will be showcased at the MIT Museum for the final month of the two-year exhibition “Gene Cultures.” Pell will also give several lectures this fall. As part of the Cambridge Science Festival at the MIT Museum on September 28, he discussed his new book This is NOT An Artifact in conversation with Boston Globe health and medicine editor Anna Kuchment. He also presented Stellar Drift, his new bio-space art project, to the local astronomy community at the Allegheny Observatory on September 20.