New Museum Presents New Humans: From Museum to Screen  

“What does it mean to be human amid exponential technological change? On the occasion of the inaugural exhibition of the expanded New Museum, New Humans: Memories of the Future, the New Museum and Metrograph present a series of screenings that extend the exhibition’s central questions into the world of cinema, pairing artists featured in New Humans with films that expand the exhibition’s themes. From the ways technology shapes human life today to speculative futures and reimagined cities, post-human life forms, artificial intelligence, and the ancient and enduring fantasy of creating new life, the program examines humanity’s evolving relationship to technology—and what is at stake in how we respond to it. Throughout the run of the exhibition, each screening at Metrograph creates a shared space between art and cinema for imagining new ways of being human.  The series continues in May with Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962) and Hito Steyerl’s How Not to Be Seen. A Fucking Didactic Educational .MOV File (2013), with Steyerl in person, and in June Tishan Hsu will be presenting his short video work emergent mesh (2025) followed by David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ (1999).” —Thalia Stefaniuk, series co-curator and New Museum Curatorial Assistant

The New Museum’s inaugural exhibition New Humans: Memories of the Future runs from March through August 2026