“The Final Frontier” was the second in a series of three exhibitions investigating changing borders and boundaries in contemporary culture.  The exhibition focused on changing relationships between the body and technology, and addressed the impact of such technologies as surveillance, medical imaging and various communication systems on our physical and psychic selves.¹ 

Said curator Alice Yang in the exhibition’s brochure, “The spheres of the body and technology, once viewed as dichotomous and inviolate, have begun to overlap and blur. The Final Frontier examines this transgression of boundaries between the body and technology from an interdisciplinary perspective, linking key developments in the social sciences and mass culture to current trends in art. The body is presented here not only as a biological but also as a disputed social space, a border to be crossed and recrossed by other bodies and technologies. Accordingly, many of the artists in this exhibition view technology as enmeshed within a set of social institutions and relations in which questions of the body as well as biology, private space, individual rights, community and territorial boundaries are also at stake.”² 

Artists featured in The Final Frontier included: Lawrence Andrews, Aziz + Cucher, Ana Barrado, Shu Lea Cheang, Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, Michael Joaquin Grey, Alexander Hahn, Jose Antonio Hernandez-Diez, Howard Hogan, Willis Tsosie and Lori Ann Two Bulls/Russell Count1y BBS, Michael Joo, David Kelleran, Middle College High School/Roland Hayes Intermediate School 291, Nela Ochoa, Julia Scher, Softworlds Inc. Qanine Cirincione, Brian D'Amato, Micheal Ferraro, Michael Spertus), Fred Tomaselli, and Andrea Zittel.³