Hologram of the Star Child

University of the Arts London presents Beyond 2001: New Horizons, an exhibition that explores how activating the archive can creatively enable the development of new work and inform ideas. Celebrating the 10-year anniversary of the Stanley Kubrick Archive at the University's Archives and Special Collections Centre, students will produce and show work alongside invited artists and academics that offer new perspectives inspired by archive material from 2001: A Space Odyssey Genetics of a Star Child: Here is a realisation of how the human species may look like in the future after undergoing a considerable time of evolution. The inspiration for this artwork is Stanley Kubrick's "2001: a Space Odyssey", directed in 1968. The film explores fundamental questions about human existence, chief among them being where we - as a species - are towards. What forms will humans take in the next stages of the evolution? And is there a perfect form of existence at which evolution ends? Kubrick presented his interpretation of these questions in his film through his exploration of the different phases of human evolution, from dawn of humans to their future, the latter of which is expressed in the form of the Star Child.