Nancy Burson's ( N A N C Y B U R S O N .com ) work is shown in museums and galleries worldwide including major exhibitions at The International Center of Photography and the New Museum in New York City, The Venice Biennale, The Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, and The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. "Seeing and Believing", her traveling 2002 retrospective originating at the Grey Art Gallery, was nominated for Best Solo Show of the Year in New York City by the International Association of Art Critics.

Best known for her pioneering work in morphing technology, enabling law enforcement officials to locate missing children and adults, she has recently received media attention for her Human Race Machine, which allows viewers to see themselves as a different race. Currently there are several Human Race Machines touring the U.S. college and university market. As a photographer, writer, inventor, healer, and minister, Burson has lectured and taught worldwide, including a visiting professorship at Harvard and an adjunct position at New York University.
 
 

In the last few years she has collaborated with Creative Time and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council completing several important public art projects. These projects include the billboard "There's No Gene For Race" (see right) and the poster/postcard project "Focus on Peace." The LMCC's "Focus on Peace" project distributed 30,000 postcards and 7,000 posters around the site of the World Trade Center to coincide with the anniversary of 9/11.

Burson's current public art project, "Looking Up" (look up) is co-sponsored by the LMCC and Deutsche Bank and is located within the 60 Wall St. Atrium.

Burson's first text-based book, "Focus: How Your Energy Can Change the World", was published in 2004, and she has just completed her second book, "Lineage".

 
   
   
 
 
       
 

Artist Nancy Burson's unique multi-media creation, The Human Race Machine, is now available. You can bring this highly interactive technology to your campus and challenge your perception of race, age, and other outward human features.


Click here to view a short movie of The Human Race Machine - (4.8MB, requires Quicktime)


Courtesy of EGG: The Arts Show, PBS. Footage by Kathy Brew & Roberto Guerra, copyright 2000

  
 
The HRM is a computer console comprised of these different programs:
 

The Human Race Machine allows participants to see themselves with the facial characteristics of six different races mapped onto their own visage.
       
 





The Age Machine allows viewers to age his or her face. This program has been used for over twenty years to enable the FBI and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to help locate kidnap victims.

 

Left: Aged Barbie, 1994.

  
       
  The Couples Machine combines photographs of men and women in varying percentages to allow couples to view their offspring, or simply to envision layered "maleness" and "femaleness" in one face.  
       
The Anomaly Machine affords viewers the unsettling opportunity of seeing themselves with simulated facial anomalies.  
   
Additional Information on The Human Race Machine:


How does it work? Creator Nancy Burson's patented technology captures your image while you sit in front of the machine.
You use the four different programs to apply the changes you would like to see.

How is it available? The Human Race Machine is available for a full week or more.

How does it arrive? The Human Race Machine arrives in a custom-made case via ground freight. The machine and shipping
crate weigh about 250 lbs. The dimensions are approximately 28 inches wide by 44 inches long by 31 inches high.

Is it easy to set up? The installation is minimal, but we send explicit directions to make sure you get it exactly right...

Nancy Burson is also available to present a lecture. She delivers a poignant and inspiring talk about her vision. Click here to learn more.

 
   
 

"We hue-mans...of multi-colored hues. We are all One."
– Nancy Burson

" We are One race, the human race, One nationality called humanity, One religion, the religion of LOVE,  and One language, the language of our hearts."  
–Satya Sai Baba

 

    
 
   
 
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