A surreal tableau of laughing faces, fairy tale figurines, and a curiously macabre mouse. Roger Ballen (from 2013) at Throckmorton Fine Art.

The artist’s daughter hiding behind a silicone model of the mother. Aneta Grzeszykowska (from 2018) in the New Humans: Memories of the Future group show at the New Museum.

Looking up at the elegance of structural complexity. Germaine Krull (from 1928/2002-2003) in the New Humans: Memories of the Future group show at the New Museum.

Technological movements from an aerofuturist dance. Giannina Censi (from 1931) in the New Humans: Memories of the Future group show at the New Museum.

Jewelry made for the Bauhaus “Metal Party”. Marianne Brandt (from 1929) in the New Humans: Memories of the Future group show at the New Museum.

A schoolgirl making a surreal “automatic writing”. Albert Wyndham (from 1927) in the New Humans: Memories of the Future group show at the New Museum.

Creating armor-like sculptures from discarded mannequins and debris. Liliana Maresca (from 1983) in the New Humans: Memories of the Future group show at the New Museum.

An intimate encounter between mouth and typewriter. Lenora de Barros (from 1979) in the New Humans: Memories of the Future group show at the New Museum.

Bell Labs researchers converting the human form into computer-processed information. Kenneth Knowlton and Leon Harmon (from 1967) in the New Humans: Memories of the Future group show at the New Museum.

Building a self-portrait out of computerized characters and symbols. Anna Bella Geiger (from 1969) in the New Humans: Memories of the Future group show at the New Museum.

Using an oscilloscope to make spiraling “electronic abstractions”. Benjamin Laposky (from 1952) in the New Humans: Memories of the Future group show at the New Museum.

Transforming the proportions of a human head, labeled degenerate art by the Nazis. Otto Freundlich (from 1912) in the New Humans: Memories of the Future group show at the New Museum.

Archival documentation of wartime inventions, like these puzzling acoustic horns. Unidentified photographer (from 1935) in the New Humans: Memories of the Future group show at the New Museum.

Interrupting a portrait of Alan Turing with a twist of computer cable. Henrik Olesen (from 2012) in the New Humans: Memories of the Future group show at the New Museum.

Using light to trace a time-and-motion cyclegraph. Frank Gilbreth (from c1914) in the New Humans: Memories of the Future group show at the New Museum.

Embryonic human legs at sixteen weeks. Lennart Nilsson (from 1965) in the New Humans: Memories of the Future group show at the New Museum.

A stressed photocollage representing the traumas of postwar Britain. Nigel Henderson (from 1961) in the New Humans: Memories of the Future group show at the New Museum.

Mapping the topography of human skin. Seth Price (from 2015) in the New Humans: Memories of the Future group show at the New Museum.

The surreal snarl of an animal carcass. Wols (from 1938) in the New Humans: Memories of the Future group show at the New Museum.

Tucking a nude into a cabinet. Liane Roditi in The Uterus is also a Fist at Apexart.