High Tech Meets High Art at the Armory Show

New York’s biggest contemporary art fair might look more like a sci-fi convention when it opens to VIPs on Wednesday.

Dozens of artists on offer at this year’s Armory Show are exploring ways technology can transform the human body. From avatars to encoded paintings to 3D-printed recreations of religious idols destroyed by Islamic State, artists are increasingly looking at how people interact, rethink or even absorb high-tech advances, said Gabriel Ritter, curator and head of contemporary art for the Minneapolis Institute...