A-Z Breeding Unit for Reassigning Flight

Installed in the front window of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the A-Z Breeding Unit for Reassigning Flight was designed to evolve chickens with functional wings in order to reinstate the capacity of flight in a breed that had been selectively bred over time as decorative and flightless animals. The Unit channeled eggs exclusively from the highest nest into the incubator in the next compartment, where the resulting chicks would again be presented with nests of greater heights to self-select for flying ability.