Cyborg Salmon
This figurative sculpture invites the viewer to reconsider the boundaries that presumably exist between organic life and artificial technology; nature and culture. By bending wires, tubes, thread, and netting into the body of an Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), this work attempts to convey the species...
| Published in: | UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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York University
2017
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| Online Access: | https://currents.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/currents/article/view/40275 https://doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/40275 |
| Summary: | This figurative sculpture invites the viewer to reconsider the boundaries that presumably exist between organic life and artificial technology; nature and culture. By bending wires, tubes, thread, and netting into the body of an Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), this work attempts to convey the species' biological dependence on the technical and social ingenuity that facilitate its existence in Lake Ontario and adjoining tributaries.Find full piece in .pdf below. |
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