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...

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Published in:UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies
Main Author: Umana K., Carmen
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: York University 2017
Subjects:
Atlantic salmon
Salmo salar
Online Access:https://currents.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/currents/article/view/40275
https://doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/40275
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description 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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Cyborg Salmon
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publisher York University
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