Erika Lincoln: The Singing Condition

Author: Mary Carpenter Reid, Erica Lincoln
Publisher: Winnipeg Art Gallery 2011
Format: Paperback
Condition: Used Like New
ISBN: 0889150087
SKU: YB01471

Price: $29.99

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Car horns. Mobile phone rings. Traffic crossing signals. The tweets and chirps of urban birds sound very different than those of their country cousins. These sounds facilitate and in some ways control humans as we move and find our way through the city. This led Winnipeg electronic media artist Erika Lincoln to consider what the effects of these communication sounds, that are used solely by humans, have on animals living in our shared environment. The answer was not far off. While observing a flock of European Starlings that regularly visit the back lane of her home she noticed that the birds have incorporated the electronic sounds of life in the city into their repertoire of songs creating a hybird call of sorts. She furthered her examination by focusing on the adaptive behaviours of urban birds. In addition to the sounds, she noticed how some birds collect discarded human-made materials and incorporate them into their nests or utilize built structures as their roosting sites. Lincoln became fascinated by how the by-products of the human technological culture were intersecting with the natural everyday ônormalö existence of birds. This research culminated in the Winnipeg Art Gallery show detailed here.
Language
English

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