"Become a Cyborg Hybrid"


Cyborg Hybrids is a digitally altered photo series that attempts to challenge our views towards mixed race classifications by using humorous text and imagery from two cultures. The subjects are Euro-Aboriginal artists who are forward thinkers and plugged in with technology. They follow the doctrine of Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto [1], which states that a cyborg is a creature in a technological, post-gender world, free of traditional western stereotypes towards race and gender. I am Scottish and Oji-Cree descent and I started exploring this new classification when I felt pressured to culturally identify, amongst the many existing stereotypes and misconceptions about those of mixed ancestry. When society refers to Aboriginal people, there is an inevitable linking to the past and I was tired of this assumption placed on myself so I focused on creating a new structure using the cyborg as the base to represent the influence of technology on my own sense of cultural identity.
(see Cyborg Hybrids , "photography" link for more details).

[1] http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.html


You are a Cyborg Hybrid if you are:
- Artistic
- Plugged into Technology (ie use email to communicate)
- of both Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal descent
- A positive influence to your community

To participate in this project follow these easy steps.

1) Put on a white t-shirt and place yourself in front of a white wall.
2) Snap a portrait photo of you posing like a Cyborg Hybrid. Make sure that the top of your head to your mid-chest is visable.
3) Email* the picture including your name, location, what kind of artist you are and your choice of beading text that you would like to have on your t-shirt to art.kcadams@gmail.com
4) I will photoshop your image and add you to the project


Beading text, please choose one for your t-shirt:
ASK ME ABOUT MY SWEETGRASS
AUTHORITY ON ALL ABORIGINAL ISSUES
FORMER LAND OWNER
GANG MEMBER
HALFBREED
INDIAN GIVER
INDIAN PRINCESS
I'M NOT FROM INDIA
I'M ON INDIAN TIME
IROQUOIS SCOUT
IT'S OK, I'M WHITE TOO
MOHAWK GAS
NOBLE SAVAGE
POCAHONTAS
SAVAGE
SCALPING IS IN MY BLOOD
SPIRITUAL BY DEFAULT
TEEPEE CREEPER
TOKEN INDIAN
WAGON BURNER



Thank you in advance.


Please check back regularly to view new pictures from this project.

*Please read the model release page, by emailing me the photos for the project you are consenting to the model release of your image. http://www.kcadams.net/info/modelrelease.html/

Labels: Call for Participation

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