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Extremtrees III

“The ancestor of the whale was a land creature, the ancestor of the land creature was a sea creature, and the ancestor of the sea creature was a multicellular organism like the ancestor of the plant”

 

“Perhaps as time passes, our descendants will grow into plants."

Artist: Martin Beauregard

Date: 2020 - ongoing

Materials: biodegradable plastics and wood composites (nanocellulose and biochar), clay and wood residues (paper mud and wood ash), clay and mining tailing (waste rocks), recycled glass, seeds and compost.

Technic: 3D Printing

Type: environmental art, sculpture, installation, ecoart, ecodesign, bioart, in situ, land art, data art, digital art, found art object, visualization and material of sounds, econarrative, narrative art, strorytelling, art and science.

Dimensions: variables

With the technical collaboration of the UQAT Intersectoral 3D Printing Laboratory and the team members: Oussama Ben Nasr, master candidate; Yosri Dammak, master candidate; Yuchen Guo, doctoral candidate; Sarra Hélaoui, candidate; Yuming Fan, candidate bachelor; Marc Lemoine, candidate bachelor.

Financial support: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and Fonds de Recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC); The Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI); UQAT Foundation.

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