Cyborg Corn (2025)

ARTWORKS / BIO CRAFT TECH

This is a 4-channel sound installation activated through augmented reality as a shamanic ritual, using a popcorn necklace (a pre-Columbian ceremonial adornment associated with flowering). It takes us through a sonic fabric that combines birdsong and the buzzing of bees with Morse code sounds and electromagnetic waves, using cell phone software and the presence of an amplified kernel of corn. I consider the design of this device exceptional for those interacting with the work, as the most effective way for the viewer to activate the sound installation is to hold their cell phone at heart level. The piece seeks to rethink the boundaries between the organic and the artificial, and between the ancestral and the technological. Amor Muñoz designs this delicate gesture to highlight the vital importance of corn in the worldview of Indigenous peoples in Latin America, while denouncing the threat that genetically modified corn poses not only to biodiversity but also to culture itself, which is also the heart of our existence.