Doctor Enrique Guarner remembers his arrival at Veracruz and his first contact with Mexican food culture: “We only spent a day in Veracruz and then later we went from Veracruz to Jalapa in an old car. That is where I ate spicy food for the first time. It was a real shock for me. They gave me mole and a soft drink I had never tried before called Coca Cola,...
Leer másDo you know what you are eating? Interview with Cat Kramer and Zack Denfeld
Dedicated to examining the future of food by mapping its current controversies and looking for more biodiverse alternatives, the Center for Genomic Gastronomy explores the genomes and biotechnologies that configure our food systems. The research lead by artists, designers and curators Cat Kramer and Zack Denfeld has generated a wide range of outputs,...
Leer másMeta Life: an online resource covering art, artificial life and biotechnologies
Leonardo/Olats recently launched Meta Life, a website that serves as the online companion piece to the book Meta-Life. Biotechnologies, Synthetic Biology, A Life and the Arts (MIT Press, 2014), edited by Annick Bureaud, Roger Malina and Louise Whiteley. As in the book to which it refers, the website is divided into four main sections: Bio Art, Bio Design,...
Leer másGenerative Invasion: a book about generative art
Emiliano Causa, award-winning artist in VIDA 9.0 and VIDA 11.0, recently published the first volume of Generative Invasion. Frontiers of generativity in three dimensions, robotics and augmented reality. Available in free e-book format, this volume has emerged from the research projects “New Territories of Generativity in Electronic Arts: their...
Leer másTealemetree: a workshop on trees and the invisible
From 29 to 31 August, the Tealemetree workshop will take place in the Hyytiälä forest in Finland, led by the artist Agnes Meyer-Brandis, winner of Second Prize in VIDA 15.0 with her project Moon Goose Analogue. The title of the workshop is the result of the combination of the words “tea”, “telemetry” and “tree”, and consists of an...
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