In collaboration with artist Klasien van de Zandschulp, we created EAT | TECH | KITCHEN, a future kitchen powered by artificial intelligence for the IDFA DocLab Festival. Visitors interacted with a A.I. Bot to cook-up a series of Futurist-inspired recipes designed to comment on digital consumption.
La cucina futurista (Futurist Cooking), published in 1932 by the Italian poet Filippo Marinetti, was a manifesto in the guise of a culinary publication. The futurists visualized a hightech future dominated by motorized speed and masculine energy. Bourgeois traditions, they wrote, were to be swept aside by speed, machines, and new media such as cinema. The Futurists believed that the perfect arena for this conflict was the dining table, and the book was packed with the most absurd culinary excesses.
We now live in the technological society the futurists were striving for and EAT | TECH | KITCHEN reimagines the stories of the Futurist Cookbook into 21st Century interactive experiences. Led by an A.I. Bot-Chef, guests are encouraged to create unexpected culinary experiences that remix definitions of technology, ritual and consumption. Unfriend rituals, pseudo religious sessions, battery cocktails, influencer amuse and edible likes: EAT | TECH | KITCHEN presents your online existence on a futuristic platter and reflects on the absurdity (and reality) of how we consume technology.
