Humaneaty TV is a Futurist Cooking show for the Modern Age that explores how humans consume life, and how life consumes them.
It invites critical reflection on the consumption of technology in everyday life, reimagining how we interact with the digital world and revealing the strangeness of contemporary human behavior.
Led by two shiny ‘aliens’ serving as both facilitators and symbols of self-reflection, this practice remixes Futurism into the Digital Age by leveraging cooking, eating, and technology as mediums of daily consumption to provoke habits of human life. Through absurdist expression, speculative fabulation, interactive technologies, and 90’s futuristic aesthetics, it questions reality and casts new light on habituated patterns of behavior. In this alien storyworld, ‘food’ is anything consumed regularly (from cellphones to potato chips!), ‘smart objects’ are dumb, and ‘cooking’ becomes a framework for co-creating rituals that feed the human spirit instead of the body.
This speculative TV show is derived from award-winning project Eat Tech Kitchen (Best Immersive Non-Fiction @idfadoclab 2018), which presented a surreal kitchen installation and dinner party that transforms recipes into performances with the audience, catalyzing absurd behaviors around (and with) our 21st-century technology as ingredients. The Humaneaty TV series continues its mission to explore the absurdities of our daily “digital diets” and mass consumption.
