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BBC Radio Scotland | BRAINWAVES: SENSORY DINING

April 20, 2014

AD-BrainwavesSensory_4adda4The BBC Radio Scotland series, Brainwaves, explores the science behind our everyday experiences, and nowhere is this centrality of science to our lives more evident – or delicious! – than in the area of food and drink.

Mark Stephen presents a special edition of Brainwaves from the Edinburgh Science Festival with guests Professor Charles Spence of Oxford University, Amanda McDonald Crowley from New York and Andrew Barnett of the microbrewery, Barney’s Beer. The theme will be sensory dining, exploring the science behind eating.

Brainwaves will be recorded for broadcast on BBC Radio Scotland

This forum was part of GastroFest, at the Edinburgh Science Festival. My participation was part of my 2014 Alt-w Design Informatics curatorial residency with New Media Scotland.

The recording is available online as a podcast here.

 

 

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GastroLab | Open sauces

April 18, 2014

Open-sauces_coverFood, culture and the environment have an intricate relationship that extends back to the origin of humans as a social species. To survive, we eat; to eat, we feed the environment that feeds us – food is a product of the reciprocal connection to our ecological habitats.

[FoAM] look at food from a holistic and systemic perspective. Too often however we eat in haste, forgetting to truly taste food. Tonight we’ll focus our minds on the taste of food, with its visual, sonic, olfactory and tactile properties that can energise and invigorate.
[FoAM] have been working with Ginny from Blue Sky Catering to develop a menu around [FoAM]’s Future Fabulators food scenarios. Building concepts on the future of food: Continue, Collapse, Discipline, Transform. Together they have developed a tasting menu comprising an Aperitif,  Warm & Liquid, Coloured & Playful, Intense & Strange, Familiar & Nourishing, and Light & Ephemeral courses.

[FoAM] have documented the project and related research at their “future fabulators” research pages on their web site.
Sunday 20th April 2014, 7 for 7.30pm. £10/8

Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

FULLY BOOKED

LateLab is a collaboration between the Edinburgh International Science Festival, New Media Scotland and the University of Edinburgh’s School of Informatics.

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GastroLab | Slow Food

April 11, 2014

MediaScotSlowFoodThe second GastroLab that I have programmed with New Media Scotland for the 2014 Edinburgh Science Festival will focus the conversation on concepts of slow food.

Matthew Moore’s Lifecycles will fill the screens for the evening. Part of the larger effort of the Digital Farm Collective, these short time-lapse films educate consumers on the produce they are purchasing by showing the growing process as it happens in the field.

Kate Rich and Kayle Brandon will unpack the secret recipe of cola using essential oils with their Cube Cola project. Perfect to wash down Black Market Pudding by John O’Shea.

Simon Yuill will talk about his Stackwalker project, focusing on crofting communities and migrant workers in Scotland’s food and fish processing industries. Kevin O’Kane will Fife EATS (Edible and Tasty Spaces) project, a local initiative of unfenced public spaces which are planted with fruit, vegetable and flowers.

Ginny from Blue Sky Catering will be serving seasonal vegetables planted in edible soil with gribiche, and a very special black pudding, apple and bacon pie (with vegetarian haggis alternative). We’ll also be serving Zukr Tea Cakes with our Cube Cola.

Sunday 13th April 2014, 7 for 7.30pm. £10/8
Informatics Forum, 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB

For advanced table reservations click here.

LateLab is a collaboration between the Edinburgh International Science Festival, New Media Scotland and the University of Edinburgh’s School of Informatics.

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GastroLab video

April 10, 2014

“Amanda McDonald Crowley discusses the return of the GastroLab programme to Edinburgh International Science Festival and tells of the treats coming up in the 2014 programme.”
Published on 8 Apr 2014

Interview with me on the Edinburgh Science Festival’s YouTube channel discussing the GastroLab program I have curated with New Media Scotland, as part of my 2014 Alt-w Design Informatics curatorial residency.

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Bemis Center interview on KETV Omaha

March 23, 2014

Adam Price and I are interviewed on KETV Chronicle – Omaha Arts Scene, speaking about the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.

 

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interview on KETV

 

 

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Foodycle video documentation

November 23, 2013

Video documentation from the Foodycle event edited by Seungho Lee.

Foodycle Organisers

Pixelache Helsinki http://www.pixelache.ac/
Ruoan Tulevaisuus http://ruoantulevaisuus.fi/
Seungho Lee http://www.leeseungho.com
Amanda McDonald Crowley http://about.me/amandamcdc

Partners & Supporters

Aalto Media Factory, Austrian Embassy, Happi, Helsinki kulttuurikesus, HIAP, Kääntöpöytä, Ministry of Education & Culture, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Helsinki kulttuurikesus, and Unigrafia

Credit

Seungho Lee (Photography, filming and Editing) http://www.leeseungho.com
Christine Boggs (Photography) http://www.christinboggs.com
Tuure Parviainen (Photography) http://bit.ly/16VvQlQ

Music

The Gold Lining by Broke For Free, licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives (a.k.a. music sharing) License.

About Foodycle
Foodycle is a two-day event (12-13 Sep 2013) organised as a collaboration between Pixelache Helsinki with Ruoan Tulevaisuus and other partners with a strong art+design+science base.

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Field_Notes – Deep Time

September 23, 2013

In September 2013, Deep Time / Deep Futures in Helsinki in September, during the course of my HIAP residency, supported by FRAME.

Deep Time / Deep Futures is a symposium on artistic responses to the dichotomy between human time-perception and time in biological, environmental, and geological processes, within which we are embedded.

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Time:
23rd September 16:00h – 19:30h
24th September 09:00h – 16:30h

Location:
VILHO, Kuvataideakatemian seminaaritila, Sörnäisten Rantatie 27 C, Helsinki/Finland

 

The archive for the live stream from the conference is available on the Finnish Society of Bioart’s Bambuser broadcast pages.

The Symposium follows “Field_Notes – Deep Time”, a week long art&science field laboratory. It is organized by the Finnish Society of Bioart at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station of the University of Helsinki in Lapland. Five working groups were developing, testing and evaluating specific artistic approaches based on the interplay of art&science.

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Foodycle

September 11, 2013

In May 2013, I was invited to be one of Pixelache’s food-info-activism micro-residents. During my time in Helsinki, I spent time with several members of Pixelache, Ruoan Tulevaisuus, and Pixelache’s earlier food-info-activism resident, Seungho Lee, developing ideas for the Foodycle event. In September 2013, I was granted a HIAP residency to return to Helsinki. The timing was planned so that I could continue my Art/Tech/Food research, while in residency at HIAP’s incredible Suomenlinna facility, and the timing was in part planned to coincide with Foodycle on 12-13 September.

Day One of the event will take place at Viikki, outdoors on the Library square, University of Helsinki Viikki campus (Viikinkaari 11) – MAP

It will include a farmers market and some really fantastic practical workshops. (I’m certainly attending Lorenzo Ciatti’s sausage making workshop, and ordering veggies from Herttoniemi Co-op).

Day two of the event, will tale place at: Happi (Sörnäisten rantatie 31) & Pixelache (Kaasutehtaankatu 1/21) – MAP

I will present on my research at the intersection of Art/Tech/Food. In the talk, I will map historical and contemporary trade routes of food and how they affect our cultural landscape and well being, by presenting the work of a range of artists addressing these issues. I’ll also be moderating a panel on Food Culture.

Check my scoop.it aggregator page for links to a broad cross section of artist projects, reading lists, and exhibitions.

My presentation will be online shortly.

Panels were streamed and archived live on Pixelache’s Bambuser pages:

Foodycle Panel 1: MEAT (Seungho Lee, Anne-Maria Pajari, Anna Alm / Moderator: Atte Penttilä)

Foodycle Panel 2: WASTE (Arto Sivonen, Miina Porkka / Moderator: Andrew Paterson)

Foodycle Panel 3: CULTURE (Johanna Mäkelä, Aleksi Neuvonen, Saly Wade, Porridge & Potatoes, Moderator: Amanda McDonald Crowley)

Foodycle Lightning talks.

 

On the previous Sunday, a number of the organisers and speakers joined me at my HIAP studio on Suomenlinna:

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On the way to HIAP studios. Photo: Sari Kinnula

On the way to HIAP studios.
Photo: Sari Kinnula

On the way to HIAP studios. Photo: Sari Kinnula

On the way to HIAP studios.
Photo: Sari Kinnula

Sand Pies by Porridge and Potatoes youngest member. Photo: AMC

Sand Pies by Porridge and Potatoes youngest member.
Photo: AMC

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New Media Scotland residency

September 1, 2013

I was invited to be 2014 Alt-w Design Informatics Curator-in-Residence with New Media Scotland. For the residency, my assignment was to work with New Media Scotland to develop a series of GastroLab events for the Edinburgh Science Festival in April 2014.

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HIAP Residency

August 1, 2013

I have been awarded a residency with HIAP (Helsinki International Artist Programme) in Finland for the month of September, 2013.

suomenlinna_studios suomenlinnaHIAP_cityviewHIAP is a wonderful international artist residency program with facilities at the Cable Factory in Helsinki City, and on Suomenlinna, an island in the middle of Helsinki harbour. I will primarily be based on Suomenlinna in the fantastic studio facilities there.

In addition to finding the time to continue with my ArtTechFood research, I’ll be working on several projects while I’m there:

  • Following up on my Food-Info-Activism micro-residency with Pixelache earlier this year, I’ll be working with Pixelache and with Ruoan Tulevaisuus (Future of Food) on a what is shaping up to be a great event, Foodycle scheduled to take place on 12-14 September.
  • Erich Berger from the Finnish Bioart Society, has invited me to work with him as a facilitator on Field_Notes – Deep Time, a week long art & science field laboratory at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Lapland/Finland. Five working groups, hosted by Oron Catts, Antero Kare, Leena Valkeapaa, Tere Vaden, Elisabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse have been selected to develop interdisciplinary research ideas in relation to the Deep Time theme. The field laboratory will take place from 15 – 22 September with a follow up conference in Helsinki on 23 – 24 September.
  • And thanks to FRAME Visual Art Finland, I’ll also be spending time doing studio visits with Helsinki based artists, and holding topical thematic Salon gatherings in my Suomenlinna studio.
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