The Art of Data Cuisine: The Open Data Cooking Workshop // 15-16 September 2012
Have you ever tried to imagine how a fish soup tastes whose recipe is based on publicly available local fishing data? Or what a pizza would be like if it was based on Helsinki’s population mix? Do you want to know how data could relate to cooking? Can you imagine to push the paradigms of data representation to the extreme by applying the principles of your local cuisine?
The Open Data Cooking Workshop is an experimental research on the representation of data with culinary means. The workshop researches ways to represent local data through the inherent qualities of food such as color, form, texture, smell, taste, nutrition, origin etc. It offers to its participants the opportunity to translate data in concrete, sensually experienceable matter, from the language of numbers into the language of food, and thus to gain unexpected insights into both media and learn about their inner constructions and relations.
The workshop is a collaborative research experience, blurring the boundaries between teachers and participants, data and food. At its end, an open data menu be created and publicly tasted. The workshop will be documented in the form of a cookbook that will be made available online.
The workshop is produced by Pixelache and organised by prozessagenten in collaboration with Moritz Stefaner, and Miska Knapek and chef Antti Nurkka.
The workshop is kindly supported by Goethe Institute and the Unkari kulttuuri- ja tiedekeskus. Partner venues are Aromin Keittiö and Media Factory.
WHERE AND WHEN
Saturday 15.9, 10 - 7 pm, Open Data Cooking workshop @ Aalto University Media Factory, Hämeentie 135 C.
Sunday 16.9, 10 - 5 pm, Open Data Cooking workshop @ Aromin keittiö, Mäkelänkatu 56, 3. krs.
Sunday 16.9, 5 - 6 pm, Public presentation and tasting @ Aromin keittiö, Mäkelänkatu 56, 3. krs.
ORGANISERS
prozessagenten is a Berlin based studio that researches and initiates processes by art and design. It was founded in 2011 by Susanne Jaschko.
Moritz Stefaner is a well-known information visualizer focusing on information aesthetics and interactive visualization. He holds a B.Sc. in Cognitive Science and an M.A. in Interface Design.
Miska Knapek is a Helsinki based artist and information visualizer who has a background in Graphic Design and Interaction Design. He is also co-founder and member of the We Love Open Data group.
Antti Nurkka, an experienced culinary designer and hardcore foodie.
HOW TO REGISTER FOR THE WORKSHOP
If you would like to participate, please send a short email to opendatacooking@pixelache.ac that tells us a bit about your motivation and background. Experience in working with data is welcome, but not required. Actually we would like to explicitly encourage people with an interest in cooking to participate.
Please send your email as soon as possible, but certainly before September 10, 2012. We can accept 15 participants max. In case more people register, we will create a waiting list. We will send you a confirmation within a few days after you registered. Please make sure that you can participate in the entire workshop starting on Saturday morning at 10:00 and finishing on Sunday evening at about 20:00. With your registration you agree to the publication of the workshop results, video-recordings and photographs made during the workshop.
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