is a programme of public experiments, informal gatherings, field notes and tastings, in which food spices up our everyday practice.

… a few notes from a preliminary meeting:

The programme can have different outings:

• aperitivi
• banquets
• workshops
• performances/events
• installations
• bite size symposia
• tools
• publications

Some suggestions:

Following the good old italian tradition: food is free, but you also get to consume whatever else is around, be it alcohol or art or quantum theory. It all becomes much more easily digestible. This phenomenon is also otherwise known as exhibition openings.

• a banquet for 1000 people catered by skychefs (from the air, optional)
• f0amf0od banquet in December - not quite sure what it should be yet
• organise a trip to the ZKM's Bankete exhibition bankett. Metabolismus und Kommunikation

• Historical / Etnographic / Philosophical musings on food culture
• Presentations of interesting approaches to preparing/serving/eating food (Eg. mlecular Gastronomy
• Presentations by artists involving food as their material/medium/…

• Digestible Media

In which the organisers provide the basic ingredients, everyone brings their favorites. The ingredients can be foodstuffs, drinks, but also tools, furniture, media… the workshop dissects the creative practices into stages of the cooking process. The result of the workshop is a dinner, with the dinner table as a mediating interface. The workshop should take place in different locations, and the ingredients exclusively regional. The first of the workshops will be organised and lead by Nat in KUDA, Novi Sad at the end of June 2003.

• mood restaurants; In a traditional restaurant, the menu is composed of proposed sound and lighting compositions. The guests choose the different components, knowing that their choice will affect the whole mood in the restaurant. The chefs prepare food as their response to the media choices with a set range of ingredients.
• mobile fast theory stand; Junk food wrapped up in unsolved theoretical problems.
• slow filmfood marathons / eat along movies; Eatable displays of white food on which movies with food themes are projected and digested. http://www.londonfoodfilmfiesta.co.uk/Filmma~1/Foodfi~1.htm
• simmering media duels; 2 Teams of Food Jockeys (FJs), DJs and VJs battling an evening long duel with predefined basic ingredients (blue food, videos of people eating…)
• Sia's coffee performances; In shich sia's body is extended into the table ('mediating interface')

• interactive institute's brainbar; which mixes personalised coctails based on the visitors' brainwaves
• time's up beer robot; (if it is not abandoned..)
• food bubbles and inflatable food; (not quite sure where this could go)

• andy/strauss's knudel machine?; production line sized machine for producing this austrian delicacy - or some other site specific event
• automatic recepy generator; As an extension of the modular cooking techniques. Can be extended with an affective sensing device.
• a pantone (number) to ingredient converter (for aesthetic cooking). target market: online supermarkets for fashion victims and design addicts.

• txOom cookbook
• catalogue of the programme

• foam food in kibla → http://fo.am/trg/kibla/mar11/food/iindex.php

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