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Hedonistika is a multi-modal event that brings together food scholars,
artists, and roboticists to examine the innumerable (and often hidden)
ways in which technology and food are related. By engaging with the
hegemony-challenging ideology of hacking, participants will seek to
interrogate and expose the mutually constructive bonds of food and tech,
while proposing alternative, playful, and stimulating reconfigurations.
The event proposes a hack: a hybrid of bricolage, play, criticality,
and cross-disciplinary collaboration. The goal is to reflect and perhaps
undo the assumptions and habits that frame our everyday interactions
with both food and technology, while making evident their
often-neglected entanglements. Hedonistika will be a one-week festival
that will begin with a 3 day symposium comprised of workshops, a panel
discussion, and three session of invited and registered speakers. The
goal is to merge research-creation with critical analysis, and community
engagement with celebration. (Plus, it will taste and look really
cool.)Hedonistika is looking for robotic projects and
performative works that explore the critical issues within these realms.
The curators are accepting proposals for complete works (and works
almost complete) for the exhibition in the festival portion of the
event. Proposed projects should have a technological component. Artists
should submit a pdf document comprised of…· A short CV (2 pgs)
· Short description of the project (150 words max)
· Long description of the project (500 words max) including images if possible
· Short bio
· Description of support material
· Documentation of past work (no more than 10 items)
· URL to artist websiteHedonistika is scheduled for 2013 in Montreal and will be an Elektra sponsored event.
Please e-mail submissions to: hedonistika@monochrom.at
Deadline January 15th, 2013