The Introduction Dinner to Uncanny Valley was a performative dinner, which I created as a conversation starter on bias in food industry. The menu I designed was a trigger for discussion on food production, agriculture, consumption and myths around ‘health’ values of nutrition, often motivated by economic win or spread by gossips. For me food is one of the most personal ‘mediums’ which considers everyone, therefore it’s a perfect participatory and narrative tool.
The dinners’ guests included scientists and designers working with microbiology or agriculture.
The dinner was initiated in a frame of the research project Farming the Uncanny Valley
Photos Stefan Schwabe
Introduction Dinner to Uncanny Valley, 2018, Fraunhofer UMSICHT, Oberhausen
Introduction Dinner to Uncanny Valley, menu, 2018
Introduction Dinner to Uncanny Valley, 2018, Fraunhofer UMSICHT, Oberhausen
Introduction Dinner to Uncanny Valley, 2018, Fraunhofer UMSICHT, Oberhausen
'Electric-food'- what is relation between food and energy? Sichuan pepper (sensation of electricity tingling, Belgian endive (in second phase of growing it's harvested without sun-light), potato (school conductivity experiment), oil (can be used for cooking as well as bio-fuel)
3 types of butter made of fresh farm milk, organic milk from supermarket, long-life milk
Introduction Dinner to Uncanny Valley, 2018, Fraunhofer UMSICHT, Oberhausen