Mattia Casalegno: Aerobanquets RMX
Artist(s):
Title:
- Aerobanquets RMX
Exhibition:
Medium:
- Multi-Sensorial Culinary Experience
Category:
Artist Statement:
Aerobanquets RMX is an immersive, multi-sensorial culinary experience focused on taste perception. The project debuted in 2019 and has been exhibited, in collaboration with international Chefs, in Shanghai, Gwangju, Sanya, and New York. The project investigates rituals, behaviors and modes of eating and experiencing food in the future.
Aerobanquets RMX is loosely based on “The Futurist Cookbook,” the Italian book of surreal recipes and fantastical dinners published in 1932, a seminal work that discusses the future of nourishment, aiming at transforming dining into performance art and touching issues of post-capitalism society and labor.
For this iteration of the project, Aerobanquets RMX will be constructed as a site-specific demo installation. Each activation will include three participants for a 5 minutes experience.
The project deploys several technologies, software and custom solutions from the fields of 3D modelling, CGI and mixed reality. Core of the project is a custom made software designed to “visualize flavor”. Inspired by the Flavor Thesaurus” by Niki Segnit, flavor profiles for each dish served in Aerobanquets are categorized into parameters for shapes, colors, texture and points and used to generate thirteen unique digital models. These models are subsequently used as augmented representations of the bite-sized dishes consumed by the audience in the virtual environments of Aerobanquets RMX.
The project challenges the way we construct our reality: a negotiation between senses and what our brain is making of the environment around us, and at the same time explores new social spaces and practices through the use of immersive technologies.
