Digital Food for Thought
Wendy Levy, BAVC Director of Creative Programming
In our new “digital ecology,” it seems we are all producers. Our capacity to create and feed information, content, images, and identities from and to one another is now an experience and extension of the body so ubiquitous that not to do it can leave you feeling hungry and alone. A blank screen is like an empty stomach: no feeds (RSS), no tubes (YOU), no culture.
We live in a world where anyone can be a content provider, and content is constantly “consumed,” millions of bytes of it. I know a little something about consumption; I’ve tended a parallel career in the food business for over twenty years, with more than a decade at the venerable Chez Panisse Restaurant. (I’m a recovering waitress who deeply appreciates the perfect peach, the just-foraged mushroom, and seared wild salmon with micro-arugula.) I learned about “slow food” from Alice Waters herself. The Slow Food Movement was founded on the principle that the industrialization of food was leading to the annihilation of food varieties and flavors. Wider distribution of products (content) to the hungry comes at the steep cost of transforming food into feed. (more…)
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