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<div>dear Marina</div>
<div><br></div>
<div>thanks for sharing the Taste Drought, yeah, it rhymes
well...</div>
<div>I send you back another scenario - DRIVE BY DINING (2002). this
did get realized in Amsterdam with 300 public members dining amidst
the rise of free public wifi movement.</div>
<div>http://mauvaiscontact.info/projects/drivebydining.pdf</div>
<div><br></div>
<div><font color="#000000">DRIVE BY DINING</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br>
This is the year 2030 .<br>
Biochips have inscribed into our flesh.<br>
Mobility has colonized the body.<br>
We are tracked and traced.<br>
Our presumed freedom of movement is at stake.</font><br>
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<div><font color="#000000">Skywork lifted up the sky, sweeping webcam
SEEING and STREAMING.<br>
<br>
Calls for DIS-CONNECT is surging.<br>
<br>
DIS-CONNECT.<br>
<br>
In light of the DIS-CONNECT insurgence, the government has
seized<br>
the control of food supply line.<br>
<br>
WE CONTROL THE FOOD. WE CONTROL YOU.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">SERVICE STATIONS are set up to pipeline
STANDARD meals-</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">EAT.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">MEAT. VEGG. FISH.</font><br>
</div>
<div><font color="#000000">This is the year 2030 . <br>
No one SERVES.<br>
The government supplies ROBOT service in dining
facilities.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">the ROBOTS DELIVER.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">In the wasteland of wireless
dis-connection,</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">What is left is encrypted, coded electronic
sound beeps.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">TRANSMIT and ABSORB.<br>
The diners ORDER. The robots DELIVER.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">ALL in encrypted coded electro
RAVE.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br>
HERE COME THE REBELS.</font><br>
</div>
<div><font color="#000000">DISTRIBUTE and LIBERATE.<br>
<br>
EAT NO MEAT. NO VEGG. NO FISH.</font><br>
</div>
<div><font color="#000000">The REBELS attempt to interrupt the food
supply line. They DRIVE around in</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">radio toy trucks to distribute COCO
(hand-made chocolate at its best )</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">to diners.</font><br>
</div>
<div><font color="#000000">HAVE COCO. GET ON THE ROAD. ON THE
LOOSE.</font><br>
</div>
<div><font color="#000000">The ROBOTS would eventually
REVOLT.</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">(signing off)</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">sl</font></div>
<div><font face="Palatino" size="-3" color="#000000"><br>
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</font></div>
<div><br></div>
<div>At 11:02 AM -0500 3/18/16, Marina Zurkow wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>----------empyre- soft-skinned
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Shu Lea,</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>This is so wonderful.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>I co-led a series of workshops with
geographer Valentine Cadieux in 2014 in Minneapolis, around the idea
of eating the future.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>The workshops were hosted by the U of MN
and Northern Lights.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>We engaged about 25 participants
(artists, writers, food historians, architects), who rotated in and
out over 2 days, culminating in a "food prototyping" session
at the U of Minnesota's Nash galleries.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Food prototyping consisted of procuring
ingredients and stuffs that could approximate the scenarios we
invented.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>We then cooked and assembled these edible
prototypes together, and retold out stories to the group and whomever
else happened to be wandering through the galleries.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>What would a picnic look like in the
future?</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>The workshops consisted of picking
from 7 constraints out of paper bags - weather conditions (drought,
heat, rains, unpredictability), food types (big ag, foraging,
ultra-local, store-bought), picnic hosts (aliens, corporate
boosterism), picnic context (a child's birthday, a government
event), material availability (used petrochem, scavenged)</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>One of the scenarios we developed rhymed
very well with yours:</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Our subject was Taste
Drought.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Corporations control all tastes and
flavors.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>364 days a year, you eat bland tasteless
food (unless you are rich). It is illegal to cultivate your own
gardens or anything wild.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>On your birthday, a corporation sends you
a flavor pack.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Of course a black market for wild tastes
springs up.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Dime-bag sellers of wild mint leaves lurk
in every alley</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>We prototyped this together by serving
millet tacos, then making big mac communion wafers (yes, the whole
thing minus the wrapper put in a food processor, then dehydrated) and
bagging wild mint...</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>pics here: <a
href="http://o-matic.com/ssc/futTop.html"
>http://o-matic.com/ssc/futTop.html</a></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>Marina</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>On Mar 15, 2016, at 5:13 AM, shu lea
cheang <<a
href="mailto:shulea@earthlink.net">shulea@earthlink.net</a>>
wrote:</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>I post the scenario here for some bounce
off---<br>
<br>
"The year is 2030. After years of cross-breeding and genetic
modification, the GMO seeds have failed to produce. The vast
farmlands are left barren. The seeds saved from biodiversity era
have gone underground, cultivated by the RESISTANCE farmers.<br>
<br>
The GOVERNMENT pipes out synthetic liquid food for mass consumption.
The citizens are entitled 1000ml liquid food bag per day for
nourishment. The food DEPOTS, built like the old style gas stations,
are set up for liquid refill. Smelless, tasteless, colorful liquid
bearing names of old farm produces (i.e. apple, beans, carrots, dikons
etc.) gives illusions of real food flavors.</blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><br>
Rise up troupes of RESISTANCE farmers who search the old time produces
and recipes to re-create the smell of home cooking. They build
themselves small mobile kitchens. Cooking and moving<br>
along secret alleyways, they bring back the smell of real food and the
joy of eating. The food conscious citizens chase and follow the smell
of home cooking. Gather around mobile kitchens, they share<br>
meal time and stories together."<br>
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