[-empyre-] future scenario workshops and the imagination

[shu lea cheang]

hi, all

For myself working with robot sex life/after life and retro-future, 
I dont mean to lead us into our love/hate trauma with machine and 
human. The DRIVE BY DINING scenario was written in 2002 when 
802.11/WLAN network was made accessible for commercial distribution 
(officially dated 1999). The airspace, the bandwidth were up for grab 
both for the commercial sectors and  free public wifi activists.
The project celebrated wifi access and anticipated the 
surveillace/tracking of citizens of current days.
My own argument has always been more about countering the corporate 
and government control of the 'system. '

I have employed the future scenarion to engage public participation. 
I would like to divert us back a bit  (if possible) to the discussion 
about food system and participation. Also to bring back the valid 
concerns from Nicole J. Caruth's posting -

"As I think about racism in the food system, and the ongoing impact 
of urban redlining on food distribution and consumption, it's been 
interesting to read the recent posts on food mapping. I wonder if any 
of these projects have revealed food disparities relating to race? If 
so, how are artists presenting or addressing this information?"

thanks
sl


At 3:22 PM +0000 3/25/16, Renate Terese Ferro wrote:
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>Dear Shu Lea, Amanda, and all,
>Shu Lea wrote:
><snip>
>
>WE  CONTROL THE FOOD. WE CONTROL YOU.
>SERVICE STATIONS are set up to pipeline STANDARD meals-
>EAT.
>MEAT. VEGG. FISH.
>
>This is the year 2030 .
>No one SERVES.
>The government  supplies ROBOT service in dining  facilities.
>the ROBOTS DELIVER.
>
>In the wasteland of wireless dis-connection,
>What is left is encrypted, coded electronic sound beeps.
>TRANSMIT and ABSORB.
>The diners ORDER. The robots DELIVER.
>ALL in encrypted coded electro RAVE.
><snip>
>
>
>
>Ha!  Shu Lea have you been in the new "updated" Newark International 
>Airport?   The poetic description surprisingly sounds like 2016. 
>Where seating for weary travelers once existed there are "food bars" 
>that have been installed in the center of the airport walkways 
>between GATES.  Sequences of Individual kiosks are perched rather 
>high off the ground to enable the traveler to be seated, punch in 
>her food order to an automatized server, payment is required via 
>card before the food is served including tip which is automatically 
>included, and then finally the food is brought forth.  The 
>experience is not human to human but human to machine.  The sense of 
>sharing a meal with a another human is not possible because of the 
>singularity of the designed seating and ordering unit.
>
>Yes 2016. Renate
>
>On 3/19/16, 6:05 AM, "empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on 
>behalf of shu lea cheang" 
><empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au on behalf of 
>shulea at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
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