Moving Image, Technologies and Ecologies of Food Regimes

食品制度的动态图像、技术和生态

• 批准号: 2605536
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Goldsmiths University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2605536
• 关键词: Moving; Image; Technologies; Ecologies; Food

The proposed doctoral project investigates the intersections between technology and ecology in industrial food regimes, through the use of moving image. This practice-based thesis critically analyses current technoscientific solutions drawing on three case studies: - Production: Automation in greenhouses and imaging technologies in agrilogistics. - Distribution: Dark Kitchens, Data Gaze, and circulation of food within the platform economy. - Consumption: Perception and representation of food, cellular agriculture, and future foods. My research project will draw on Harriet Friedman's notion of 'food regime', which examines the strategic role of agriculture and food production in shaping the world capitalist economy. Through an experimental filmmaking practice, I will examine the role of image production within the food sector, looking at the emergence of new visual and scopic food regimes. - Production: Automation in greenhouses and imaging technologies in agrilogistics The first section looks at contemporary high-tech greenhouses in one of the largest agro-food clusters of Europe. Through the making of an experimental film, I will speculate around the following question: Can contemporary greenhouses be understood as cinematic devices where visual production becomes indistinguishable from agricultural production? Greenhouses are understood as actors, as machinic architectures where more-than-human entities -animals, plants, robots, polytunnels, grow lights, and sensors- form a complex technological mesh; where video cameras produce datasets to regulate the growth of vegetables and fruits. Drawing on the notion of 'operational image', I will look at the implementation of machine vision and the introduction of a new kind of image-based harvesting: data harvesting. - Distribution: Dark Kitchens, Data Gaze, and circulation of food within the platform economy. The second section will look at the proliferation of food delivery technologies in urban contexts, through the observation of dark kitchen clusters and their surroundings in the city of London. Dark, ghost, or cloud kitchens are shipping containers equipped with industrial kitchens and temporarily set up by food delivery companies in strategic areas of the city. With the increasing demand for food delivery, precarious riders proliferate around these temporary kitchens. The corresponding moving image work will focus on revealing the material infrastructures behind these 'lean platforms', questioning the alleged immateriality of digital networks and cloud interfaces. How does the "Data Gaze" interfere in the arrangement of cheap food distribution? How can we reveal its mechanisms through the practice of filmmaking? Strategies for data harvesting are fostering the progressive expansion of food delivery corporations beyond their original mission, turning food into a subterfuge for the financialization of data. - Consumption: Perception and representation of food; cellular agriculture and future foods.This section will chart the impact of innovations in the 'future foods' sector by examining the role of technology in recent developments of plant-based meat alternatives, cellular agriculture, and microbial- based proteins. I will draw on Guattari's notion of 'mental ecology' in order to explore the relationships between food perception, and the ecological and technological chains that precede it. On the one hand, I will look at the advertising sector, analyzing the ways in which food commodities acquire 'palatability' through image production. On the other, I will film a number of corporate innovation projects such as cellular agriculture and 3D printed meat startups. The resulting work will consist of an aesthetic exploration of the current formal and material transformations of food products.

拟议的博士项目调查技术和生态之间的交叉点，在工业食品制度，通过使用移动图像。这篇以实践为基础的论文批判性地分析了当前的技术科学解决方案，并借鉴了三个案例研究：生产：温室自动化和农业物流中的成像技术。- 分布：黑暗Kitterfly，数据凝视，以及平台经济中的食物流通。- 消费：对食品、细胞农业和未来食品的感知和表现。我的研究项目将借鉴哈里特弗里德曼的“粮食制度”的概念，该概念考察了农业和粮食生产在塑造世界资本主义经济中的战略作用。通过一个实验性的电影制作实践，我将研究图像制作在食品行业中的作用，研究新的视觉和视觉食品制度的出现。- 生产：温室自动化和农业物流中的成像技术第一部分介绍了欧洲最大的农业食品集群之一的当代高科技温室。通过制作一部实验电影，我将围绕以下问题进行思考：当代温室能否被理解为视觉生产与农业生产难以区分的电影设备？温室被理解为演员，作为机器架构，其中超过人类的实体-动物，植物，机器人，polytunnels，生长灯和传感器-形成复杂的技术网络;摄像机产生数据集来调节蔬菜和水果的生长。借鉴“操作图像”的概念，我将研究机器视觉的实现和引入一种新的基于图像的收获：数据收获。- 分布：黑暗Kitterfly，数据凝视，以及平台经济中的食物流通。第二部分将通过观察伦敦市的黑暗厨房集群及其周围环境，来探讨食品配送技术在城市环境中的扩散。黑暗厨房、幽灵厨房或云厨房是配备工业厨房的集装箱，由食品配送公司在城市的战略地区临时设立。随着食品配送需求的增加，这些临时厨房周围的危险骑手激增。相应的移动图像工作将专注于揭示这些“精益平台”背后的物质基础设施，质疑所谓的数字网络和云接口的非物质性。“数据凝视”如何干预平价食品配送安排？如何通过电影制作实践揭示其机制？收集数据的战略正在促使食品配送公司逐步扩张，超越其最初的使命，将食品变成数据金融化的借口。- 消耗：食品的感知和表征;细胞农业和未来食品。本节将通过研究技术在植物性肉类替代品、细胞农业和微生物蛋白质的最新发展中的作用，绘制“未来食品”领域创新的影响。我将借鉴Guattari的“心理生态学”概念，探讨食物感知与其之前的生态和技术链之间的关系。一方面，我将着眼于广告部门，分析食品商品通过形象生产获得“适口性”的方式。另一方面，我将拍摄一些企业创新项目，如细胞农业和3D打印肉类创业公司。由此产生的工作将包括对食品当前形式和物质转变的美学探索。