Moving Image, Technologies and Ecologies of Food Regimes

拟议的博士项目通过使用动态图像来调查工业食品制度中技术和生态之间的交叉点。这篇基于实践的论文通过三个案例分析批判性地分析了当前的技术科学解决方案：-生产：温室自动化和农业成像技术。-分销：黑暗厨房，数据凝视，以及平台经济中的食物流通。-消费：对食物、细胞农业和未来食物的感知和表现。我的研究项目将借鉴哈丽特·弗里德曼的“粮食制度”概念，该概念研究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。通过实验电影制作实践，我将研究图像制作在食品部门中的作用，看看新的视觉和视觉食品制度的出现。-生产：温室自动化和农业成像技术第一部分着眼于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：当代温室是否可以被理解为视觉生产与农业生产无法区分的电影装置？温室被理解为演员，作为机械建筑，其中超过人类的实体-动物，植物，机器人，多隧道，种植灯和传感器-形成一个复杂的技术网格；在那里，摄像机产生数据集来调节蔬菜和水果的生长。根据“操作图像”的概念，我将介绍机器视觉的实现和一种新的基于图像的收获：数据收获。-分销：黑暗厨房，数据凝视，以及平台经济中的食物流通。第二部分将通过对伦敦市黑暗厨房集群及其周围环境的观察，研究城市环境中食品配送技术的扩散。“黑暗厨房”、“幽灵厨房”或“云厨房”是指配备工业厨房的集装箱，由外卖公司在城市的战略区域临时设立。随着外卖需求的增加，不稳定的骑手在这些临时厨房周围激增。相应的动态图像工作将重点揭示这些“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”如何干预廉价食品分配的安排？我们如何通过电影制作的实践来揭示其机制？数据收集的策略正在促进食品配送公司的逐步扩张，使其超越最初的使命，将食品变成数据金融化的借口。-消费：对食物的感知和表现；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所起的作用，描绘出创新对“未来食品”领域的影响。我将借鉴Guattari的“心理生态学”概念，以探索食物感知与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，分析食品商品通过图像制作获得“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。由此产生的作品将包括对当前食品形式和材料转变的美学探索。

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.