Will Work For Food At Dock 18 Zurich
work for food or should we say “cooked with food and entertained by roboters. Mario Purkathofer
Das kurze Glück Presiverleihung
tatsächlich gibt´s Bilder von der feierlichen Übergabe, als ich Dich und das Projekt kurz vorstellte.
Auch in der Doku is eine kurze Sequenz. Siehe hier:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzSm1QP8NAQ
Das Robotterchen hat am Mittwoch bei Der Langen Nacht des Kurzen Glücks im Rotem Salon um 23 Uhr seinen Besitzer gewechselt.
Es wurden viele kurze Berlin-Filme gezeigt und zwischendurch die Auslosung gemacht. 10 Gewinner wurden am Sonntag geehrt. Das Maschinchen lag im Korb eines Menschen, den ich für kunstbegabt halte.
Matthias Groll
www.daskurzeglueck.de
www.interfilm.de
Read Wine, Cheese, Bread and Cake
Matthias Reichelt brought a nice collection of red wine, cheese, bread and a cake. He will use the robot as a wedding gift. 
1. Castillo Murviedro 2005 Valencia, Spain (Red) Dry nose. Fresh and fruity, sweet tannins, prunes, vanilla, spicy.
2. Gruyère is sweet but slightly salty, with a flavor that varies widely with age.
3. Gres des Vosges is a traditional soft-ripened, washed rind cheese. It is a true farmhouse delight.
4. The Moosbacher cheese owes its uniqueness to a double ripening process.
5. Sourdough (or, more formally, natural leaven or levain) refers to the process of leavening bread by capturing wild yeasts in a dough or batter, as opposed to using a domestic, purpose-cultured yeast such as Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
6. Panettone is a typical bread of Milan, usually prepared and enjoyed for Christmas and New Year around Italy, and one of the symbols of the city.
Tesco Style Food
Elvina wants to have a robot. She sent a paket with nice looking Tesco products. Read what she wrote:
its a credit crunch parcel!
might be better to look at than eat!
Tesco plc is a British-based international grocery and general merchandising retail chain. It has the largest British retailer by both global sales and domestic market share with profits exceeding £2 billion. Orange jelly cost 1p more than red jelly.
In 2008, Tesco became the world’s fourth largest retailer, the first movement among the top five since 2003. Originally specialising in food and drink, it has diversified into areas such as clothing, consumer electronics, consumer financial services, retailing and renting DVDs, CDs, music downloads, Internet service, consumer telecoms, consumer health insurance, consumer dental plans and software.
Falafel connection: Live from Berlin
KHJOctober 23rd, 2008 Istanbul
Monday, October 20, 2008
By KRISTEN STEVENS
ISTANBUL - Turkish Daily News
ISTANBUL - Turkish Daily News
Dozens of people gathered Saturday evening in a Galata restaurant to learn to make falafel with a twist: The chef was projected large and wizard-like over their heads via the Internet live from Berlin.
Julie Upmeyer and her “Virtual Chef” initiative held their borderless feast at Güney Restaurant, one of 40 venues that hosted events this weekend as part of this year’s art festival Visibility Project in Istanbul’s Galata neighborhood.
Upmeyer said she was amazed by the way cooking brought people together. “Chefs from the Güney kitchen worked side-by-side with Virtual Chef guests to fry falafel balls, while Galata locals were speaking live with our chef in Berlin in Turkish, English and German.”
Hoping to open people’s eyes to the “unseen,” the one-day fest combined everything from art exhibits in teahouses to oddball performances on sidewalks. In this respect, Virtual Chef’s connection to a chef in Germany, who had sourced his ingredients in exchange for providing a service, certainly suited the vision of the festival.
The story behind the dish
The project began when chef Karl Heinz Jeron sent the group a list of ingredients to collect for the meal. As they searched for the ingredients, the participants met people and explored places and shops new to them. While watching each other via a live media stream on Internet TV, Jeron shared with them the story behind his version of the falafel.
His project “Will Work For Food” explores the labor and barter economy. During the project, he provided small robotic vehicles that traded their manpower for food. The vehicles can draw and whistle. In exchange for a bit of food, people borrowed the vehicles to serve their needs. He received lentils, flour, arugula salad, garlic, lemon and some spices and herbs.
That’s when a falafel recipe came to Jeron’s mind. He customized the recipe, replacing the chickpeas with lentils and adding flour to make the dough a bit more solid. After practicing for some time, he agreed to join Virtual Chef and share the fruits of his barter.
A native of Detroit, Michigan, Upmeyer said food was universal and commonplace, though ultimately quite personal. “Eating is the closest connection our body has to the outside world.”
Julie Upmeyer caravansarai.info@gmail.com or julie@active-ingredient.net