PETER KÆRGAARD ANDERSEN
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What the World Eats / Rooibooooit Antecessorem
Experimental Video. Future scenario. Art, science, technology collaboration.
2024
This project developed as part of my research at the S+T+ARTS residency, MUSAE, and exhibition, Future Foodscapes, explores past and contemporary patterns to envision a transformative paradigm in the convergence of technology, agriculture, and the environment. Broadening our consideration of who benefits from our food choices, recognizing our obligation to ensure the care of more-than-human lives and the overall well-being of our planet. The project developed a future scenario ‘What the World Eats’ , that functions as a trajectory additional prototyping collaborations between artits/designers and industry partners. Furthermore the short video work Rooiboooit Antecessorem poetically explores timely and ancestral between robotics, climate, sensoring technologies and biomaterials.
2024
This project developed as part of my research at the S+T+ARTS residency, MUSAE, and exhibition, Future Foodscapes, explores past and contemporary patterns to envision a transformative paradigm in the convergence of technology, agriculture, and the environment. Broadening our consideration of who benefits from our food choices, recognizing our obligation to ensure the care of more-than-human lives and the overall well-being of our planet. The project developed a future scenario ‘What the World Eats’ , that functions as a trajectory additional prototyping collaborations between artits/designers and industry partners. Furthermore the short video work Rooiboooit Antecessorem poetically explores timely and ancestral between robotics, climate, sensoring technologies and biomaterials.
What the World Eats Scenario
In recent decades, the world has been quite literally eating the waste chambers of packaging, plastics, electronic waste, etc. Yet, our reliance on agricultural and ecosystem knowledge, to a larger extent, will rely on digital and technological apparatuses and production methods.
Nothing nutritious will grow in the digital rubbish, nor will anything pollinate in a digital twin; few earthbound intimacies can rummage in the excess work of software and hardware maintenance. We need machines, just as rock-based machines one day will turn to dust and become soil again.
What the World Eats future scenario takes this life span of technological apparatuses seriously and explores the ancestral dimension of imagining agro-technological machines. Not only should it nurture and express gratitude to its predecessor—the Earth, its minerals, and soils — but also to the future generations of life and the potential for differentiation.
If opening up for symbiosis across intergenerational time-space, then what is the agri-technological machinery of the future? Technology begins to assemble life itself. Beings, such as plants, mycelium networks, bacteria, or slime mold are intelligent, sensible, and transport electronic information: with these species we begin to imagine another form of compostable computing. What kind of sensibility do such beings perform? How might this form of sensing provide new imaginaries and roles for the non-human in our food-cultures?
See more on the MUSAE project website, further details on the scenario development here.
Photo to the left made asking midjourney ai what the world eats.
Rooitbooit Antecessorem
Cornfields and drought-stricken landscapes converge in this speculative science fiction short, where a fossil-turned-sensory machine and biorobot explore new futures. The experimental film juxtaposes digital landscapes with archival footage, depicting shifting weather patterns—droughts, storms, cloud formations, celestial winds—alongside scientific deep sea recordings of plastic debris and archival imagery of the machinery of industrial agrilogistics. The soundscape features the Pygmies’ sonic performance, “Women Gathering Mushroom,” resonating with the many non-humans in their forest home, deepening the film's exploration of alternate environmental and technological interconnections.
6 min loop.
Projects
Digital Temporalities / Diorama #1
Print - ongoing trajectory. # Media and memory, digital archives, geology and digitalism.
A Garden - Lines, Traces and Threads
Garden Workshops, art/poetry/essay publication and more. # Gardening, fabulation, fieldwork of lines, onto-sympaties, eros and garden-kinships.
Sea Moon Traveller
Video
# Seaside archives and heritages, memory and landscape, tourists and moths, origin stories, water and life.
Botanical Relics
Tapestries / Installation
# Coastal Landscapes, plant, pathway and industries’ archives.
Shell Time
Video
# Cosmicomics, time and finitudes, shells and seasides.
Facsimile
Textiles, photographies & film. # Urban intercultures, fieldwork, repitition and difference.
Selam Selam / When Stranges Move In
Essayistic documentary, workshops.
# Participatory filmmaking, fieldwork, mobiilty, becoming and identity.
Poster Campaigns
Urban interventions, posters, video & performances.
# Social engaged art, fieldwork, participatory design, street vendors, urban space and play.
The People’s Park / African Cup of Nations
Events, posters, video & performance.
# Social engaged art, fieldwork, football, soap opera, streaming, open air cinema.