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RICARDO DOMINGUEZ + MOLECULAR CUISINE: THE POLITICS OF TASTE (DINNER)

DIANE LUDIN 13 FEBRUARY 2015
SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS, NEW YORK
ART|SCI CENTER RETROSPECTIVE
Molecular Cuisine: the Politics
15 JANUARY 2015 of Taste was an interdisciplinary
CNSI ART|SCI GALLERY conference focusing on desire’s palette.
Investigating the importance of taste
January 2015 marked the anniversary of from the perspectives of the culinary
the Art|Sci Center’s founding 10 years arts, sociology, art history and theory,
ago, and the launch of our year-long anthropology, as well as the cognitive,
celebration. We invited the public to material and biological sciences, the
join Art|Sci Collective in looking back symposium targeted intersections between
through the prolific decade and looking taste and value. While taste is the key
forward to the next. Sketches for future concept in new cooking technologies,
projects intermingled with presentations it also connects to our passions,
from memorable Art|Sci exhibitors, predilections and taboos. Researchers
constructing a dynamic picture of the from the scientific and cultural spheres
center’s continuing quest to promote asked the questions on why we enjoy
“the third culture” between art and certain foods and not others, why we
science. prefer certain styles and not others.
By involving multiple discourses which
In celebration of the Art|Sci Center’s emphasize the senses, emotions and
10 years of promoting collaborative, sensory assets, the concept of taste—
interdisciplinary exhibitions, lectures, which is traditionally one pertaining to
installations, and curricula, this the fine arts or humanities—developed
event included a LASER which featured a renewed relevance in current cultural
presentations from Art|Sci affiliates of debates.
years past and years future. Presenters
included sound artist Maciej Ozog,
Professor of Biological Chemistry Dr.
Lenny Rome (UCLA), Executive Director of
the UCLA Confucius Institute Susan Jane,
Professor of Arts Activism Dr. David
Gere (UCLA), Curator and Co-founder of
Mindshare LA Dougie Campbell, and artist
and lecturer Jim Barry (CalTech).

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