Panel / Islands of the Day Before: Artistic Exploration in Post-Anthropocenic Food Ecologies

• Abstract: This panel will explore historical and contemporary engagements of Art that address our relationships with food and the systems that relate to these. In a wide sprawling discourse that intersects augmentation and ecological aesthetics with Art+Science practice, this panel will present a discussion around the plethora of artist’s work that creates cross-bindings and transdisciplinary approaches between the different topics of post-agriculture, post-growth and molecular cooking. The discussion aims to create new thoughts on food systems through artistic research that addresses topics of scale and scope in the Post-Anthropocenic era, micro to macro sub-connectivities in ecological systems, post-nature ideologies, microbial and fungal remedies and molecular transitions in human and non-human bodily encounters.  

• Biography: Julian Stadon is an artist, designer, curator, researcher, and educator. His nomadic practice-based research interfaces art, bio-digital entanglements, identity, embodied interactivity, food ecologies, sustainability, culture and society. His PhD examines Post-Biological Identity and Augmentation Aesthetics through the Data Body Trader project, his establishment of The Mixed and Augmented Reality Art Organisation and the iterative processes, outcomes and conclusions resulting from those endeavours. Stadon has presented and his work and been academically active for nearly twenty years across five continents and currently teaches on the Interface Cultures program at Kunstuniversität Linz. He also runs an experimental agriculture project TeleAgriCulture and often works with Stadtwerkstatt, V2_, Donautics and Schwemmland.

This panel is supported by MAX (Makers’ eXchange) project, a pilotpolicy project co-funded by the European Union.http://makersxchange.eu/