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Take a part in this culinary party!!! Send us your recipe and in September 2000 you can see your food being recreated during the live transmitted party in two locations simultaneously: in ROXY, Czech Republic, and one London location.Food is the most material thing imaginable, it is perceived and valued on the basis of stimulation of all of our senses => SIGHT, HEARING, TOUCH, TASTE and SMELL. Even it is so essential we often forget its significancy - how many symbols, cultural signs and stories it carries. The COOKING project, the process of collecting the recipes and recreating food according to them should alegorise experience with information and telepresence of new media. A RECIPE is an abstract form of the food, the way of its immortality. The participant of this project sends the recipe via computer where it is transpormed into binary units and after that it becomes readible email again. Later evolves in food.
The recipe obtained through internet carries none of celebrated values or certificate of rightness, nor confirmation of being "truthful". It can happen to be a fiction, a dream, a wish, an experiment or a set of instructions that can not be realised because of technical problems (if the process of cooking doesn't continue as described) or misundertandings (mistakes made by transmission of abstract form of the food - the information). Cooking with these recipes is a magic recreation - fullfilment of the imaginary. The final product is a VERSION of the intended food (the suthenticity of this version depends on how succesful was the food's transmission in the form of recipe) and can go through the confrontation with the original author via live transmission streaming the party where participiants consume the results of the whole process.
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