Markéta Dolejšová

making and using DIY tools for everyday food science
Singapore (residence), Czech Republic (citizenship) °1986
affiliation: National University of Singapore
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Markéta Dolejšová is a Ph.D. researcher at National University of Singapore (Communication and New Media Department), where she writes about diet customization through DIY powdered foods. Within her thesis, she studies communities of citizens gathered around soylent powdered food replacements and looks at dietary sensitivities of time-poor consumers residing in busy cities. Her overall interest is in DIY hacker & maker style food practices and emerging R&D initiatives focused on various issues in food studies. This focus on food practices stems from her long-term passion for posthuman phantasies, everyday cyborgs, and various strategies of DIY self-enhancement that she sees as directly related to what we eat (her MA is on "Posthuman tendencies in performance art"). Apart from school activities, she is active as food designer and tinkerer obsessed with electrified carrots (hotkarot.cz), open source sauces (streetsauce.cz) and cloudy fermented jars (foodguthub.github.io). 

research

research expositions

  • A taste of big data on the global dinner table (2015) author(s): Markéta Dolejšová published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    This exposition discusses artistic appropriations of issues related to the contemporary global food agenda and the possible impact of these interventions on the public’s food-related mindset. It begins with an overview of some of the most pressing concerns about the current state of global food production and continues by discussing how these concerns are affected by social networking technologies and online collaborations. Social initiatives and food activists, as well as artists and designers, have become interested in communal bottom-up efforts to refine the global flow of food commodities. The second chapter of this exposition discusses recent examples of contemporary food art/design works. Beside a theoretical overview, the author presents her own food art/design project ‘HotKarot & OpenSauce’ and offers an insight into the field from the perspective of a researcher-as-practitioner. The exposition aims to raise important questions about the potential of participatory art/design initiatives and critically address current global food issues, hence supporting consumers’ general awareness of what ends up on their plates, how it gets there, and under what circumstances.
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