If you google „biodata in art“, you get the bio of Art Garfunkel as a second result. This finding is inherently symbolic. In the current „big bio“ age, we are witnessing a fierce spread of new terms, forms and neologisms. After the „post-everything“ era, the another prefix hype has come: people are seen as bunches of biodata, crawling in the streets of biopolis, broadcasting the streams of measurable biosignals. Should we start to live a biolife and become biohumans (especially when the term posthuman failed and mere human is not enough)? Nevertheless, this question seems to be wrongly posed and we should rather ask: Why? What’s the point of it? We, the HotKarot group, are sometimes called bioartist, biohackers, foodhackers, biofabbers...the labels are chasing us, although we originally started our carrot activities more or less as an irresistibly amusing joke. Through the course of time, however, we became accustomed to this language and the notion of ubiquitous uncertainty, randomness and loosely defined quintessence started to be a fundamental building stone of our vegetable praxis. We are actually enjoying it - we have been consciously contributing to this niche culture, surfing on the waves of the infinite openness. However, we have also realized that the breeding ground of our carrot field is staring to be too muddy and there is a potential danger of sinking. Following our HotKarot Riot performance, given on the Enter festival a night before this talk, we would like to open a more general discussion about the nature of such artistic bio-interventions. Starting with a presentation of our own projects, we hope to resonate with the other like-minded festival participants and create a platform for a debate about the more deep and undercover nature of this bio-uncertainty as a process and not just as a superficial concept.

1. HOTKAROT
LOST IN BIOPOLIS

3. PERFORMANCE
CRITICAL DESIGN
FAST FOOD
SOCIAL EXPERIMENT
MEDIUMHACKTIVISM
CARROT IN A
BREADROLL
FOOD HACKING
MASHUP GAME
HYBRID ORGANISM
MUTANT
MESS
(BIO)TECHNOLOGY
EXPERIMENTAL
GASTRONOMY
COMMUNICATION
TOOL

4. REVERSE HACK OF A TRADITION
STRANGE

6. INFINITE UNIVERSE OF HACKS
HOTKAROT AS A
MEDIUM:

7. IDEAS // HACKS // PROJECTS

8. I. MOBILE FOOD STALL IN THE
STREETS

9. POP-UP EATERY
EVERYDAY AT A DIFFERENT PLACE
BRINGING DIVERSITY INTO THE STREETS
CONNECTING CITY OVER FOOD
CITY AS AN ORGANISM - MOBILE FOOD STALL AS
ENERGY DELIVERY SYSTEM
POLICY, PROTOCOL, REGULATIONS -> FAIL

10. II. (ILLEGAL) NOMADIC KITCHEN

14. INTERACTION OF
BIOORGANISMS

15. COMMUNAL COOKING IN BIOPOLIS

16. COMMUNAL TASTING

17. COMMUNAL DIGESTING

18. KNOWLEDGE SHARING

19. RADICAL
OPENNESS

20. III. OPEN SAUCE

22. OPENSAUCE - CONNECTING STREET
AND CYBERSPACE
ALTERNATIVE ONLINE REPOSITORY
OF SAUCE RECIPES
DATABASE OF HACKABLE DATA

24. OPEN SAUCE ZEN
COLOURS OF INGREDIENTS
-
COLOUR OF SAUCE

25. TECHNO-EMOTIONAL CUISINE

27. #EAT YOUR TWEET
TWEETS ->
COLOURS OF INGREDIENTS ->
SAUCE
BIODATA VS. DATABIO:
COOKING THE REAL ORGANIC
SAUCE FROM ANORGANIC DATA
SAMPLED FROM TWITTER

28. HOTKAROT
SONIFICATION

29. HOTKAROT
RESISTANCE
CARROT BIOELECTRIC
RESISTANCE TRANSFERRED
INTO THE NOISE

30. HOTKAROT
RIOT
OPENSAUCE ZEN + EAT YOUR
TWEET + HOTKAROT RESISTANCE
CLOSING THE CIRCLE

31. CARROTS BIOSIGNALS -> DIGITAL DATA IN OPENSAUCE ->
ORGANIC SAUCE - > HUMAN STOMACH -> ETC...
CARROTS COOK THE SAUCE, NOT YOU (WE)
MULTISENSORIAL EXPERIENCE:
TOUCHING -LISTENING - WATCHING - SMELLING - TASTING

32. INTERPRETATIVE MAZE
CRITICAL DESIGN
VEGGIE REVOLUTION
MOBILE FOOD
URBAN CONCEPT
PUBLIC INTERVENTION
DIY/DIWO PRAXIS
HACKING&MAKING
CITIZEN SCIENCE
FOOD HACKINGBIOHACKING
BIOART
PERFORMANCE
HACKTIVISM
EXPERIMENTAL
GASTRONOMY
(BIO)TECHNOLOGY
MASHUP
CATERING
PRANK
WEIRD CHEFS
INTERACTIVE ART
LIVING CITY
R&D
TRANS-SPECIES COMMUNICATION
CITIZEN SCIENCE
PARTICIPATORY
CITIZENSHIP
FABBING

33. …ISN’T IT JUST A PIECE OF HOT VEGETABLE STUCK IN A
PIECE OF PASTRY?

35. HOW LONG CAN WE SURVIVE FROM BIO-METAPHORS?