visual communication practice
Webpage
Description of idea
Describe your idea and concept of your work in relation to the
festival outlines:
Brain has developed as an organ to help us fill the stomach. A lonely stomach hunting and gathering in the savannah has less chance to survive than a group of them, so the societies have developed.
So, the content of the stomachs must mirror the structure of the society - what are the preferred foods for authoritarian regimes and what for democracies?
We took all of the recipes from Food.com and democracy indexes of The Economist and Wikipedia; we linked national cooking recipes with the countries, split recipes into ingredients and added democracy indexes to them.
What kind of communication approach do you use?
Spoof scientific report on real data.
What are in your opinion concrete benefits to the society because of
your communication?
To see have very sweet life in democracy really is.
What did you personally learn from creating your submitted
work?
Person should choose their restaurant even more carefully than the country.
Why is your work, GOOD communication
WORK?
It's fun getting the food for thought.
Where and how do you intent do implement your
work?
Web page for now; interactive application if resources allow.
Did your intervention had an effect on other Media. If yes, describe
the effect? (Has other media reported on it- how? Were you able to change
other media with your work-
how?)
Not yet. This project was done for Memefest exclusively.
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Jason Grant
Entry details
Title
Eat for democracy!
Headline
Some foods are more democratic than others
Concept author(s)
Miha Mazzini
Concept author year(s) of birth
1961
Concept author(s) contribution
concept & text
Country
Slovenia
Copy author(s)
Miha Mazzini
Copy author(s) year(s) of birth
1961
Copy author(s) contribution
concept & text
Country
Slovenia
Other author(s)
Marko Plahuta
Other author(s) year(s) of birth
1969
Other author(s) contribution
data analysis & programing
Country
Slovenia
Competition category
visual communication practice
Competition subcategory
web / interactive
Competition field
nonacademic
Competition subfield
artist
Subfield description
Writer, author of 27 published books, translated in 9 languages. Screenwriter of 2 award winning feature films and writer and director of 5 short films.
"...[an] onion is on the boundary between democracy and authoritarianism". I've long suspected as much!
It's hard to know if this whole project is a joke, or just parts of it, but the idea of visually demonstrating the correlation between the preferred foods of authoritarian regimes and democracies is great.
The trick is that even if the 'research' is bogus (linking recipes from Food.com and democracy indexes of The Economist and Wikipedia), it is plausible, and more than that, I wondered why it hasn't been done before.
Even if it was fully serious, I'm not sure what its point would be, but it's definitely an engaging perspective on food. Food and culture and politics...
The image itself is typical of generic data visualisations, so although it's not especially interesting it at least looks the part. An interactive application would really open this up to a broad audience – I hope you can get there.
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