Selected Work: Ghost Food
GhostFood explores eating in a future of biodiversity loss brought on by climate change. The GhostFood mobile food trailer serves scent-food pairings that are consumed by the public using a wearable device that adapts human physiology to enable taste experiences of unavailable foods. Inspired by insect physiology (insects use their antennae to smell and thus navigate their world) and long-standing human traditions of technological extension of the senses, the device inserts direct olfactory stimulation into the eating experience. Scents of foods threatened by climate change are paired with foods made from climate change-resilient foodstuffs, to provide the taste illusions of foods that may soon no longer be available. GhostFood staff serve the public, guiding visitors through this pre-nostalgic experience, and engaging dialogue.
Miriam Simun makes creative disruptions: objects, documents and experiences that that poke, provoke, and re-imagine existing systems. Based in scientific, historical and ethnographic research, much of her work interrogates the implications of socio-technical and ecological change.
Simun’s work has been presented internationally, including the Museum of Arts and Design, Rauschenberg Project Space, Ronald Feldman Gallery, Postmasters Gallery, Kappatos Gallery and the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. Her work has been supported by Creative Capital, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and recognized internationally in publications including the BBC, New York Times, CBC, MTV, The New Yorker, Forbes, Art21 and ARTNews. Simun holds a bachelors degree from the London School of Economics and a masters degree in Interactive Telecommunications from NYU.
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