Federico Poni
Federico Poni
The Sacred Pizza and the Abominable Platforms
ISBN 9791220093477
I wanted to investigate the material, social, symbolic, and ideological relations in the food delivery world, an anthropology study based on the poems/reviews written by the users on a famous food delivery platform. The angriest and worst reviews from the UK have generated this book.
The Sacred Pizza and the Abominable Platforms is an algorithmic-assisted curated collection of text and images taken from food delivery platforms. Reviews and pictures are presented in different configurations through the pages, from bold critical slogans to hypnotizing alimentary compositions.
Taking off from Marvin Harris’ Good to Eat: Riddles of Food and Culture, the book proposes an hyronic AI-powered excursus on food delivery dynamics by scraping data from their platforms, shifting the geographical paradigm of Harris’ original with the cultural potpourri of the digital non-place.
A self-fascinated compendium of frustration formalized in quilted images, mantra-like rants and data-driven poetic endeavors as a bequest for future anthropologists and gastronomists.
Federico Poni
Federico Poni (b. 1996, Pavia, IT) is an artist / cyborg / pizzaiolo / web architect / net urbanist / student / teacher / copy-paste champion / garden lover / dead mouse / musician / alive pigeon / accelerationist / precarious / anarcho-defeatist / professional frier / wizard / minister / publisher / friend of machines / enemy of ASCII
Its practice is a slalom between performance, critical coding, games, sound design, post-photography and writing with the main focus on speculative disciplines and semiotic reflections. Always interested in the relations between humans and devices, It tries to imagine new ecosystems to dwell together and detourn the meaning of acceleration and deceleration.
Nowadays It is busy with the role of Minister of Infrastructure in Habitat, a permanent cult(r)ural settlement and collective workshop carrying participatory practices of living (and publishing) within and beyond the local scale, based in Tredozio, in Romagna toscana area.
Poni’s works have been shown/proposed at/for, among others, S/ash Gallery, Rotterdam; Overkill, Enschede; The Photographers’ Gallery, London; Gogbot, Enschede; Meet, Milano; ZineCamp, Rotterdam; Tecart, Rotterdam; Post-Screen; Centrale Festival, Fano; Szene Zeigen, Laucha (DE); Anteo Palazzo del Cinema, Milano.
