>The only thing I enjoy more than making cool stuff is making a decent burrito.
Burritob0t is my thesis project as a graduate student at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), 2012. I made my little bot as a means of exploring my two passions – digital fabrication and good food.
Mexican fast food is emblematic of the assembly line, mass produced era of modern consumables – appropriating the authenticity of the ethnic food sensibility it purports to embody while masquerading as an edible like substance. Because the burrito is a mass market consumable, it lends easily as a way for examining and stimulating discussion on various aspects of the food industry including: how and where our food is grown, methods of production, environmental impact, cultural appropriation and perhaps most importantly – what our food means to us. By parodying the humble burrito’s ingredients and methods of production we can shed light on these exogenous factors and interconnected systems surrounding the simple burrito.
Translation: I know it's pointless but it's ~art~ so you can't criticize me--this isn't meant to do anything important, it's meant to "stimulate discussion".
That sentence, with your snarky punctuation removed, seems perfectly valid to me. What's the problem with someone working on a project just because it's fun?
>The only thing I enjoy more than making cool stuff is making a decent burrito.
Burritob0t is my thesis project as a graduate student at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), 2012. I made my little bot as a means of exploring my two passions – digital fabrication and good food.
Mexican fast food is emblematic of the assembly line, mass produced era of modern consumables – appropriating the authenticity of the ethnic food sensibility it purports to embody while masquerading as an edible like substance. Because the burrito is a mass market consumable, it lends easily as a way for examining and stimulating discussion on various aspects of the food industry including: how and where our food is grown, methods of production, environmental impact, cultural appropriation and perhaps most importantly – what our food means to us. By parodying the humble burrito’s ingredients and methods of production we can shed light on these exogenous factors and interconnected systems surrounding the simple burrito.