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COMS4208: Praba Pilar technotamaladas
(2024) Pilar, Praba; Buiani, Roberta
A lecture performance by Praba Pilar about her work connecting AI, Food, and the Americas tradition of making tamales as a cherished community activity. Pilar sees the connection between food and technology as a natural one. In fact, cultivating corn in the Americas has involved century old techniques to preserve its nutritional value that have guaranteed the survival of countless populations. In fact, Nixtamalization is a centuries old process in which maize is soaked then cooked with ash or lime high in alkali. It removes almost all fumonisins, resulting in tortillas and other maize based foods being substantially free of these mycotoxins. This event was part of the course COMS 4208 Dreaming of Electric Sheep: Emergent Practices in Communications 1.