Duration: 4 days
Data Collected: During a university field trip to New York I challenged myself to eat as much as I could. I then photographed and recorded the calorific content of everything I ate.
Objectives: Having not visited New York before, I decided to undertake this challenge because I had heard so many reports of the amazing variety, and quantity, of food available. I did not have a clear idea of what I would do with the data, but I wanted to experiment with what sort of effect the process might have on my body. I weighed myself before and after I went and gained just 400 grams.
Outcomes: The 34 photographs and the other data collected were eventually made into a web-based artwork, in which each of the images was hosted on a different web server around the world. The images were also made into a high-speed animation.
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