Virtual Realty Exhibit Blends Art And Food At Miami Art Week 2022 - NBC 6 South Florida

A one-of-a-kind mixed-reality eating acquisition is unfastened to the nationalist astatine Superblue Miami during this year's Art Week.

Aerobanquets RMX combines creation and gastronomy to supply a unsocial culinary acquisition featuring a paper by a Michelin-starred chef.

In groups of up to 16, guests participate a abstraction designed by Italian interdisciplinary creator Mattia Casalegno that "evokes a eating country acceptable successful the future."

Wearing Meta VR headsets, guests embark connected a virtual world travel narrated by Top Chef's Gail Simmons, portion eating from a specially created paper of amuse-bouches by Chef Chintan Pandya. Pandya is simply a Michelin-starred, James Beard Award-winning cook from New York’s apical restaurants Semma, Dhamaka, and Adda.

Complete with regular and vegan options, the paper features dishes specified arsenic a “mousse of roasted hopes,” “a pearl that tastes similar the archetypal clip you ever spot your lip,” and a tart that evokes the “whistle that the upwind makes done a doorway fastener connected a acold autumn afternoon.”

"It was magical," 1 impermanent tells NBC 6. "It was conscionable truthful bonzer to suffer oneself successful thing that is truthful acquainted but to bring this constituent of enigma to thing we bash each time without thinking."

Presented by Meta Open Arts, Aerobanquets RMX was created successful 2018 arsenic a mode to uniquely prosecute each of the senses, according to Superblue. 

Casalegno says the multi-sensory acquisition is inspired by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s "The Futurist Cookbook," a 1932 postulation of surreal recipes and proclamations astir the aboriginal of food.

“In 1932, The Futurist Cookbook proposed an antidote to the panic of the analyzable clime astatine the time, by encouraging optimism astatine the meal table," said Superblue Senior Curator Kathleen Forde. "In 2022, it is our joyousness to bring Aerobanquets RMX to Superblue to punctual that tone again, yet with a multisensory, mixed-reality twist."

The mixed-reality acquisition is designed to bring creation and nutrient into a caller magnitude by combining virtual world with good dining.

“How bash you visualize taste? What is the signifier of spice? What is the colour of flavor?" asks Casalegno. "I conceived Aerobanquets RMX as a full feast for the senses, a multisensory journey, a instrumentality to reprogram each our perceptive expectations."

Casalegno hopes that anyone who participates successful the task "will beryllium much unfastened and receptive to the complexity and quality of the flavors, colors, smells, sounds, and feelings nutrient tin arouse."

Produced by Flavor Five Studio, the acquisition is unrecorded from Nov. 28 to Dec. 4, and tickets scope from $58 to $200 per person, depending connected the clip of day. Tickets are connected merchantability present at superblue.com/aero.

Kelly Blanco takes america wrong Aerobanquets RMX astatine Superblue, an creation and culinary acquisition that has made its mode to South Florida.