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Neuro Umami / The Quantum Table
Book and photographs
Technical details:
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Year: 2026
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Genre: Magazine / AI Photobook
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Presentations: Madrid, Barcelona, and Girona; in Cadaqués with Margarita Aizpuru
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Where to find it: MACBA bookstore, Barcelona "Rosa Brugat presents her magazine Neuro Umami / The Quantum Table" - MAV, 2026
Description
"Neuro UMAMI / The Quantum Table" is a magazine that envisions the cuisine of the future, once humanity has adapted to living on other planets. It is crafted with striking and poetic images generated by artificial intelligence.
In a not-so-distant future, when we inhabit other planets, we will no longer eat to survive: we will eat to transform ourselves. The body will cease to be a boundary and become an interface, while cuisine will leave behind fire and recipes to evolve into code, cultivation, and mutation. We will discard nostalgia for our origins. Earth will no longer be the sole fertile ground: we will cultivate vertically, in orbit, within artificial atmospheres where roots no longer reach downward, but float.
Food will grow suspended in spectral-light chambers, sustained by synthesized minerals and bacteria programmed to alter not only taste, but also perception, memory, and emotional state.
Umami will no longer be merely a flavor: it will be a neural architecture. A frequency capable of triggering nonexistent memories, engineered emotions, and new forms of shared consciousness. Eating will be downloading experiences, upgrading the organism, and reconfiguring human sensitivity to extraterrestrial environments.



