Feed Me A Story

Feed Me a Story is a collaboration created by Theresa Loong and Laura Nova that works on intergenerational projects focusing on the elderly and other communities that are underserved and overlooked by mainstream media. We are inspired by two of the oldest interactive experiences – eating and talking. The team has partnered with several arts and cultural institutions in New York City, launching events at the Ellis Island National Historic Site, Governors Island LMCC Swing Space, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Chinese in America, the Museum at Eldridge Street, Children’s Museum of the Arts and as SPARC artists with the LaGuardia Senior Center. Feed Me a Story received funding from the New York State Council for the Arts, the National Endowment of the Arts, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and the Department of Cultural Affairs. PBS/POV selected Feed Me a Story to participate in two hackathons to develop our app. We performed at LMCC’s Lent Space, the New Museum’s Ideas City Festival and the Asian American Arts Alliance’s Locating the Sacred Arts Festival. Artist Alliance Inc offered us the opportunity occupy a empty Essex Street Market stall for nearly a year to present a market story series. Currently, we are working on a memory collection app that facilitates the sharing of of food stories from a re-vamped airline refreshment cart equipped with an iPad and video camera. As public performance artists, we collect stories playing the role of cultural flight attendants. The aesthetics of culinary art, in its preparation and its presentation, manifests itself as we wear our uniforms and customize our cart and its offerings based on the site-specific location we are visiting. There is performance in our interaction and exchange – art through social engagement.

THERESA LOONG

Theresa Loong is an interactive media artist who creates intergenerational storytelling experiences focused on memory, identity, and immigration through the use of film, games and apps. Her documentary, “Every Day Is a Holiday,” showed on public television with support from the LMCC, ITVS and CPB. She was a consulting producer for AMC Networks on digital storytelling experiences surrounding The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad. Theresa led integrated media projects with the New York Times, Architecture for Humanity, and Food and Wine.  She taught interactive technologies at NYU and exhibited at the Triennale di Milano and Círculo de Bellas Artes. She is currently developing an interactive piece with community organizations called “Bought/Broken.” Theresa works at Potion, an experience design and technology studio based in New York. She is chairperson of the board of directors of The FilmShop.