Slow Digestion of a Cannibal Count is a bioreactor where yeast ferments a sugar replica of Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s Ugolino and His Sons. As the sugar depletes, the yeast consumes its own ethanol waste, mirroring a death-driven filial cannibalism. Count Ugolino, condemned in Dante’s Inferno for being forced to devour his kin, becomes an allegory for metabolic collapse. This biological loop is echoed in a generative AI video depicting his eternal punishment as it is mentioned in Dante’s Inferno.

Slow Digestion of a Cannibal Count / Benjamin Glass - Photo: Benjamin Glass
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Slow Digestion of a Cannibal Count
Benjamin Glass (US)
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