Highway Sushi by Annan Shao

Highway Sushi

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Highway Sushi reflects the tendency to close circuit loop of information and assimilate ideas in the post-human era. The highway is a conduit for information , and the sushi represents the information. We picks the part that agree with from the sushi that floats in front of us, and takes a few bites, and the rest of it goes back to the producer. Then it is carefully plated and returns to the diner, be eaten and then transferred back to the kitchen, where it is processed and presented again. I have always loved cooking, including the cooking process and the wholesome state of food. When I went to restaurants as a child, I always plate the leftovers on the table as a fine dinning dish so that they could flow into the slop bucket with dignity. So this act of remaking leftovers into a new dish, eating the new dish and turn it into leftovers and then make it into the next new dish and repeating multiple rounds has lingered in my mind for a long time. This structure could map many things, and what I would like to use this to discuss is the issue of information closed circuit and the trend towards identity nomadism in the post-human era. The story takes place on a slalom sushi track based on a highway frame. There are two characters. One is the chef, who will create the dishes, and the other is the guest, who will eat them. Each time leftovers are eaten they return to the chef to be made into the next dish, and so the cycle of eating and making continues. The highway structure in the environment refer to the channels through which information travels in the post-human era,and the sushi represents the product of that information, with the contents floating in front of you picking the parts you agree with and taking a few bites to absorb, while the rest returned to the chef to be remade, plated and returned to the diner. From a critical perspective, one could say that I am metaphorically referring to these seemingly diverse forms of output, but in fact the content is a constant regurgitation of its own scraps. But it is also clear that this film is not entirely pessimistic about the closure of the information loop. From another perspective, when the myriad groups of input and output come together to form an ecology of autonomous symbiosis, it is a development in identity nomadism, an aesthetic that takes the macroscopic overhead view of cultural output out of focus and is uniquely suited to the post-human era.

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computer graphics
computer animation