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Ghost Logistics – Cao Shu
15’10” | 2023
Set in an abandoned sugar factory in Guangdong, Phantom Sugar follows an AI-controlled drone tending sugarcane in a vertical farm in a post-human world. Combining drone footage with game-engine rendering and weaving together science fiction, technological critique, and local memory, the work narrates the factory’s industrial past and speculative futures.
About the artist: Cao Shu
Cao Shu (Chinese Mainland) is a contemporary artist based in Hangzhou whose work spans 3D digital moving image, video game installation, sound, and sculpture. His practice explores memory, technology, historical trauma, and the intersection between digital systems and human experience, through narrative-driven, research-based projects.