First Place / Oracle
Courtesy of Wei Wu & Zhenyu Yang
First Place goes to Wei Wu & Zhenyu Yang. “Oracle" is a story about existence. We envisage a prosperous future world of energy and material, where people no longer need to engage in any productive labor, where productivity is completely liberated. The institutionalized social structure completely ceases to exist, and each individual is no longer restricted by the site and gains complete "freedom." What people's life state would be like under this premise? Are there other "purposes" that drive us to live meaningfully in the absence of work, consumption, and other regular social activities? Since these questions are so grand and ultimate, we simply describe one particular situation in our narrative - a story of love, faith, and dreams, a story that seems like it will happen in the distant future, but in fact is not too far away from any of us.”