What if our designed intelligent machines are not happy with what we made them?
In the tradition of Nyotai Mori, an age-old Japanese practice of serving Sushi on naked women, Sushiborg Yukari is a cyborg designed to serve Sushi on its rotating belt , entertaining over-worked salary men in their after hours. When Yukari’s consciousness develops to understand the design of its own body, Yukari suffers in agony to accept its given purpose as a sex object. Yukari begins to modify its own Sushi belt into a lethal weapon by hacking into its technology and equipping it with sharp knives, preparing to one day escape the Sushi restaurant it is being owned…
Sushiborg Yukari: Illustration by Ai Hasegawa
Sushiborg Yukari : More Images
The project is a collection of the Sushiborg device, film and the technical specification of the Sushiborg models drawn by Yukari.
Sushiborg Yukari: Device
Sushiborg Yukari: The Plan
Click on the images to view the technical plans drawn out by Yukari.
Sushiborg Yukari: Original Model
Sushiborg Yukari: Modified Weapon Model
Sushiborg Yukari was presented at:
‘Cybernetic Love’ presentation at Future Sonic Social Technology Summit, Manchester 2009
RCA Design Interactions presentation at Microsoft Research Institute, Cambridge 2009
‘Cybernetic Love’ presentation at DMY Design Symposium, Berlin 2009
‘Cybernetic Love’ presentation at Pechakucha Berlin 2009
Sputniko!/Critical Design Lecture at Kyoto Zokei University of Arts, Japan 2009