829134765

Date: 2026

Role: Designer

Client: Personal

829134765 utilizes Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot and roland barthes' camera lucidia to examine a select sample group's responses to a contemporary thematic apperception test. responses are then transposed through numerical calculations to create visuals indicating photography as a visual medium and it's impact on the psyche.

A physical autopsy of digital exposure, exploring how digital systems flatten and morph human feeling.

829134765 explores the tension between "responsiveness" and "non-responsiveness," uncovering what manifests when projected human vulnerability and emotion enter an algorithmic system to see what remains.

The book’s typography visualizes the machine's indifference to human expression. The unedited volunteer responses are stripped of all typographical hierarchy and directly transported into a sterile, uniform 10pt Diatype Regular field that represents Roland Barthes' concept of the studium: the general indifference of noise we percieve.

To examine how algorithms process emotion, the most commonly used word from each image’s data (like "SNOW") is used as the chapter's punctum (the points of interest that visually stimulate the subjects) and marked on the footnote of each page.

Printed on 11.1 × 18.1 cm uncoated 32/80lb Text (118gsm) paper.

Coptic binding.

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