Match Point 2026

FACE

Publication

FACE is a visual scripting system inspired by anti-facial recognition markings and CV-dazzle, intended to protect protesters from live facial recognition. Using marks with codified meanings and a simple syntax, protesters can hide their identities while amplifying their message. This project consists of three separate, but linked publications: a language guide, a FACE-to-English dictionary, and an essay about the process of creating and expanding the system. FACE was designed to be translated into other languages, and to allow the vocabulary to grow over time. As a speculative design piece, FACE positions system design as a tool of radical dissent against mass-surveillance.

Ritual Use

Film

Ritual Use explores our limited understanding of ancient belief systems and the objects connected to them. By using thermal imaging, body heat becomes a visualisation of superstition, and a synecdoche for belief systems as a whole. The pendant in the film was cast in bronze and echoes objects found in museums under labels such as “ritual use,” whose values were originally defined functionally rather than materially, while that information has been lost to time.