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Gate of Fortunes

Ann LO

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Ann Lo is a graphic designer with a fine art background, based between London and Taipei. Her practice blends design, painting, and photography as tools for aesthetic storytelling, using both intuitive and conceptual approaches to reinterpret personal and cultural experiences.

Ann Lo is a graphic designer with a fine art background, based between London and Taipei. Her pra...

College London College of Communication

Course MA Graphic Media Design

Graduation year 2025

This project reinterprets the Taiwanese divination ritual puàh-pue through the act of reading. Using a language-learning model trained on three hundred divination poems, the book generates new oracles where belief is performed through chance, code, and physical gesture. When opened from both sides, the pages form a circular mark, half solid, half hollow, revealing one of three outcomes: Yes, No, or uncertainty. Each opening becomes a divination.

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Gate of Fortunes

A book that reinterprets Taiwanese divination through algorithmic chance and gesture.

Gate of Fortunes

A book that reinterprets Taiwanese divination through algorithmic chance and gesture.

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Algorithmic Divination Process

The screen shows how the language model generates bilingual divination poems, transforming ritual belief into algorithmic text

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This project reinterprets the Taiwanese divination ritual puàh-pue through the act of reading. Using a language-learning model trained on three hundred divination poems, the book generates new oracles where belief is performed through chance, code, and physical gesture. When o...

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## Official page
- https://ualshowcase.arts.ac.uk/project/685933/cover

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