In his project Inter(Faces) of Predictions, which received the C/O Talent Award, Sheung Yiu examines how faces are used across different cultural and technological contexts to attribute character traits and to predict the future. The project brings together traditional East Asian practices of facial analysis with Western physiognomy and contemporary facial-recognition technologies. By analysing his own face, Yiu demonstrates how both historical belief systems and modern algorithmic procedures reproduce similar biases and stereotypical assumptions. The project invites critical reflection on how we interpret faces and the assumptions underlying these interpretations. By connecting historical and contemporary discourses, archival material, and his own photographic work, as well as technological methods and artistic practice, Yiu builds a bridge between past and present, art and science, magic and technology.

The book takes the form of a Möbius strip. The image sequence is laid out to prompt the reader to flip the book upside down and continue reading, moving between a self-portrait of Yiu covered with facial landmarks and an image of Yiu pointing at his mole— two points that signify their respective predictive regimes. The cover design features a mirrored pair of images, echoing the Möbius structure of the book. The reflective cover and black book edge form a visual inversion of a Bible, hinting at the recursive relationship between magic and technology, a central idea of the project.