Original Machines is a visual communication project that explores the relationship between artificial intelligence and human emotion. Centred around the image of a metallic heart—symbolising life and human feeling—the project visualises AI’s attempt to understand and simulate the complexity of human emotion through cold, data-driven logic.
By integrating dynamic graphics generated in TouchDesigner and a range of promotional materials, the project constructs a visual system that is both coldly precise and poetically expressive, questioning whether AI can truly convey human emotion through data in the age of technology. Through the development of a cohesive brand identity, Original Machines investigates how human emotion can be seen, interpreted, or even fabricated in a highly digitalised communication landscape.