MirrorBook

Mirrorbook reinterprets Miriam Rasch’s Shadowbook by transforming reading into a system of liking, disliking, curating, and leaving traces. Each user builds a personal mosaic generated from the five themes - Feeling, System, Connection, Voice, and Trace - revealing how their attention moves through the text. The project examines how digital interfaces reshape intimacy, judgment, and engagement within contemporary publishing.

This publication imagines a book that “judges back,” merging literary reading with the interactive logic of dating apps and self-tracking systems. Instead of reading passively, users swipe through fragments; in doing so, they are also being read, sorted, and matched to thematic patterns. The inversion turns the book into a dynamic mirror in which interpretation produces a visual and data-driven response.

The project explores the “afterlife” of publishing by extending the book beyond its printed form and into interactive, algorithmic environments. Like Tinder’s Year in Swipe or Spotify Wrapped, the text continues beyond the moment of reading: it reappears as mosaics, indexes, and personal visualizations that frame reading as both a private act and a public performance. The result is a cross-media publication that questions how digital systems influence what we choose, how we connect, and what remains as our trace.