How-Many

2024 · Solo

Built on a train, after another day of "40 dead in Gaza" headlines: a satire that asks you to mark deaths as "acceptable losses" until the denial turns absurd. FREE PALESTINE.

An experiment in making a number land when numbers have stopped landing. The news said '40 dead in Gaza' and '60 dead in Gaza' every day, and I kept asking what number it would take before anyone called it genocide. So I built a clicker game, on a train, that asks you to reclassify deaths as 'acceptable losses' until the denial turns absurd. The interface darkened as you clicked through denial, then resolved into the UN Genocide Convention's actual definition, set against live data, in six languages. I wanted people to stop for five seconds and actually feel something. No longer public.

The numbers came from Tech for Palestine's Gaza dashboard.

How-Many on a phone, ten clicks into its satire of denial: 37,581 of 75,163 people killed are now marked "acceptable", with the live count of deaths in Gaza below