Her work explores putting porous boundaries between things at various scales and materiality. She is currently exploring sticky and stinky themes of comfort, air conditionoing, and smell while building virtual galleries through Receipt Calendar.
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- Fax Heat
- Site: (40.36,-71.09)
- Project timeline: 2024-
- Author: Ahzin Nam
Contemporary media often center sight and sound, shaping presence through screens and speech. But what if intimacy could be mediated through thermal sensation? A 'heat faxer' reimagines communication as affective transmission, where temperature becomes signal and presence is no longer visual or verbal but embodied. In this framework, heat functions as a medium that is ephemeral, tactile, and atmospheric, capable of conveying emotional proximity across physical distance.
The prototype
Converting electricty to body heat