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 sweat while working on a collaborative world building project, temporarily titled “surreal suburb” through a design collective, Unihoro Supply.
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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