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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- Realtime Parallel Universe
- Site: (40.22,-73.99)
- Project timeline: 2021-2027
- Authors: Ahzin Nam + Leon Fang + Ravindra Bisram
In Lewis Carroll’s Through the Looking Glass, Alice discovers a world that operates with the logic of Chess. The project creates a real-time parallel universe narration of the subject’s everyday life using machine vision to detect “actants” and use the text list of the actants as an input for Natural Language Processing to generate a longer real-time fiction. In the process, the biases embedded within a digital camera, machine vision (YOLO) and natural language processing (GPT-2) create a “familiarly strange” world that is constantly modified by and rewriting the real world.