Whiffy (2025) is a compact sculpture that combines a Wi-Fi sniffer, SSID transmitter, and a Tamagotchi-like form. As an interactive installation, it scans surrounding networks, emits signals, and delivers a Tamagotchi-style narrative to viewers through voice output. The voice is generated by a custom-trained voice clone, using datasets that include video game child characters, anime voice actors, and ASMR roleplay recordings, and is available in both English and Korean. Through interacting with this sculpture, viewers engage with otherwise imperceptible digital networks, encountering a newly revealed sensory layer of the surrounding infrastructural space.

PA-filament, electronics, wires, battery cell, aluminium pedestal
8 x 12 x 20xm each

3D-work by Paula Garcia Sans
Text by Minsik Kim

Documentation from the Radical Creativity In The Age Of AI: Korea-Finland Innovation Forum in June 2025 at Yonsei University, Seoul (KR).

This project was kindly support by Mondriaan Fonds, Stimulerings Fonds, Fonds Kwadraat and Embassy of Finland in Seoul.