Fusion Protocol: Algorithmic Intimacy is an artistic practice combining AI-generated imagery, moving image, and 3D-printed models. The project begins with the bodily errors produced by AI-generated images and explores how intimacy is misread, stretched, fused, and reshaped within algorithmic space.

When generating images of two figures getting close, embracing, or merging, AI often produces blurred bodily boundaries, adhered limbs, and distorted hands, faces, and shoulders. At first, these results appear to be technical mistakes. In this project, however, they become a new bodily language. Intimacy is no longer only an emotional connection, but a physical condition of overlap, sharing, and symbiosis.

The video part presents a blurred and unstable feeling: bodies shift between separation and overlap, touch becomes adhesion, and embrace becomes tension. I then select the most merged and distorted fragments from the AI images, transform them into 3D models, and print them with silky or semi-transparent materials. Some forms are also developed into frame-like structures, where the frame is no longer merely a container of memory, but becomes a second body of intimacy.

This project creates a tension between tenderness and unease, reality and the digital, body and material, transforming AI’s “mistakes” into a posthuman form of intimate symbiosis.