More Heat Than Light

More Heat Than Light  Sam Lewitt October 2016Sequence Press, Koenig Books Ltd, Westreich Wagner Publications, and Galerie BuchholzDesigned by Geoff Kaplan & Sam LewittContributions by Elena Filipovic, Melanie Gilligan, Anthony Huberman, Sam Lewitt, and Mark von SchlegellSoftcover 7.5 in. x 10.25 in., 228 pp., 200 color images1000 copies, each with unique, split fountain gradientsISBN 978-3-96098-016-2   More Heat Than Light is a book developed in conjunction with the eponymous exhibitions, co-organized for 2015-16 by the Wattis Institute, San Francisco and Kunsthalle Basel. The work, exhibited at both of those institutions as well as an anonymous Airbnb rental apartment in New York, consists of oversized custom flexible heating circuits, used for environmental regulation in the sealed environments of equipment as diverse as medical equipment and food trays, in satellites and chemical vats. The heating circuits in More Heat Than Light are several times their conventional size, scale