Nhân Phan

Nhân Phan is a mixed media artist, known for his work with software, installation, and film. Born into the Internet era and raised in transition across homes, his life is a scatter of moments, places, and people — both lived physically and digitally. Dwelling in this hybridity, Nhân’s work becomes his manual for being human in the generation of tech. Here, algorithms and devices become agents of desire, interfering with reciprocity, producing both friction and pleasure. Nhân uses love and even cheesiness as critical gestures against the current overly design-driven tech industry, which increasingly diminishes human touch and moral complexity in pursuit of profit and surface appeal.

Nhân is a graduate candidate of UCLA’s MFA in Media Arts, as a Fulbright student. He is the founder of CodeSurfing — a creative technology collective in Vietnam. He was a recipient, then a mentor of the Processing Fellowship, and a finalist of Lumen Prize