Nhân Phan

Hi, this is Nhan.
I base mostly in Vietnam and work accross media art, programming, and teaching.

PRACTICE ⎯
I was born into the Internet era and raised in transition across multiple homes. My life is a scatter of places, faces, and moments - lived physically, digitally, and in between. Dwelling in this hybridity, my work forms a manual for being human under digital conditions. Here, algorithms and devices become agents of emotion and desire, interfering with familiarity and reciprocity, producing both friction and pleasure. I use love, affection, and even cheesiness as critical gestures against the current overly design-driven technological landscape, which increasingly diminishes human touch and moral complexity in pursuit of profit and surface appeal.

My works are developed and presented through a collaborative and performative process. I have created zines in which contributors must reply to one another only through the pages, relinquishing all other forms of daily contact. I have built a keyboard that forms and vocalizes non-existent Vietnamese syllables, urging participants to make noise and make sense together. I have produced video installations that provoke perversity and discomfort, at times prompting audiences to leave the screening altogether. Collaboration, in my practice, is not only a theme but a condition carefully embedded throughout the making.

Currently, I am in residency with AirHue in Hue/VN.

TEACHING ⎯
My teaching is primarily in p5.js and creative coding. I am the founder and teacher at CodeSurfing, the first art-tech collective in Vietnam, advocating for accessibility in technology for local artists. In 2023, I was a Teaching Fellow of the Processing Foundation Fellowship, and in 2024, I continued as a mentor. Prior to this, from 2020 to 2023, I worked as a teaching assistant and later as an instructor at CoderSchool, where I led classes and workshops covering data analysis with Python, computer vision, and generative networks.

CONTACT ⎯
You can reach me via my email. My teaching and programs are public via CodeSurfing (IG and Web).