和

Since 2024, I have been creating multiple prints, chanting thousands of 和, as an act of worship and devotion.

During the New Year, people in East Asia often visit a scholar to receive a character that embodies their wishes for the year ahead. Most of the time, people choose characters like 財 (Tài — wealth), 祿 (Lộc — fortune), or 忍 (Nhẫn — patience). I choose 和 (Hoà — harmony).

和 (Hoà) is the state of the universe where everything aligns. — “Thiên thời, địa lợi, nhân hoà” (As above, so below).
和 (Hoà) calls for the mediation between human and non-human.
和 (Hoà) calls for peace.
和 (Hoà) is a call for us to return and immerse ourselves back into nature.

和 1: Angkor

和 2: Lake Summer

和 3: Day

和 4: Night

和 6: Jesus came back in a new dress

和 5: The Buddha of Angkor

Nhân Phan ␥

In search of another technological future, Nhân Phan looks toward a vision deeply bound to humanity: technology invented by and for the powerless, carrying hopes and dreams, making space for personal feelings, and giving form to what once seemed impossible. His practice reclaims this sense of possibility: imagining technology as it once promised to be, before commercial interests and large-scale systems of control narrowed what it could mean.

Questions of love, desire, digital identity, and poetic computation recur across his work in software, data, installation, film, language, and pedagogical experiments. Nhân emerged from Saigon's DIY tech community and founded CodeSurfing, an art-tech collective in Vietnam. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Goldsmiths, University of London, and has been both a fellow and mentor of the Processing Foundation Fellowship. He is currently an MFA candidate at UCLA Design | Media Arts.

CONTACT

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

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Nhân Phan ␥