XU HAN | 韩 旭
Chinese,
Based in the bay area, CA, USA
E-mail: hanxu900109@gmail.com
Chinese,
Based in the bay area, CA, USA
E-mail: hanxu900109@gmail.com
Xu Han is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and educator whose practice investigates language as the fundamental system through which humans construct meaning, relationships, memory, and increasingly, communicate with intelligent machines.
Working across installation, generative processes, typography, books, moving image, and emerging technologies, she explores language beyond words—as gesture, emotion, image, material, and computational process. Rather than treating language as a fixed structure, she approaches it as an evolving system that is continuously reshaped by new media, technologies, and human experience.
Her work examines how communication is generated, translated, distorted, and reimagined across different forms of intelligence, questioning how technological systems transform the ways we express ourselves, interpret others, and imagine the future of human communication.
Han received her MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design after earning her BFA in Graphic Design from Tsinghua University. She has taught graphic design, computational practice, interaction design, and creative technology at Pratt Institute and California College of the Arts. She currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Working across installation, generative processes, typography, books, moving image, and emerging technologies, she explores language beyond words—as gesture, emotion, image, material, and computational process. Rather than treating language as a fixed structure, she approaches it as an evolving system that is continuously reshaped by new media, technologies, and human experience.
Her work examines how communication is generated, translated, distorted, and reimagined across different forms of intelligence, questioning how technological systems transform the ways we express ourselves, interpret others, and imagine the future of human communication.
Han received her MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design after earning her BFA in Graphic Design from Tsinghua University. She has taught graphic design, computational practice, interaction design, and creative technology at Pratt Institute and California College of the Arts. She currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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