戚昊楠: Creative technologist, designer, and photographer of Nanjing-origin, currently living in NYC, whose recent works dialogue with urbanization, its ecological foundation, and social fabrics in which humans affiliate with non-human species/objects, co-creating a biophilic and equitable future. His graphic works explore the aesthetic and narrative absurdity, often incorporating elements of object journalism, envolving encounters of seeing with those unseeing.
Haonan’s work has been featured in Vogue Italy and Print Magazine. He has been awarded GDUSA Graphic Design Awards, Monochrome Photography Awards Honorable Mention (professional), GDUSA Graphic Design Awards, and Graphis New Talent Silver Awards.
2022 - BFA Design, School of Visual Arts
2024 - MPS Interactive Telecommunication (ITP), Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
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EXPERIENCE
XR GALLERY
Experimented with web VR to host my XR works in a virutal gallery space. Exhibited projects include: workspace, space portal, and my avatar.
The model is made in Cinema 4D, Avatar AR is made in Spark Studio, web VR is made in A-frame.
Feel free to click around ->
2022VR / AR
GET OUT OF MY INTERNET
This is an experiment of controlling natural sound in digital medium with hands. Made for ITP New Interface for New Music Expression (2024 NIME).
Made in P5js with MediaPipe and Ableton.
2024New Media Performance
AMNIOTIC SYNTHESIS
Link to the complete documentation & my soundtracks
Imagine a space where you can truly connect with your innermost self, a sanctuary where you can embrace your vulnerability and rediscover the essence of who you are. Amniotic Synthesis is an immersive experience for self-reflection and personal growth by reconnecting you with your earliest formative memories.
Collaborated with Andriana Mereuta & Mashiyat Zaman.
Role: Visual and Sound Designer
2023Therapeutic Experience
FLY CARES ABOUT HUMAN WORLD AS MUCH AS WE DO
What more can we do than a fly in this fractured world consuming overwhelmingly bipolar informations online?
Made in Unity. Streamed on Twitch via OBS on 2024. 03. 11.
2024New Media Performance
US
Us is built upon the idea of which we consider plants as social participants. Our lack of ability to metaphysically bond with other species who don’t share our languages or senses drives us to degrade plants as decorations or mere objects, despite these plants played and always will play an irreplaceable, often interactive role in our lives. That’s why we pick the succulent: namely the most easy-to-take-care-of plant, aka the most ignorable plant, as our participant.
Collaborated with Yuxuan Qi & Yingyi Lei.
Visuals and sound are made in TouchDesigner, interaction is made in Arduino.
2023Interactive Installation
LIFE JOTTING2019 - Photography
DESIGNING FOR AI2024Interactive ExperienceUNDER CONSTRUCTION
HOME TERRAIN2023ARUNDER CONSTRUCTION