English | Tiếng Việt
CodeSurfing (Lướt Code) is a creative tech collective from Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), which aims to situate technology and its various applications within artistic, research and archiving practices through poetical approaches. Poetics is the remedy for the needs of connections. Poetics lies in the act of placing oneself before another’s emotions, to sense them fully without the impulse to judge, to fix, or to resist.
Emerged from the collision of technology and art, CodeSurfing houses experiments of poetic programming, notably in their two projects: “Dự án tiếng Việt (Our Vietnamese Project)”, 2024, and “Vùng Biển Mẹ (Our Mother Sea)”, 2025.
While in “Dự án tiếng Việt (Our Vietnamese Project)”— an attempt to chart the Vietnamese language’s transformation into a monosyllabic language along with the resurgence of unmeaning syllables in the present context, programming is used as a tool to navigate through the abundance of Vietnamese tongue. In “Vùng Biển Mẹ (Our Mother Sea)”, programming becomes an index to remember the folklores of Vietnam’s Southern coast. In the medium of tech, both projects aim to explore and continue that poetic aspect of our life.
Join Nhân Phan and Yui Nguyễn, two-third of CodeSurfing (Lướt Code) in their upcoming talk at A. Farm to unpack what makes programming poetic? How can poetics emerge from technology and how does it connect to our life?
EVENT DETAILS
Time: 15:00 — 16:30, 1 November 2025
Venue: A. Farm, Floor 6, Amanaki Hotel Thao Dien, 10 Nguyễn Đăng Giai
Registration:https://forms.gle/xusNSfXq48QVDfqH8
Parking location: The Sentry P, 16 Nguyễn Đăng Giai, An Khánh Ward
The talk will be in English.
ABOUT OUR SPEAKERS
Nhan Phan is an media artist. His work explores humanity through the poetic interventions of software and machines, spanning mediums such as programming, data, pedagogy, public speaking, installation, print, and language. He is the founder of CodeSurfing, a collective in HCMC that works to expand the boundaries and spaces of artistic practice in Vietnam through the use of computational languages. He has been recognized as a Lumen Prize finalist and as a Processing Foundation fellow and mentor.
Yui Nguyen is a writer, a visual artist and a theorist, who took inspiration from cultural syncretism and acculturation in Asia.
CodeSurfing (Lướt Code) is an art-tech collective emerging from Ho Chi Minh City. Situated within the field of digital humanities, the collective develops public programs, curricular experiments, and collaborative research that connect local communities with wider regional and international networks. Its work promotes interdisciplinary inquiry across art, technology, and the humanities and seeks to expand the boundaries and spaces of artistic practice through the use of computational languages. CodeSurfing’s projects have been presented at the Vietnam Women’s Museum in Hanoi, received the FutureTense Award in Hong Kong, and were shortlisted as finalists for the Lumen Prize. The collective is currently stewarded by Nhan Phan, Yui Nguyen, and Khoi Nguyen.
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