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I am an Associate Professor at the Academy of Arts & Design , Tsinghua University , where I teach digital media and visual visualization art practice.
Trained in the United States and China, with doctoral coursework in Media Arts completed, my work bridges design research and creative practice.
Two Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degrees anchor this trajectory.
My current research focuses on data visualization, especially on revealing hidden patterns and improving how information travels in public space. My projects have reached hundreds of thousands of viewers online, and my papers have been cited hundreds of times by scholars.
I’m driven by a simple passion: helping everyday audiences see how people navigate—and sometimes prevail—in highly competitive worlds. This has led me to projects such as AwardPuzzle, an award-winning work on strategies and advantage, and Family Tree, which draws on a thousand-year lineage tradition to help people rethink what reproduction and kinship can mean.
I was born in a small town in Sichuan, China, and have lived for extended periods in Chengdu, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, New York, and Boston. These places continue to shape—and blend into—how I think, teach, and make.
In my artistic practice, I often collaborate with composers Sam Auinger and Hannes Strobl under the name stadtmusik. My work has been exhibited internationally in venues including Centre Pompidou, Sundance and the Hong Kong International Film Festival.
Contact: xiangfan4545@126.com
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