About Xiaohan
Xiaohan (Hannah) Liao is a hybrid artist and interaction designer living in San Francisco. Currently, Xiaohan is pursuing her MFA degree in interaction design at California College of the Arts after receiving her BFA in interdisciplinary Computing and the Arts from UC San Diego in 2017. Previously, Xiaohan interned as a design researcher at the Design Future Initiative, where she built immersive educational experiences for children hospitalized at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.
Xiaohan experiments with a variety of data, electronics, and virtual reality (VR)/augmented reality (AR). As an artist, she is interested in visualizing the provocative and speculative futures of emerging technologies that involve government censorship, discriminations and privacy. Her goal is to bring art, design and technology together in the future. In 2020, she hosted a virtual creative coding workshop in the undergraduate graphic design department at California College of the Arts to help more artists and designers navigate their creative processes using technology.
Her ongoing MFA thesis intends to challenge the current paradigm in mixed reality (MR) technology in order to build more compelling and inclusive immersive experiences for the visually impaired. Her projects involve sound visualization, image sonification, AR, and accessibilities in VR.
Besides art and design, Xiaohan is also a musician and ballet dancer(amateur).