INFO
| Name | Son La Pham (he/him) |
| Born | 1993 |
| Country of Birth | Aotearoa |
| Place of Residence | Berlin |
| Ethnicities | Vietnamese |
| Artform | Design, Club nights |
| Decades Active | 2010s, 2020s |
ABOUT
Son La Pham is a graphic designer and developer living in Berlin. His work reflects his interest in the critical implications and possibilities of new technologies, and new forms emerging on the web.
Pham grew up in Pōneke Wellington and graduated from Massey University’s Visual Communication Design programme in 2015. Since then, he has frequently collaborated with artists, curators, galleries and writers, contributing to projects such as Animals as Objects? (2021, with others), A Year of Conscious Practice (2017, with Dexter Edwards), the Bowerbank Ninow gallery and auction house identity (2015-18, with DDMMYY), publications and exhibition collateral for Artspace Aotearoa (2015-18, also with DDMMYY), and LE ROY Magazine (2017, with Kelvin Soh, Oliver Guyon and Sam Wieck).
From 2016 to 2018, he worked with DJs Creamy Mami, Brown Boy Magik and Lil Hoe on the Prairie, running Fully Explicit, a queer active club night in Auckland.
In 2018, Pham exhibited the wall-mounted installation Warm Blood at Objectspace in Auckland.
Alongside game developer Francis Tseng and as part of the Berlin collective TRUST, Pham created the free browser game Half-Earth Socialism (2022), to accompany the book of the same name by Drew Pendergrass and Troy Vettese, published by Verso Books. The global planning game allows players to experiment with different combinations of technologies and policies, testing their environmental impacts through a real climate model and simulated impacts on biodiversity and food systems.
