Angie Fan

Applied Cuteness Research is a virtual reality installation that invites audiences to play with artificial cuties in VR. Some questions I hope audiences will consider include: Who owns the technology you use everyday? Why was it made? When you use technology, who is the user and who is the utilized? Does artificial intelligence live to serve? Continue Reading Angie Fan

Prologue: cuteness as a familiar, leads the way through the entangled logics of technology.
Angie Fan is studying cuteness in virtual space as means of disentangling human relationships with technology. Their ongoing series Applied Cuteness Research explores the semantic, visual, and psychological spaces of digital cuteness in interactive media in works spanning from text-based virtual pets to AI agents in virtual reality.