Graduate Associate
hchang68[at]yorku.ca
Doctoral Student
Graduate Programme in Cinema and Media Studies
Research Keywords:
Game studies; immersive media; media art; critical posthumanism; Feminist STS
Research Region(s):
China, East Asia
Research Diaspora(s):
Haoran Chang is an artist, media art researcher, and experimental game designer. His current practice and research focus on feminist game studies, posthumanism in digital media, immersive media, and worlding and worldbuilding. His PhD research-creation project explores how the body can be healed with immersive gaming technology, approached from the perspective of Traditional Chinese Medicine philosophy and practice. His works have been shown in many international conferences and festivals, including ISEA, xCoAx, CHI Play, SIGGRAPH Asia, and HASTAC. He has also exhibited works in museums and galleries internationally, including Walter Otero Contemporary Art in Puerto Rico, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, Viridian Gallery in New York, Baltimore, Washington International Airport, The Institute of the Arts and Science Gallery in Santa Cruz, California, Hunan Museum of Art in China, Center 3 Gallery in Hamilton, and many more. He has published papers on peer-reviewed journals, such as Refract and Virtual Creativity. He has been invited as visiting artist and guest speaker by institutions such as Johns Hopkins University, Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, York University, and University of California Santa Cruz. He is also the founder of Mixed Reality collective Chameleon Gallery and has taken the lead in developing two art games published on Steam.