Faculty Associate
taien[at]yorku.ca
York Research Chair in Marginal & Emergent Media and Assistant Professor
Department of Cinema and Media Arts, York University
Research Keywords:
Experimental processes; urban mapping; sound art; futurist imaginings of everyday life in the Asian Diaspora; immersive cinema
Research Diaspora(s):
Asian Diaspora
Taien Ng-Chan is a writer, media artist and assistant professor in Cinema and Media Arts at York University. In addition to her scholarly work in such publications as Intermediality and Humanities, she has published four books and anthologies of creative writing, produced multimedia arts websites, written drama for stage, screen and CBC Radio. Her digital media works have been exhibited in conference events, film festivals and galleries across Canada and internationally. Dr. Ng-Chan serves as Chair of the Commission for Art and Cartography at the International Cartographic Association, and founded the artist-research collective Hamilton Perambulatory Unit (with artist Donna Akrey). She has received numerous grants from SSHRC and the Canada Council for the Arts. In 2019, she won the City of Hamilton Arts Award for Media Arts as well as the AMPD Junior Faculty Teaching Award; in 2022 she was awarded the President’s Emerging Research Leadership Award.
Dr. Ng-Chan is currently the York Research Chair in Marginal & Emergent Media, and is developing her studio-lab, Marginal MediaWorks, to explore research-creation in Extended Reality (or XR, an umbrella term that includes virtual and augmented realities, geo-located soundscape). She is Co-Director (with Prof. Carmela Laganse at McMaster University) of the Sari-Sari Xchange Project, which partners with the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, Tangled Art+Disability, and Centre[3] for Social+Artistic Practice to explore community-building through XR media creation.