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):
Chinese Diaspora
Haoran Chang is a visual artist, media art researcher and experimental game designer. He is currently a PhD candidate at 91亚色 in Cinema and Media Studies and pursuing a diploma in Asian Studies. His practice and research focus on game studies, immersive media, posthuman media, ethnographic game design, somatic design and art in cosmotechnics. His research-creation dissertation examines how ethnographic game design methods and somatic principles can address the limitations of current health gamification applications through the lens of Daoist practice. He uses game creation as research to explore a non-Eurocentric framework of games for healing through autoethnography studies and co-creation workshops with various Taiji communities rooted in Daoism tradition. Combining scholarly
research and artistic practice, he explores how worldbuilding in a Chinese worldview can construct alternative imaginaries for gaming technology.
His scholarly and artistic works have been presented at many international conferences and festivals, including ISEA, xCoAx, CHI PLAY, SIGGRAPH Asia, and HASTAC. He has also exhibited works in museums and galleries, including CICA museum in South Korea, Walter Otero Contemporary Art in Puerto Rico, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, Hunan Museum of Art in China, Center 3 in Toronto and many more. His VR works and films have been exhibited in many international film festivals, such as Slamdance, FIVARS, Ji.hlava International documentary festival, and Pleasure Dome. He has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Refract and Virtual Creativity.