About:
Haoran Chang is a visual artist, media art researcher, and experimental game designer. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate at York University in Cinema and Media Studies. His practice and research focus on game studies, immersive media, posthuman media, ethnographic game design, somatic design, re-enactment studies, 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 Tai Chi communities rooted in Daoist tradition. 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, 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 (Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Storytelling), Ji.hlava International documentary festival, and Pleasure Dome. He is also the founder of Mixed Reality collective Chameleon Gallery.