I am currently pursuing my PhD degree at York University in Cinema and Media Studies. My practice and research focus on the liminality of virtuality, game studies, immersive media, and health humanities in feminist account. I have exhibited my works in various locations, including CICA museum in South Korea, Walter Otero Contemporary Art in Puerto Rico, Vox Populi in Philadelphia, and many more. I published papers on peer-reviewed journal like Refract and Virtual Creativity. I am also the founder of Mixed Reality collective Chameleon Gallery.
My Ph.D. dissertation explores XR games as a healing medium, drawing inspiration from Traditional Chinese Medicine philosophy to reevaluate the relationship between the body and the environment through technological mediation. I am practicing Qigong, specifically in the lineage of medical Qigong and Taoism tradition, as part of an auto-ethnography approach in my research creation. I am also a fan of climbing (mostly in the climbing gym and bouldering).
Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in TCM, Qigong, Game, XR, reparative media, or anything relevant adjacent.
Contact
Instagram: haoranchang Email: tylerchang.hr@gmail.com
What is going on: Recent and Upcoming
Winter 2024
* I am doing a directed reading focusing on Feminist Science Studies and Medical Humanities with Professor Janine Marchessault and preparing for my comprehensive examination with a focus on Feminist Science Studies, Game Studies, and Health Humanities in Media
March, 2024
* I am awarded The Professional Development Opportunity Fund for Sessional Instructor from OCAD
June 12 - 14, 2024
* I will present our new paper “Psychogeotherapy and A Framework of Collective Augmented Reality Game” at the 6th Interactive Film & Media International Virtual Conference
June 15 - 18, 2024
* I will present my new research on Queer(ing) Exergame at CGSA 2024
June 13-17, 2024
* I will present the topic of Slow Game at FMSAC 2024
* I will present as one of the panelists of a roundtable discussion for our ongoing SSX Asian Diaspora with Communities-based XR media practices at FMSAC 2024.
June 21 - 29, 2024
* I will participate ISEA 2024 and present my paper “Asymmetric VR Installation and Repertoire: Time and Space in Collaborative Interaction.”
July 12 - 14th, 2024
* I will show my VR installation East Beijing Road as part of XCoAx 2024 Conference in Fabrica, Italy.
Past
December, 2023
* I am awarded Connected Minds Doctoral Scholarship starting from January 2024 up to four years. This scholarship will support my dissertation development!
https://x.com/ConnectedMinds3/status/1749854573630455928?s=20
September - December, 2023
* I am teaching undergrad class Introduction to Game Studies at OCAD
December 1st, 2023
* I will present at HASTAC Scholar digital Friday about my ongoing research on exergame
November 17th, 2023
* I will present my new VR work on progress East Beijing Road at Reel Asian Film Festival Sari Sari Xchange Symposium in Toronto.
October 11th, 2023
* I will present paper “Ludic Reenactment in Queer Game: Queer Affect and Queer Histories” at CHI Play 2023, Perspectives on Play, Stratford, Canada
October 6th, 2023
* Short paper Ludic Reenactment in Queer Game: Queer Affect and Queer Histories published as proceedings of CHI Play 2023.
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3573382.3616046
October 5th, 2023
* I am the realtime live projection designer of a performance, A HISTORY OF SILENCING DANCE, at Citadel in Toronto, by using Unreal Game Engine and NDI
August 18th, 2023
* Presenter, “A Mobile Augmented Reality Game through Critical Making: Body and Memory in the City,” ICC, (International Cartographic Association) Annual Conference, Cape Town, South Africa.
June 9th, 2023
* Presenter, “Seize: A Mobile Augmented Reality Walking Game through Critical Making,” HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) Annual Conference (Virtual Presentation), New York City.
June 3rd, 2023
* Presenter, “Touching A Disappearing Building: Asymmetric VR Installation in Storytelling,” “Reinventing the Stage” Conference, Université de Montréal.
June 2nd, 2023
* Presenter, “Game Design as an ‘Anarchival’ Practice: Queering Time and Space in Ludic Reenactment,” CCA (Canadian Communication Association) Annual Meeting 2023, York University.
June 2nd, 2023
* I present my VR work Fair Sai Re Pi VR in Futurescapes: Projects from the Coha-Gunderson Collective, The Institute of the Arts & Sciences Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA.
https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/futurescapes-projects-from-the-coha-gunderson-collective-exhibition/
May 27th, 2023
* Presenter, “Touching A Disappearing Building: Asymmetric VR Installation in Storytelling,” FMSAC (Film and Media Studies Association of Canada) 2023 Conference, York University
April 14th, 2023
* Presenter, “Connecting Through Performative Virtual Game: Game Design During the Time of Covid Lockdown in China,” 2023 Global Arts Festival Symposium: Global Art in the Digital Age, Ohio University(Virtual Presentation)
March 16th, 2023
* Presenter, “Race and Gender Formation in VRChat,” Ready Player One Conference, McMaster University