Dr Alan Nguyen
Lecturer, Media
Lecturer, Media
DSC | School of Media and Communication
Screen and Sound Cultures Group
Email: alan.nguyen@rmit.edu.au
Campus: Melbourne City
DSC | School of Media and Communication
Screen and Sound Cultures Group
Email: alan.nguyen@rmit.edu.au
Campus: Melbourne City
Dr Alan Nguyen is an international-award-winning media producer and designer. He writes for TV and streaming (Disney+, Apple TV, NBCU, ABC, SBS), live performance (Melbourne Theatre Company, Arts House) and works with new and emerging technologies, such as AI, VR and AR (Australia Council for the Arts, EyeJack).
Alan is interested in transdisciplinary projects and the use of storytelling and new technologies to promote well-being, education and social connection.
Film, TV & Streaming
Alan was a Best Miniseries double nominee for the Australian Film Institute's AACTA Awards and the Australian Writers Guild's AWGIE Awards for his writing on the 4 x 1 hour limited series Hungry Ghosts (NBC Universal/ SBS Australia/ Matchbox Pictures) now available on Apple TV. His most recent screenwriting is on the Disney+ series Last Days of the Space Age, to be released in 2024.
Digital, XR & Interactive
Alan leads a research team on Melodic Motions, involving the co-design of an interactive, gesture-based collaborative tool with and for dancers with intellectual disabilities (Department of Social Services). He is the co-Digital Lead of 'Eat Move Heal' a multi-College collaborative research project with external partners Northern Health, City of Whittlesea and SaferCare Victoria, which aims to co-design support tools for patients recovering from Long COVID-19.
Alan wrote, directed and produced VR nature documentary BeeScapes (People's Choice Award 2022, Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories), served as writer and editor for groundbreaking AR comic book Razorlegs Volume 2 (published by EyeJack), and was VR designer for videographic opera The Exaltation of Enheduanna (Arts South Australia). A sequel to BeeScapes will be exhibited at the World Museum, Liverpool UK May 2024 - May 2025.
Lecturer & Academic
As a media academic, Alan has delivered presentations at international conferences in Japan, Singapore and Korea.
Co-design, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Scriptwriting, Filmmaking, Extended reality, Virtual reality, Augmented reality, Documentary, Educational games, Serious Games, Social media, Metaverse
BeeScapes
Nguyen, A.,Dyer, A.,Garcia Mendoza, J.,Andrews, S. (2021).
Journalism Studies, 22, 399 - 417
Nguyen, J.,Valadkhani, A.,Nguyen, A.,Wake, A. (2021).
Hungry Ghosts
Nguyen, A. (2020).
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.