Dr. Alan Nguyen
Lecturer
Details
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College: School of Media & Communication
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Department: School - Media & Communication
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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alan.nguyen@rmit.edu.au
Open to
- Media enquiries
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Dr Alan Nguyen is a writer, director and designer working in TV and new and emerging technologies.
Alan 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.
Alan 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.
Supervisor projects
- Subverting Sensors: Interrogating the Sensor Society through Critical Mixed Reality Practice
- 27 Jun 2023
- Generating (Dis)Comfort: A focussed exploration into the in-between and the generation of powerful audience experiences in screen media
- 19 Jun 2023
- Voiceworld: Exploring Vocal Ecology and Speech Synthesis through Practice
- 6 Jan 2022
- The Code of Things: Biographical Poetry in Print and Programmable Media
- 19 Oct 2020
Teaching interests
Supervisor interest areas:
Scriptwriting
Filmmaking
Extended reality
Virtual reality
Augmented reality
Documentary
Educational games
Social media
Metaverse
Program:
Bachelor of Communication (Media) (https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/media)
Scriptwriting
Filmmaking
Extended reality
Virtual reality
Augmented reality
Documentary
Educational games
Social media
Metaverse
Program:
Bachelor of Communication (Media) (https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/media)
Research interests
Research keywords
Co-design, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Scriptwriting, Filmmaking, Extended reality, Virtual reality, Augmented reality, Documentary, Educational games, Serious Games, Social media, Metaverse
Co-design, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Scriptwriting, Filmmaking, Extended reality, Virtual reality, Augmented reality, Documentary, Educational games, Serious Games, Social media, Metaverse
