Dean Chan
Dr Dean Chan is the founding convenor of INDAAR. He is Senior Lecturer in Digital Communication in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communication at the University of Wollongong, Australia. Prior to this, he was Lecturer in Visual Culture (1999-2011) and Postdoctoral Fellow in Asian Digital Media (2004-2007) at Edith Cowan University in Perth. At present, he is also Associate Editor of Studies in Comics (Intellect Journals UK).
His research centres on digital communication (especially gaming and social media) and visual culture (especially contemporary art and comics) in the Asia-Pacific region, focussing on East Asian contexts and diasporic Asian issues. Recent publications include the co-edited book Gaming Cultures and Place in Asia-Pacific (New York: Routledge, 2009) and the co-edited special issue of Amerasia Journal (2010) entitled “Asian Australia and Asian America: Making Transnational Connections”.
Dean has been invited to speak at numerous conferences and arts symposia including The Body Politic Conference 2004, Arc Biennial Symposium 2007, and Encounters III: China 2010; and in 2011, he delivered keynote addresses at The Future of Asian Art, a symposium at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU in New York, and the 22nd ISANA International Education Association Conference in Hobart. In February 2012, he is an invited Visiting Scholar at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, Canada.
He has previously served on the boards of the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Artists' Regional Exchange (ARX) and Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ).