Alan Nguyen

Dr Alan Nguyen

Lecturer, Media

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Contact details

DSCSchool of Media and Communication


Care-full Design Lab

Screen and Sound Cultures Group


Emailalan.nguyen@rmit.edu.au


Campus: Melbourne City


Programs

Profile photo of Alan Nguyen smiling towards the camera against a solid blue background

Contact details

DSCSchool of Media and Communication


Care-full Design Lab

Screen and Sound Cultures Group


Emailalan.nguyen@rmit.edu.au


Campus: Melbourne City


Programs

Dr Alan Nguyen is a writer, director and designer working in TV and new and emerging technologies.

Overview

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.

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Research keywords

Co-design, Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Scriptwriting, Filmmaking, Extended reality, Virtual reality, Augmented reality, Documentary, Educational games, Serious Games, Social media, Metaverse

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Supervisor interest areas

  • Scriptwriting
  • Filmmaking
  • Extended reality
  • Virtual reality
  • Augmented reality
  • Documentary
  • Educational games
  • Social media
  • Metaverse

Feature publications

Beescapes

BeeScapes

Nguyen, A.,Dyer, A.,Garcia Mendoza, J.,Andrews, S. (2021).

Press Freedom and the Global Economy: The Cost of Slipping Backwards

Journalism Studies, 22, 399 - 417

Nguyen, J.,Valadkhani, A.,Nguyen, A.,Wake, A. (2021). 

Hungry Ghosts

Hungry Ghosts

Nguyen, A. (2020).

Key publications by year

  • Nguyen, J.,Valadkhani, A.,Nguyen, A.,Wake, A. (2021). Press Freedom and the Global Economy: The Cost of Slipping Backwards In: Journalism Studies, 22, 399 - 417
  • Nguyen, A.,Dyer, A.,Garcia Mendoza, J.,Andrews, S. (2021). BeeScapes In: BeeScapes Melbourne, Australia

  • Nguyen, A. (2020). Hungry Ghosts In: Hungry Ghosts Sydney, Australia

  • Geck, K.,Nguyen, A.,Choi, J.,Tran-Nam, A.,Jenatsch, D. (2019). Musical Motions In: RMIT and City of Melbourne 'Design for the Sensory City’ Prize Melbourne, Australia

  • Nguyen, A. (2017). The Exaltation of Enheduanna In: The Exaltation of Enheduanna Adelaide, Australia
  • Nguyen, J., Nguyen, A. (2017). The Moon was a Telephone into which I was Screaming In: Cyber Electric 2017 Melbourne, Australia 

  • Nguyen, A. (2016). Firebird In: 2016 Portland Film Festival Portland, USA
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Grants

  • Melodic Motions. Funded by: Department of Social Services grants 2014 onwards from (2021 to 2022)
  • Polyphonic Motions. Funded by: Australia Council for the Arts Re-imagine: Sector Recovery Initiatives from (2021 to 2022)
  • BeeScapes (Part B). Funded by: Creative Victoria, VicArts Grant from (2020 to 2021)
  • Beescapes (Part A). Funded by: City of Melbourne Arts Grant from (2020 to 2021)
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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 'Luwaytini' by Mark Cleaver, Palawa.

aboriginal flag
torres strait flag

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.