Alan Nguyen

Dr Alan Khoi Nguyen is an international award-winning filmmaker, artist, designer, and researcher. He creates for screen (SBS, NBCU, Apple TV+), live performance (MTC, Asia TOPA), and works with new and emerging technologies (National Museums Liverpool, EyeJack). Alan is passionate about interdisciplinary projects and the use of storytelling and technology to promote complex understandings of the world and encourage social and ecological connection.

NARRATIVE: 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 × 1-hour limited series Hungry Ghosts (NBC Universal/SBS Australia), now available on Apple TV+.

TECHNOLOGY: 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 directed Anthophilia, a video installation depicting bee sensory perception, exhibited as part of 'BEES: A Story of Survival' at the World Museum, National Museums Liverpool, UK, 2024–2025, set to tour the US, Canada, and NZ. Alan wrote, directed, and produced VR nature documentary BeeScapes (People's Choice Award 2022, FIVARS: Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories, Toronto), served as writer and editor for groundbreaking AR comic book Razorlegs Volume 2 (EyeJack), and was VR designer for videographic opera The Exaltation of Enheduanna (Arts South Australia).

LECTURER: Alan leads studios in RMIT's Media Program BP221, recently focused on AI and its ethical and critical use in media practices: Automatic For The People (2023, w/ Dr. Joel Stern), Together in Electric Dreams (2024 & 2025, w/ Dr. Joel Stern), Performing Futures (2024, w/ Dr. Sam McGilp), and (AI) Feature Film (2025). As a media academic, Alan has delivered presentations at conferences in Japan, Singapore, and Korea.