Annie Wan

Dr Annie WAN is an international digital media scholar, primarily research interests in adopting extended realities technologies for well-being and for social good. In 2012 she earned a Doctor of Philosophy at the University of Washington, United States (one of the Public Ivies, ranked 16th best in the World (ARWU 2020)), in Digital Arts and Experimental Media. She grew up in Singapore and UK, has been living in Sweden and the US. Wan was a Course Leader of BA Virtual Reality in the University of the Arts London, an Assistant Professor in Hong Kong Baptist University and Hong Kong Education University. She was the Principle Investigator of a European Commission’s European Regional Development Fund funded project, ACE IT, which supports London-based start-ups and SMEs to conceptualise, research and develop innovative products and services in the area of virtual/ augmented/ mixed reality/ mobile solutions in 2020-2022. Her creative works have been exhibited in festivals in Europe, Asia and North America, including Hong Kong Human Rights Art Prize 2018,  Art Neureau: A neuroscience- inspired art show in Seattle in 2017, The Hong Kong Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB), Hong Kong in 2015, Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards 2012 (Hong Kong, China) and International Festival of Creativity, Ogaki Biennale 2010 (Ogaki, Japan), Innovation & Digital Culture (Canary Islands, Spain), ZeroOne/ ISEA 2006 (San Jose, United States), French Pavilion in 10th Venice Architecture Biennale (Venice, Italy), Art +Communication Festival 2004 (Riga, Latvia), Multimedia Art Asia Pacific Conference 2004 (Singapore), etc. Other past collaborators include West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, Hong Kong Museum of Art and Hong Kong’s Leisure and Cultural Services Department, The Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Department of Psychology on the Hong Kong’s first IT platform for mental health and well-being.