Liang TAN

Liang Tan is professor of digital media design program at Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts. He received his PhD in interaction design from School of Design at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, MFA in digital media design from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, and BA in Graphic Design from Hunan University of Technology respectively. He has 18 years’ experience in teaching and project practice related to interaction design and digital media art. In 2004, he started to teach at GAFA and was promoted to associate professor in 2013. He is visiting professor and PhD supervisor of design program at several universities, such as Macao University of Science and Technology and Southern University of Science and Technology. From 2009 to 2010, he was a visiting scholar at Art School of Aix-en-Provence in France where he studied creative coding and participated in several projects of public interactive installation. He has undertaken several government-funded research projects and published a series of academic books and papers. His book Processing Interactive Programming Art is one of the most popular publications of digital media education in China. His design projects include new media installation design in China Hall of 2005 Japan world EXPO and 2010 Shanghai world EXPO. He also coordinated several collaboration workshops between GAFA and PolyU Design, Berlin Weissensee School of Art in Germany, Singapore Nanyang Polytechnic. His current research interests include embodied interaction design, digital media art, and metaverse art.