Dean Chan teaches in the honours and postgraduate programmes at the School of Communications and Arts, Edith Cowan University, in Perth, Western Australia. His research and publication interests mainly focus on Asian Australian cultural production and East Asian digital games. At present, he is working on a number of projects focusing on Asian Australian and Asian American visual arts, as well as completing a book manuscript titled “Play Asia: Politics, Practices, and Play in Asian Digital Game Cultures.” Dean has been invited to speak at several national conferences and arts symposia including the 2007 Arc Biennial Symposium; and he is regularly commissioned to write for art journals, monographs, and exhibition catalogues. He has previously served on the boards of Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Artists Regional Exchange (ARX), and Art Association of Australia and New Zealand. Dean is currently a Chief Investigator on an ARC Discovery project ("Being Asian in Australia and the United States") with Tseen Khoo and Jacqueline Lo.
The AASRN is a formal network for academic, community and other institutional groups who research in the area of Asian Australian Studies.
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