Chuan Khoo is a transdisciplinary digital media artist, interaction designer and educator. His current research interest revolves around the notion of slow data – the creation of alternative interfaces that engender critical reflection around our usage of digital data. Chuan explores the consequences of computing and interrogates the twin edges of technology – its optimism, the darker side of its velocity, and the ethereal nature of our digital entanglements.

A maker at heart, Chuan develops electronic contraptions and machine intelligence to create speculations in logic and computing. Using a combination of traditional, digital media, and bespoke or hacked electronics, his work ranges from objects and installations that embody and critique technological utopias, eliciting a disarmingly calm aesthetic that veils the technological underbelly driving them. His work has been exhibited in Australia, Singapore and the United States.

As an educator, Chuan has extensive teaching experience in the areas of Interaction and Experience Design, along with Tangible Embodied Interaction and Physical Computing, espousing his core philosophy of developing balanced designers with sound critical thinking, good practical design and a technologically curious mindset. Chuan previously taught at Monash University’s Art, Design & Architecture, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and headed the Diploma in Interaction Design programme at the School of Interactive & Digital Media, Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore. He has also previously taught studios at the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts.

With two decades of design and development experience in the creative media industry, Chuan delivers digital media design/development services and consultation across interactive media and experiential installation through his creative practice: Slow Things. Chuan is based in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. He graduated with an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and holds a PhD from RMIT University's School of Design.

Chuan creates and practice on the unceded lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. He pays his respects to Elders past, present, and emerging, and extends that respect to all First Nations people.