About Speaker

Fangnan Ma is an animator, illustrator, game designer and a Ph. D candidate in Wuhan University of Technology (China), she got a bachelor of Art in Huazhong Normal University and a MFA at Wuhan University of Technology. Her table-top game iChing Fortunetelling was nominated in IndieCade 2017 and shown at The Japanese-American Museum in Los Angeles to the public at the first time. She also worked as a visiting scholar at Northeastern University in the college of Art, Media and Design in 2018, where she met many talented game designers and researchers in Boston. Now, she works and lives in Wuhan and Shanghai. Her research interests is digital experimental animation and the new media art, which is also the theme of her dissertation. She is planning to combine the indie game she designed with some digital art form and remake it when she finished her Ph. D dessertation.