Leon Tan
Bio
Dr Leon Tan (MBACP, UK) is a media art historian, cultural theorist and psychoanalyst based in Gothenburg, Sweden. He was previously a tenured lecturer in psychotherapy and lecturer in art history in Auckland, New Zealand, and served as a founding member of the New Zealand Centre for Lacanian Analysis. He has published articles in the American Journal of Psychotherapy, C Theory and the Journal of the New Zealand Association of Psychotherapists, as well as a chapter in The Use of Technology in Mental Health (Thomas, 2011). He has also curated new media performance installations at Digital Arts Week (Zurich) and ISEA (Singapore), and a symposium on animal aesthetics at the Royal Institute of Art (Stockholm).