` ❥~ TIANRAN QIAN ✶.✩
Exploring how to make space in this alien aesthetic machine.
Research-based artist, creative strategist and producer, digital talent agent with an academic background in digital art and media theory. Professional experiences in advertising, art, and education with expertise in digital media production.
MFA: Parsons School of Design
BA: New York University
Currenty based in New York.
Research interests:
computational aesthetics, transmediality, technologies of writing , computational graphics, epistimology knowledge representation, human-AI collaboration in art, Chinese technolinguistics, comparative approaches...
tianran.space@gmail.com
@_tianran_
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Keychain Connections
Keys are symbols and tools of protection by gatekeeping. How to reimagine protection through connections instead?
Keychain Connections includes a workshop and designed objects that explore how to connect with strangers through keychains as a method.
Collaborators: Sirui Liao, Oliver Zichen Yuan
Presented at Brooklyn Art Book Fair with Sequence Gift Shop
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2024/09
Workshop, Bags, Chains
Diffusion Delusion Confusion
Artist talk panel on AI image generation and diffusion models based practices.
Artists featured: Yufeng Zhao, Jakob Sitter, Shane Fu, Tuğrul Şalcı
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2024/06
AI Art Panel
From Chinese Calligraphy to Typewriting
What happened between Chinese Calligraphy to Typewriting?
This research explores embodiment of calligraphic writing and the history of technologuistic innovations during China’s quest for modernization, and how it changed our bodies’ relationship with language in the digital age.
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2024/04
Academic Research & Presentation
Enter The Bad Object
Anarchival project on the space-making practices of Chinese community in New York through various ways of self-organizing. It features a collection of interviews documenting how they achieved content independence through self-sustainability.
...ongoing in the making...
Read more2023-ongoing
Art Publication
大 Big
Big transparent inflatable of the Chinese character “大 (big)”, taking space with air.
Read more 2023/05
Site-specific Installation
Cheetah Skirt Book 豹纹书
A collection of 500 photos from 2019 June to Oct, featuring people wearing cheetah print skirts.
Read more2019.06-10, 2022/01
Photo Book
(Not A) Maze
There’s only one exit/entrance, so it’s not a maze. Questions are only problems of the mind.
Read more2021/11
Objects and Images