` ❥~ TIANRAN QIAN ✶.✩
Research-based creative practioner, strategist, producer, and digital talent agent.
Exploring how to hack for space in this alien aesthetic machine.
Currenty based in New York
Research interests:
computational aesthetics, text-image transmediality, word concept relations, epistimology knowledge representation, print to electronic texuality, digital image, human-AI collaboration in art, Chinese calligraphy, comparative approaches...
tianran.space@gmail.com
@_tianran_
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Diffusion Delusion Confusion
Practice sharing panel on diffusion models and AI image generation.
Artists featured: Yufeng Zhao, Jakob Sitter, Shane Fu, Tuğrul Şalcı
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2024/06
Panel, art + tech + theory
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
Research & Academic Conference
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
Self-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
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