`   ❥~     TIANRAN QIAN    ✶.✩  

Exploring how to make space in this alien aesthetic machine~

Tianran is a transdisciplinary, research-based creative practitioner born in Hangzhou, China, and currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work investigates the aesthetic mediation of digital writing, the materiality of artificial intelligence, agency and algorithmic affect, as well as space-making and community organizing practices. Her multimedia projects encompass independent publishing, photography, installation, writing, and workshops.

Professionally, she has worked as a digital talent agent and producer at the intersection of new media art and marketing. This role provided her with market-driven insights into how new media infrastructure shapes visual culture and value production, transforming urban fabric and public space.

MFA: Design and Technology
@Parsons School of Design, The New School

BA: Global Liberal Studies in Contemporary Culture and Creative Production
@ New York University


Research interests:
- computational aesthetics
- technopolitics of infrastructure
- digital writing as imperial technology
- (im)materiality and transmediality of digital media
- trasnlingual practice
- embodiment and affect
- image and value production
- human agency, space-making and creative intervention
- epistimology knowledge representation


Contact:
tianran.space@gmail.com
@_tianran_

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Tianran Qian is a transdisciplinary, research-based creative practitioner born in Hangzhou, China, and currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Her work investigates the aesthetic mediation of digital writing, the materiality of artificial intelligence, agency and algorithmic affect, as well as space-making and community organizing practices. Her multimedia projects encompass independent publishing, photography, installation, writing, and workshops.

Professionally, Tianran has served as a digital talent agent and producer at the intersection of new media art and marketing. This role provided her with market-driven insights into how new media infrastructure shapes visual culture and value production, transforming urban fabric and public space.

She holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons School of Design at The New School and a BA in Contemporary Culture and Creative Production from New York University. Tianran is the recipient of the 2023 India China Institute Student Fellowship, the Parsons Graduate Research Award, and the NYU Changemaker Social Impact Award, among others. Her creative projects have been showcased at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn Art Book Fair, SLEEPCENTER, and through self-initiated panels and presentations.

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