` homepage❥~ TIANRAN QIAN ✶.✩
Exploring how to make space in this alien aesthetic machine~
Tianran works in digital marketing for art and cultural institutions, alongside project management for a design and production studio. She used to work as a digital talent agent and producer, specializing in new media and creative technologies.
Tianran is also a transdisciplinary creative practitioner. Her work investigates the aesthetic mediation of digital writing, the materiality of artificial intelligence, and urban space-making practices. Her multimedia projects encompass independent publishing, photography, installation, writing, and workshops.
Tianran was
born in Hangzhou, China, and currently based in Brooklyn, New York.
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, infrastructure
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digital writing as imperial technology
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(im)materiality and transmediality of digital media
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trasnlingual practice
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embodiment and affect
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meaning making and value production
- human agency, space-making and creative intervention
- epistimology and knowledge representation
Contact:
tianran.space@gmail.com
@_tianran_
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Workshop: Keychain Access
2024.09.22
Brooklyn Art Book Fair @Recess Art
2024.08.24
@SLEEPCENTER
Collaborators:
Sirui Liao
Oliver Zichen Yuan
Presented with:
Sequence Gift Shop
Keychain Connections is a series or work that explore the functionality and symbolism of keychains. It is comprised of designed objects and a workshop that explore keychains potential to connect rather than to gatekeep for protection.
Since 2022, Keychain Access (by Oliver Zichen Yuan) has indiscriminately collected images, sounds, and stories of found keychains: be it a key unlocking a door to which one shouldn’t have access or a souvenir left unnoticed for years from a far-flung relationship. These ordinarily tiny objects, chained together, mark our subconscious relationships with the vast world, and Keychain Access sets out to uncover these not-so-obvious narratives.
Here, guests are invited to foster new meanings, new identities, and new connections by showing and telling our keychains with each other. Through a series of group activities, one-on-one conversations, and collective imagination, Keychain Access: Workshop will reintroduce keychains not only as vehicles for personal experiences but also as linkages for transpersonal understandings that nurture connection and care. In this exploration of intimacy and otherness, we just may find a sense of unity in an era marked by disconnection.
⬇️ Workshop: Keychain Access @ Brooklyn Art Book Fair
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⬇️ Workshop: Keychain Access @ SLEEPCENTER
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⬇️ Merchandises: Keychain Draw String Bags