` ❥~ 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
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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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image and value production
- human agency, space-making and creative intervention
- epistimology 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