`   ❥~     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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(Not A) Maze

3D Printed Object / Image
This shape resembles a maze, but is not a maze, because there is only one exit/entrance. When one sees through the deceiving surface of the maze, one would not try to solve the puzzle. 

In Buddhism, a hint of thought (一念) is the shortest unit of time. All problems could be resolved if one changes their mind in a hint of thought.

When one don’t see a problem as a problem, there is not even anything to be resolved in the first place. It’s always about how one perceives. 




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