Art & Research Social Media Production

From Chinese Calligraphy to Typewriting:
Decoding China's Quest for Technolinguistic Modernity

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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2025/01
Academic Research & Presentation

Diffusion Delusion Confusion

With 4 participating artists, I hosted a panel that critically explored how AI-generated imagery is transforming visual culture, examining the workings of diffusion models, their use of large-scale datasets, and their influence on new creative methods. We discussed biases within these systems, shifts in human-machine collaboration, and the wider implications for authorship, ownership, and cultural production.

Artists featured: Yufeng Zhao, Jakob Sitter, Shane Fu, Tuğrul Şalcı

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2024/06
AI Art Panel

Plant Pad

Tianran’s plant photos are at the bottom of each page, and Rui cropped out a tiny frame to put at the top. You can tear off the bottom image to give away as gifts, while the top part remains binded as an independent book or a notepad.

This lil book will travel with @sequence_giftshop to various upcoming art book fairs. All handmade ⇾ limited editions.

Photos: Tianran Qian
Design: Sirui Liao

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2025/06
Photo Art Book

Keychain Connections

Keys are symbols and tools of protection by gatekeeping. How to reimagine protection through connections instead?

Keychain Connections includes a workshop and designed objects that explore how to connect with strangers through keychains as a method.

Collaborators: Sirui Liao, Oliver Zichen Yuan
Presented at Brooklyn Art Book Fair with Sequence Gift Shop

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2024/09
Workshop, Bags, Chains

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...

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2023-ongoing
Art Publication

大 Big

Big transparent inflatable of the Chinese character “大 (big)”, taking space with air.

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2023/05
Site-specific Installation

Cheetah Skirt Photobook 豹纹书

Photobook documenting 500 women in cheetah-print skirts over 5 months, contemplating on algorithmic mediation in self-expression and the tension between agency and coercion today.

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2019.06-10, 2022/01
Photo Book

(Not A) Maze

There’s only one exit/entrance, so it’s not a maze. Questions are only problems of the mind.

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2021/11
Objects and Images