` homepage❥~ 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, 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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Art & Research Social Media Media Production
Independent Art Fair
@independent_hq
Social content produdction for Indendent Art Fair.
2025/11 -
Museums Moving Forward
@museumsmovingforward
Supported digital strategy and created social content for Museums Moving Forward, an independent, limited-life organization devoted to envisioning and creating a more just museum sector by 2030.
In a month, it received over 300k views, over 2000 shares and reposts, and 1500+ followers.
2025/10 -
Protocinema
@protocinema
Digital strategy and content creation for Protocinema, with Emerging Curator Series 2025-2026.
Protocinema is arts organization that collaborates with artists to create artworks, events + mentorship programs exploring shared human experiences, founded in 2011.
2025/11 -
Arrival Art Fair
@arrival.art
Created social content and digital strategy for Arrival Art Fair, a biannual hotel art fair at TOURIST hotel in North Adams, MA.
From curatorial and programming spotlight, local lodging and art scene recommendations, to on-site live event coverage and press report, the account grew over 3000 organic followers in 3 months.
2025/03 - 06
Canyon Museum
@canyon.ny
Opening 2026 in NYC’s lower east side, Canyon is a new 40,000-square-foot cultural venue devoted to video, sound, performance, and other forms of durational art.
Role: Digital strategy, content production, research & analysis
2025/03 -
Art In General
@art_in_general
Art in General is an non-profit art organization that presents boundary-pushing artworks, ideas, and practices. By engaging with the art of our time and cultivating mutual care and collective responsibility, we empower artists and their collaborators to take risks through radical experimentation.
Role: Content production
2025/05 -
Young Gifted and Black Art
@younggiftedblackart
Created copy content for this platform founded by collector Bernard Lumpkin to champion emerging Black artists, featuring weekly artist and exhibition content
to increase
2025/01 - now
Shah Garg Founcation
@shahgargfoundation
Created copy and visual content for Shah Garg Foundation’s new traveling exhibition featuring its own contemporary art collection.
2025/01 - now
Maintenance Artist Documentary
@maintenanceartist
Managed the social media presence for the documentary Maintenane Artist, the story of essential workers and radical artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles during the cultural upheavals of the last half century.2025/06 - 07
Sequence Giftshop
@sequence_giftshop
Managed my artist collective’s account, tracking our independent publishing practice and art-book-fair tours while maintaining a coherent visual identity that reached 450 organic followers in three months.
2025/04 -
OUTPUT
@theoutputofficial
OUTPUT is a digital art platform that connected global digital creatives network to the Chinese market. I worked first as an artist agent and project producer, and then utilized my knowledge on digital art content for social media management, expanding OUTPUT’s global reach.
2022/08 - 2024/04
ChART Contemporary
@chart_contemporary
Curated and created content for ChART Contemporary consulting, boosting the consultancy’s following by 40% (2,000 new followers in two months) through a mix of artist Q&As and collector-focused explainers. 2019/02 - 05