` 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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Art & Research Social Media Media Production
Independent Art Fair
@independent_hq
Social media strategy for the 2026 Independent Art Fair, gaining 4800+ followers and over 1.1 million views for the May Fair.
Role: content production, video editing, Chinese social media management (RedNote, WeChat)
Team: Jiajia Fei2025/11 - now
Protocinema
@protocinema
Digital strategy and content creation for Protocinema Emerging Curator Series 2025-2026, and its 2026 exhibition Mulberry Bend.
Protocinema is an arts organization that collaborates with artists to create artworks, events + mentorship programs exploring shared human experiences, founded in 2011.
Role: social media strategy and management, content creation, copy writing
2026/02 - now
2025/10 - 11
Making Their Mark Founcation
@makingtheirmarkorg
Website design and development, and social media content creation for Making Their Mark, a touring exhibition, public, and converstaion series of art by women from the Shah Garg Collection.
Role: Website design, social content production, live reporting
Team: Jiajia Fei
2025/01 - now
Young Gifted and Black Art
@younggiftedblackart
Social media management for a nation-wide touring exhibition, publication, and digital platform featuring works by young artists of African descent from The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art.
Role: Copy writing
Team: Jiajia Fei
2025/01 - now
Museums Moving Forward
@museumsmovingforward
Supported digital strategy and created social content for Museums Moving Forward (MMF), an independent, limited-life organization devoted to envisioning and creating a more just museum sector by 2030.
In one month, MMF received over 300k views, over 2000 shares and reposts, and 1500+ followers.
Role: digital strategy, content creation, copy writing
Team: Jiajia Fei
2025/09 - 12
EVA Foundation
@evafoundation.art
Situated in the heart of Bucharest, within a renovated 1930s townhouse, EVA Foundation's collection is a celebration of women artists and their indelible mark on art history.
Role: Social media strategy development, content production, copywriting.
Team: Digital Counsel2025/12
Arrival Art Fair
@arrival.artSocial media strategy for the first edition of the Arrival Art Fair, a new biennial art fair in North Adams, Massachusetts,
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.
Role: digital strategy, content creation
Team: Jiajia Fei2025/03 - 06
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 creation
Team: Jiajia Fei
2025/05 -
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 creation, R&D
Team: Jiajia Fei
2025/03 -
Maintenance Artist Documentary
@maintenanceartist
Social media strategy 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.
Role: social media strategy and management, content creation, copy writing
2025/06 - 08
2026/04 - 05
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 - now
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