The Waiting Machine

The Waiting Machine

By Ranran Fan

Featured: October 2022

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“The Waiting Machine” is a website and digital art project where people could go get distracted while waiting for results of any type of applications, especially the ones that involve big, complex bureaucratic systems, such as governments, companies, and universities. Ranran Fan (b. China) is a device-maker and an artist who works in photography, new media, installation, and performance. She invents various devices as solutions to explore the absurd existence of the free individual female subject under an oppressive political and patriarchal environment. Through these devices, she is able to create a separate world as an alternative mode of existence.

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Ranran Fan (b. China) is an artist currently based in the US, working primarily in photography, installation and performance. Ranran earned a BFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BS in Biology in Hong Kong, and is pursuing a MFA at the University of New Mexico Studio Art. Her work has been exhibited internationally including Academy Art Museum, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe Art Institute, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal (China), and Incheon Marine Asia Photography and Video Festival. Ranran has been nominated as a SITE Scholar at SITE Santa Fe (2020). She received several awards including Student Award for Innovations in Imaging at Society for Photographic Education (U.S., 2019), and the Shiseido Photographer Prize at Three Shadows Photography Art Centre (China, 2018).

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