Media Arts & Sciences and Music major
Improvisation is at the core of my creative practice. I treat every project as an open-ended exploration shaped by both intuition and structure. To me, improvisation is not about spontaneity for its own sake, but about experimentation within boundaries, to stretch familiar forms into new expressions.
As an artist and musician, I move fluidly across disciplines, responding to each moment, medium, and material. My work blends music, visual art, and digital media into layered, sensory experiences. I am especially drawn to the hidden rhythms and visual patterns embedded in everyday life, using each medium as a way to tell stories and trace emotion.
With a background in Media Arts & Sciences and Music, my practice bridges the technical and the expressive. I create digital instruments, produce genre-crossing music, and design interactive installations that respond to space and audience. At the heart of it all is a simple intention: to find meaning in the ordinary and invite others into that sense of attentiveness and discovery. To let a picture speak a thousand words, and a note, a thousand sentences.
video and website
Jewett Hallway Galleries
This project explores synesthesia as a framework for sensory storytelling, inviting non-synesthetes to experience the world through a fused lens of sound, color, and emotion. Through a series of video compositions and interactive media built in MAX/MSP, the work creates cross-sensory experiences that blur the lines between hearing, seeing, and feeling. Drawing from personal observations and patterns found in everyday life, each piece invites the audience into a heightened state of attentiveness: where a color can carry rhythm, a sound can hold feelings, and meaning emerges from feeling in the blank.
to see more work by Amie: amietian.com and @amietian.jpg