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Professionally Publishing & Presenting since 2006

With 9 publications in books and top-tier academic journals, and original research presented at 11 international conferences, Lian's professional scholarship spans the fields of new media, games, art history, and performance. More recently, she focused on the intersection of art and law as a 2011 Art & Law Writing Resident with Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.

Ably transitioning from academic research to entertaining content for the general public, Lian used her blog Silicon Valley Ryan Gosling to become a contributor for The Next Web. Another favorite ongoing project of hers is Snacks Digest, which she writes with Thomas Patrick Naughton.

Produced Playwright

Lian has authored 4 original full-length plays and performances that have been professionally produced at such venues as The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, HERE Arts Center, The University of Chicago, P.S. 122, the New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, and The University of Massachusetts.

Copywriting & Branding

Since 2010, Lian has written copy for products, one-sheets, and pitch decks for several companies and projects including Evotee and Cofounderly. Her efficient language is always compelling, memorable and on-brand.

Editor

Lian spent 2006-08 and 2011 as a researcher and editor for media theorist Douglas Rushkoff. Books she has worked on with him include Program or be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age; Life, Inc.: How the World Became A Corporation and How To Take It Back; and Get Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out.

  • “Calendar Art: How the 1968 SNCC Wall Calendar Brought Activism Indoors” in Activism in Modern U.S. Print Culture. Ed. Rachel Schreiber. Ashgate. 2012.
  • “Seriously Fun: Marketing and the Gaming Experience of Nolan’s The Dark Knight” in S(t)imulated Realities: The Hyperreal in Popular Culture. Ed. Robin DeRosa. McFarland Publishing. 2011.
  • "Fragmented Self-Portraits: How the Historical Avant-Garde Foretold Online Identity Construction" in Digital Visual Culture: Intersections and Interactions in 21st Century Art Education. The National Art Education Association. 2011.
  • “Mourning Amongst the Famous: Madame Tussaud’s Wax Memorial of 9/11” in 9/11 in Popular Culture. Praeger. 2010.
  • “Directing Feminism: The Experience of Ellen McLaughlin’s The Trojan Women” in Beyond Burning Bras: Feminist Activism for Everyone. Eds. Laura Finley and Emily Reynolds Stringer. Praeger. 2010.

  • “Approaching an Analog-Digital Dialectic: The Case of The Blue Man Group.” Theatre Journal. John Hopkins University Press. December, 2009. 563-573. Refereed article.
  • “Biting Off the Tongue of Discourse: How Sarah Kane's 4:48 Psychosis Performs as Hélène Cixous's Laughing Medusa.” Journal of Drama Studies. Viva Books. Spring 2009. Refereed article.
  • “Beauty and the Street: 72 Hours in Union Square, NYC.” TDR: The Drama Review. The MIT Press. Winter 2008. Solicited article.
  • “Sorry for your loss: Grieving and Griefing in World of Warcraft.” Explorations in Media Ecology. Hampton Press. Fall 2006. Solicited article.

  • 2011 Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts: Art and Law Symposium, "Art Beyond the Centerfold: Copyright, Cultural Restriction, and Playboy" as part of 2011 Art and Law Writing Residency.
  • 2011 Brooklyn Museum Academic Symposium: “From Portraits to Pin-ups: Representations of Women in Art and Popular Culture.” Symposium organizer, curator, and moderator.
  • 2009 Popular Culture Association Conference, New Orleans, LA (Panel Chair): “Seriously Fun: Viral Marketing and the Gaming Experience of Nolan's The Dark Knight”
  • 2009 Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston University, MA: “'Immediate and Painful:' How Guido Crepax's Graphic Novel Venus in Furs Performs Artaud's Concept of Cruelty”
  • 2008 Radical Philosophy Association Conference, San Francisco State University, CA: “Biting Off the Tongue of Discourse: How Sarah Kane's 4:48 Psychosis Performs as Hélène Cixous's Laughing Medusa
  • 2008 Association of Theatre in Higher Education, Denver, CO: “Beautiful Street Theater: 72 hours on the Union Square Traffic Island, NYC”
  • 2008 Berkeley Big Bang New Media Symposium, University of California at Berkeley, CA: “Female Embodiment and New Media” (Invited Artist Talk)
  • 2008 International Colloquium On Tourism & Leisure, Chiang Mai, Thailand: “Performing the Red Carpet: The Production of Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum as the Tourism of Celebrity”
  • 2008 Popular Culture Association Conference, San Francisco, CA: “Beauty And The Street: Performing the Private for New York City”
  • 2008 Sarah Kane Reassessments Conference, University of Cambridge, England: “’Look away from me’: How Sarah Kane’s 4:48 Psychosis performs as Hélène Cixous’s Laughing Medusa”
  • 2006 Media Ecology Association Conference, Boston College, MA: “Sorry for your loss: Grieving and Griefing in World of Warcraft”

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