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Ariana’s professional experience spans various roles across fine arts, audio and video production, and media education. As an audio maker, they have worked as a story editor and sound designer for long-form narrative work, and as a consultant for forthcoming narrative audio projects. They regularly produce their own independent audio documentary works and visual projects. They gravitate toward experimental, multimedia collaborations that call upon a variety of skillsets.

Ariana has created original work for broadcast on BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio 3, WFMU, and KCRW; worked on long-form narrative audio projects for Magnificent Noise, Pineapple Street Studios, and Audible Originals; and executed multimedia projects for The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Arizona State University, and the Ohio Valley Resource. They have created editorial illustrations for New York Public Radio’s Death, Sex, & Money, The Conversationalist, and The Games and Online Harassment Hotline.

Ariana is a dedicated media educator and has taught for New York University, the City University of New York, The Salt Institute for Documentary Study at the Maine College of Art, UnionDocs, AIR Media’s SoundPath, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and AS220 Industries.

Ariana’s multimedia artwork has appeared at the Barbican Cultural Centre (London, UK), the Open City Documentary Festival (London, UK), the Third Coast International Audio Festival (Chicago, IL), the HearSay Audio Arts Festival (Kilfinane, Ireland), LUCIA Festival (Florence, Italy), BANGUOJA audio festival (Lithuania), and elsewhere.

Ariana has published writing on sound, art making, and creative practice with Transom, Earlid, and WEIRD NOISE. They are among the founding editorial board members of Sound Fields, a new platform for rigorous discussion of audio documentary theory and practice.