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LiebeBitchenLieder

LiebeBitchenLieder is a postcolonial song-cycle in the lieder (art song) tradition. The art song genre flourished during the Romantic era and was performed in the parlors frequented by the privileged…

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2024 Generative / Interactive Music

SatiricAI

SatiricAI investigates the potential of Generative AI for commentary and resistance by drawing upon the historical praxis of the satirical song, in response to SingAiBore), Stephen prompts LLM (Large Language…

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2024 Generative / Interactive Music

SingAiBore

SingAiBore uses Generative AI as a tool of critique and resistance, instead of wallowing in current debates on creativity, economy, privacy etc. by using the oft-critiqued generic outputs from Generative…

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2024 Generative / Interactive Visual / Photography

HalluClichénation

HalluClichénation (portmanteau of Hallucination & Cliché) interrogates the relationships between Generative AI hallucinations (i.e. "makes stuff up") and the imagery it was trained on by generating a series of photos…

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2024 Visual / Photography

indent(ur)ed

Carvings on monuments, particularly those commissioned by rulers, typically base their themes on religious or historical epics, or glorify the royalty and the battles they have been fought. The carvings…

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2024 Visual / Photography

Phantom Selves

PHANTOM SELVES traces the origin and evolution of Thai Buddhist architecture and sculpture, particularly the large Buddha statues Thailand is known for, through temple ruins from the Sukhothai Kingdom (which…

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2024 Visual / Photography

Empty Gestures

EMPTY GESTURES draws upon the Buddhist philosophical concept of suññatā (often translated as "emptiness": which refers both to the lack of inherent existence of all things and the reality that…

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2024 Events / Performance Film Installation / Site

Look, I Bled, a Japanese Flag

Finds commonality and critique in Shintoism and tourism in their ritualized behaviours, "right" order of doing things, and their performative role as superficial markers of being a "better" person. The…

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2023 Generative / Interactive Music

DE-RAIL

A series of what Stephen terms "Shinkansen sonatas", music composed and performed on Japan shinkansen (high-speed bullet trains) in tandem with the fleeting rail-side scenery, embodying the contradictory states of…

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2023 Generative / Interactive Music

Shinkansen Suite

Shinkansen Suite comprise generative meditations on technology and progress (philosophically and literally on Shinkansen routes). The soundtrack for passing rail-side scenery is generated algorithmically via various methods, which in turn…

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2023 Events / Performance Installation / Site Visual / Photography

731 (死地酸位置)

Okunoshima is a small island located in the Seto Inland Sea of Japan in Hiroshima prefecture. The island was removed from maps when it served as a poison gas factory…

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2023 Visual / Photography

Anal-acts of Kungfu-cius

ANAL-ACTS OF KUNGFU-CIUS is a pun on "Analects of Confucius" considered the core teachings of Confucius and locus of East Asian thought and morality, that originated China and spread to…

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