Conste(rn/ll)ation

Conste(rn/ll)ation

Conste(rn/ll)ation reconsiders the so-called “Silk Road” through the older and less romantic framework of the Jade Road — the networks that moved nephrite from the rivers of Hotan and the…

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Gone Dyke Sparks

Gone Dyke Sparks

Gone Dyke Sparks transforms poetry written during the earlier Gone Dyke project (9 years ago) into a web-based musical sculpture composed of drifting embers, ash, and fleeting filaments of light.…

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2560 1326 dissonance productions
Songwriter Almanac

Songwriter Almanac

Coincidentally the day Stephen completed his Songwriter Almanac GPT was the same day Trump initiated war with Iran. Originally designed as a corollary to

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1536 1024 dissonance productions
山水颂 Shan Shui

山水颂 Shan Shui

山水颂 (Odes to Shan Shui) draws directly from the tradition of shan shui painting—mountain and water as more than scenery, as cosmology and moral space. In classical scrolls, the human…

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chansNon-sequitur

chansNon-sequitur

chansNon-sequitur is a body of work in which song becomes an administrative afterimage: a place where authority, genre, and affect continue to operate even after meaning has failed. The project…

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COLORED BLIND

COLORED BLIND

It began with a well-meaning, if misguided comment, from a White person that I should pursue a MFA to work towards Documenta and Biennale. "Your ideas will jump to a…

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Atomic Memory Auditor

Atomic Memory Auditor

Atomic Memory Auditor operates at the intersection of archival reconstruction and moral repair. It is both an instrument and an argument: an evidence-based counter-memory engine built from fragments of text,…

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TokenAIze

TokenAIze

TokenAIze is an exploration of reduction — a poetic instrument that mirrors the logic of the system that created it. In artificial intelligence, meaning is not stored as wholes but…

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Counterfactual Archive

Counterfactual Archive

The Counterfactual Archive operates at the threshold between history and invention, where documentation becomes a site of speculation. It treats the archive not as a repository of truth, but as…

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Ai Chink

Ai Chink

Ai Chink is a project that stages a collision between AI and the I Ching, the ancient Chinese Book of Changes. The title is intentionally abrasive: a linguistic short-circuit that…

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1344 768 dissonance productions
Died of Spurn

Died of Spurn

Died of Spurn is an interactive music project based on De Profundis, Oscar Wilde’s letter written while he was imprisoned in Reading Gaol. The title is an anagram of De…

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2560 1706 dissonance productions
kampfUnkraut

kampfUnkraut

kampfUnkraut (literally fighting weeds) is a visual exploration of resilience, adaptation, and overlooked forms of life that persist in the margins of social and economic systems. Using false-color infrared imagery,…

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2048 1536 dissonance productions