Writing

τ : The Algorithmic Unraveling

A Quartet of Critical Creative Coding / Software Art Modern software environments do not merely reflect physical space, language, landscape, or thought—they actively regulate how we inhabit them . From…

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2026 Creative Coding Writing

CunningLinguist

Counter-Grammar and the Subversion of Canon CunningLinguist is a suite of software instruments that deploy artificial intelligence, vector embeddings, multi-lingual translation pipelines, and minimalist interface design to cultivate subversive thought…

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2026 Creative Coding Visual / Photography Writing

de-Note

Semiotic Sabotage and the Subversive Logogram Language is never neutral—it is an infrastructure of authority, memory, and social control. Throughout Chinese history, the written logogram has served as both an…

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2026 Generative / Interactive Writing

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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2022 2023 Installation / Site Music Visual / Photography Writing

nūbēs obscura

Shortly before his two week backpacking traverse of Baffin Island in 2022, Stephen received the diagnosis his glaucoma had worsened rapidly and he had lost a significant chunk of his…

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2022 Writing

In(tima) Moralia

An ongoing poetry series subtitled "reflections of shattered life" Stephen grew up queer, critical and creative in a repressive and conformist "meritocratic" Asian society, and eventually ended up living in…

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2021 Writing

Dolor

Dolor (Drained of Color) is a series of distilled emotional artifacts composed as haiku tweeted in real time during a clinical depression episode. Unlike retrospective reflection, Dolor exists in the…

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2018 Installation / Site Music Visual / Photography Writing

we’re made of clay

WE'RE MADE OF CLAY alludes to common threads in creation myths and Native American ruins in the American Southwest. Like

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2017 Film Installation / Site Music Writing

Gone Dyke

GONE DYKE is a multi modal work of performance/poetry/music/photography/video that explores the queer in landscape, and the queer as landscape via the Klondike Gold Rush. At its core is an…

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2015 Events / Performance Installation / Site Writing

THE HARPY AND THE HARE

A political bedtime story. A fable for children and adults alike on preserving democratic rights and freedom of expression amidst the contemporary climate of oppression in North America. Inspired by…

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