Generative / Interactive – dissonance productions

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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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 Generative / Interactive

Tan Poetry 陳韻

Tang Poetry (唐詩) is considered the Golden Age of Chinese poetry. In this series of interventions, Stephen transliterates Tang into to his surname Tan 陳 - which has multiple meanings…

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2021 Film Generative / Interactive Music

Tan-Ka

TAN-KA plays on TAN (dialect pronunciation of Chen - Stephen's last name) and KA (Egyptian hieroglyph depicting "soul" or "spirit" of a person that survives the death of the body)…

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2020 Generative / Interactive

I’M PEACHY

I 'M PEACHY is a follow-up creative coding piece to

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2019 Generative / Interactive

Pliant Desire

PLIANT DESIRE (an anagram of PRESIDENTIAL) is a creative coding piece in which 69 random Trump tweets from the onset of his presidency are sampled, broken apart, and reconstituted into…

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