Visual / Photography

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 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 Creative Coding Visual / Photography

InstaAether

Algorithmic Ideation and the Fabricated Horizon In an era dominated by social media curation, the camera is no longer a tool for documentative recording; it is an engine of hyper-real…

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2024 Visual / Photography

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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2024 Visual / Photography

Man.gad

An ongoing experimental manga. A recontextualization of German philosopher and cultural critic Walter Benjamin's Passagenwerk, a collection of writings on the city life of Paris in the 19th century and its iron-and-glass covered…

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2024 Visual / Photography

soot(he)

soot(he) is a meditation on quiet presence and elemental landscape. Exploring the dichotomy of immigrant and indigenous culture, Stephen Chen develops his own ink brush / sumi painting style and…

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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

INDENT(UR)ED brings forward the often-overlooked human presence within monumental histories, focussing on the often-overlooked carvings representing scenes of daily life carved into the grand bas-reliefs of the Bayon temple at…

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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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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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