dissonance productions – Page 3 – art for awareness, advocacy, & action

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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2022 Visual / Photography

W(rit)ing

W(rit)ing is a series of false-infrared aerial images that make the earth look like a sheet of paper. From above, landscapes start to resemble ink splashes, scribbles, cross-hatching, and casual…

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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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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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2021 Visual / Photography

deBorder

deBorder explores boundaries as unstable, permeable conditions rather than fixed lines. Abstract landscapes using splashed sumi and acrylic inks on xuan (rice paper) mounted on cotton rag paper - simultaneously…

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2020 Installation / Site Music

Music Boxed

Capturing the zeitgeist of confinement and tedium quarantine, Stephen transposes his musical compositions onto a programmable music box mechanism. manually marking out and punching out the notes onto the card…

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2020 Visual / Photography

E.Mo.

E.Mo. (Mountains) is a series shaped by distance—between the self and the natural world, between desire and access. Created during quarantine using expired paints, the work reflects an inability to…

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2020 Visual / Photography

PASCAL

PASCAL (People Against Skin Color And Love) is a pentaptych of fluid paintings that express the zeitgeist of current BLM (Black Lives Matter) struggle during Pride month - paralleling the…

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2020 Events / Performance Film

Co-videos

Co-videos is a video performance series born from the collective isolation of the early 2020 quarantine—capturing the zeitgeist of confinement, mediation, and self-presentation for each month in quarantine utilizing consumer…

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2020 Generative / Interactive

I’M PEACHY

A creative coding piece in which a RNN (Recurrent Neural Network) using LSTM (Long Short Term Memory) is trained on Trump’s tweets during his impeachment process

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2019 Visual / Photography

KunstFach

KunstFach is a visual language intervention that reclaims expression from the margins of institutional and academic artistic criteria. Drawing on the pun between Kunst (art) and Fach (compartment) in German,…

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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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