dissonance productions

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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Co-videos

Capturing the zeitgeist of performance and mediation in isolation for each month in quarantine utilizing consumer webcams for motion capture; bringing together COVID anxiety, social media singing, quarantine, and animals…

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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

Playing off the homonymic puns of Kunst (art) and Fach (compartment) and German compound words, Stephen creates new German compound swear words pertinent to the experiences of contemporary life using…

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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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2018 Installation / Site Music Visual / Photography

Aye Few Clamored

An anagram and extension of WE’RE MADE OF CLAY, AYE FEW CLAMORED retraces the migrations and colonizations of Native Americans on the Colorado Plateau.

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2018 Installation / Site Visual / Photography

Bleu

BLEU is Blue, BLEU is also a measure used in machine translation between languages. Blue is sex and seedy, blue is sad and depressed. Using digital false-color infrared photography, Stephen…

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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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2017 Installation / Site Visual / Photography

TO Canada with love

Canada’s sesquicentennial (150th) has the typical excess of Nationalistic fervor – where patriotism has become to mean to follow blindly and not criticize/poke holes against the appearance of “unity”

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2017 Film

Freudian Lip

Trolling homophobic BOYS BEWARE “social guidance” film and homophobes by drawing upon and extending Freud’s theories

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2017 Visual / Photography

Screwed

SCREWED is a hybrid visual/performance piece that manifests and explores the intersectionality of the artist's personal and professional obstacles and disappointments.

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