Repression – dissonance productions

chansNon-sequitur

chansNon-sequitur is a body of work in which song becomes an administrative afterimage: a place where authority, genre, and affect continue to operate even after meaning has failed. The project…

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2026 Generative / Interactive

Atomic Memory Auditor

Atomic Memory Auditor operates at the intersection of archival reconstruction and moral repair. It is both an instrument and an argument: an evidence-based counter-memory engine built from fragments of text,…

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2025 Generative / Interactive Music

Died of Spurn

Died of Spurn is an interactive music project based on De Profundis, Oscar Wilde’s letter written while he was imprisoned in Reading Gaol. The title is an anagram of De…

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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 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 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 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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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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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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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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