τ : The Algorithmic Unraveling

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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CunningLinguist

CunningLinguist

Counter-Grammar and the Subversion of Canon CunningLinguist is a suite of software instruments that deploy artificial intelligence, vector embeddings, multi-lingual translation pipelines, and minimalist interface design to cultivate subversive thought…

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de-Note

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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SynthesAsia

SynthesAsia

Algorithmic Listening and the Disrupted Soundscape SynthesAsia approaches sound not as passive background noise, but as a dynamic arena of territorial control, rapid urbanization, and algorithmic sorting. In contemporary China,…

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InstaAether

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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Conste(rn/ll)ation

Conste(rn/ll)ation

Conste(rn/ll)ation reconsiders the so-called “Silk Road” through the older and less romantic framework of the Jade Road — the networks that moved nephrite from the rivers of Hotan and the…

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Gone Dyke Sparks

Gone Dyke Sparks

Gone Dyke Sparks transforms poetry written during the earlier Gone Dyke project (9 years ago) into a web-based musical sculpture composed of drifting embers, ash, and fleeting filaments of light.…

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Songwriter Almanac

Songwriter Almanac

Coincidentally the day Stephen completed his Songwriter Almanac GPT was the same day Trump initiated war with Iran. Originally designed as a corollary to

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山水颂 Shan Shui

山水颂 Shan Shui

山水颂 (Odes to Shan Shui) draws directly from the tradition of shan shui painting—mountain and water as more than scenery, as cosmology and moral space. In classical scrolls, the human…

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chansNon-sequitur

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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COLORED BLIND

COLORED BLIND

It began with a well-meaning, if misguided comment, from a White person that I should pursue a MFA to work towards Documenta and Biennale. "Your ideas will jump to a…

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Atomic Memory Auditor

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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