Stephen Trothen - Projects
FEATURED PROJECTS
RECENT AND ONGOING PROJECTS
PINK OBJECTS
Full-length concept album as Treephones. 10 songs all named after and about objects.
May, 2021
HOWL/OWL/FOLLOW
Sound installation of an amplifed plush owl and custom program using Owl calls and their audio envelopes to control a filter on a recording of Ginsberg's Howl.
Arty Party, June, 2019
A CHORDING TO CHANCE
A chorder keyboard used to translate Stéphane Mallarmé's poem "Un Coup De Dés" into a compressed font designed for optimal screen reading.
Codes of Conduct, April, 2018
CABINET OF CURIOUS CONTROLLERS
Collaborative project to redesign and assemble non-traditional video game controllers.
Ongoing, 2017
ALBUM
Interactive sound installation that uses Instagram scrolling to control audio output.
Technically Art Exhibition. April, 2017
CAR PARK
Pop-up public park sound installation.
Night\Shift Festival, Nov 6, 2016
TILT DIVISIONS
Gesturally-controlled generative music system/performance.
Open Sesame, June 25, 2016
EVERY DAY I AM A TRAIN
Multi-screen video Installation.
CAFKA.16, June, 2016
EVERYBODY'S EVERYBODY'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Retro-fitted radio community sound installation.
Coded Bodies Exhibition. March, 2016
English + Innovation @ the Tannery. June, 2016.
Modernist Studies Association Conference. October, 2019.
YOU/I
Multimedia performance. Photo/foundsound live-sampling datascape.
Night\Shift Festival. October, 2015.
BEAT THE SYSTEM
Interactive installation. PHP/manual mail sorting activity.
Night\Shift Festival. October, 2015.
THE LIBRARY OF BETA-MEMEX MINDFULNESS
Interactive installation. Typewriter controlled by EEG/user attention levels.
Critical Media Lab. April, 2015.
MUTE SWAN/ TRUMPETER SWAN
Graphic novel and full-length concept album. Paperback and vinyl.
October, 2014.
TUNNEL DIVISIONS
Sound installation. Motion sensors/human traffic to organize a piece of generative music.
University of Waterloo. March, 2014.
Université Paris 8. May, 2014
Interactive Surfaces and Screens Conference. Niagara Falls. November, 2016.
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LIFETWEET
Twitter/biodata controlled assistive living and lifelogging device.
Murray Alzheimer Research and Education Program. December, 2013.
RECENT COLLABORATIONS
DREADMILL
w/ Dr. Marcel O'Gorman. Archival rebuild of treadmill controlled video using Arduino/Processing.
Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery. October, 2015.
TWEETING TOWARDS DEATH
w/ Sophia Pelka. Installation and Video Stream of Fern Plant live-tweeting its own death under a heat lamp. Arduino/Heat Sensor.
Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery. December, 2015.