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Confound the Time: Reception in Medieval & Early Modern Studies · academic conference presentation & paper

A JSON-based compositional language and event-sequencing environment. Moves past the note-and-duration model of sheet music and MIDI: flexible temporal regimes and user-definable axes for frequency, symbolic pitch, percussion lanes, lighting cues, text instructions, and interactive events in one structure. From Hiligaynon tabo (to meet) and Japanese ta (field).

An interactive web timeline and timekeeper presenting a Filipino adaptation of the Japanese 72 microseasons (七十二候).

An aesthetic philosophy and a tech suite. Shifts digital aesthetics away from glitch art's rigid, pixelated, grid-bound disruptions toward organic, fluid, biologically inflected distortions — drawn from fluid flow, growth, diffusion, viscosity, and bodily transformation. Glitches that ooze, breathe, spread, stain, and mutate.

Quezon City Biennial · with Krus na Ligas residents, the LGU & UP Institute of Biology

A research-art and poetry installation that reimagines the street map of Krus na Ligas as a living plant assemblage. Roads recreated from color-inverted images of local flora, printed on acetate and suspended over a window — cyanotype-like glyphs, lightboxes, talismans, x-rays of unseen city blocks.

Long, looped ambient videos made from non-explicit transitional footage in archival gay adult media from the 1980s on — isolating rooms, hallways, pools, beds. Shifts attention from action to atmosphere, anticipation, and disappearance; on queer temporality and the ephemerality of worlds that may no longer exist.

live score for a short film by Bea Mariano · live scorer, sound artist, composer, writer, vocal performer

A live score performance integrating sound art, music, and vocal performance — digital vocal pieces, field recordings, microsound, and ambient music.

A media art algorithmic poem generating an archipelago based on special Unicode characters and scripts of cultures with precolonial contact with Manila.

with Bea Mariano · live score

A collaborative short film and videopoem stitching shipwrecks, Manila skylines, construction sites, archival photographs, handwashing footage, microorganisms, and oceanic imagery. The title evokes the ship manifest, ghostly manifestation, the making-real of the future, and the Pacific reach of manifest destiny.

Philosophy & Digitality · academic paper

Feeling Formal · Nanyang Technological University · academic and literary/artistic presentation for a workshop on theories of emotion · researcher, participant, presenter

Saliksik-Musika II · University of the Philippines · academic and musical/artistic presentation for an international forum on music · researcher, participant, presenter

Mono by Phono · conceptualizer, event designer, performer, composer as Cyberpaean

A Filipino vaporwave and hauntology event series tracing Philippine history through 90s OPM, 80s ballads, Martial Law-era disco, Manila Sound, Golden Age cinema soundtracks, folk songs, vintage commercials, and archival footage.

Serial digital poem with web 1.0 aesthetics.

A web-based poetic sequence about body porosity in the 2000s Philippines, framing electricity as life-force, infrastructure, weather, media, empire, and nervous sensation. A Filipino-Japanese neuroqueer speaker whose body becomes a conductive membrane for television, dial-up, typhoons, ghosts, floods, voltage, and history.

Atipan+ General Workshop 2025 · intern, artist-researcher, developer, translator, facilitator

A participatory "Affect Atlas" — a menstrual-awareness workshop method using storytelling, word-image mapping, and performance across Panay and Guimaras. Personal output: a critical essay and digital installation on how humor, mapping, and performance make stigmatized topics discussable while producing qualitative data.

Three textual-visual drawings fusing maps, diagrams, and manipulated photographs with poetry, prose, and asemic writing.

A web-based image processing system that reconceptualizes hue as a relational, topological medium. A user-defined anchor hue transforms colors through attraction, repulsion, inversion, compression, and expansion across the color wheel, without touching saturation or luminosity. HSL or OKLCH; CPU or GPU.

An interactive collection organized around the seven metalloids, presented as a digital periodic table. Each element's properties become a generative constraint for New Weird fiction, slipstream, body horror, kinetic poetry, science writing, and prose poetry — termite symbiosis, programmable skin, undersea cables, metallic wolves, radioactive decay.

The British Academy · researcher

researcher

LLMs and the Patterns of Human Language Use · Denkwerkstatt Berlin · researcher, participant, presenter

Digital poetry, videopoetry, docupoetry, and web art on communal hauntology and seismic events.

Academic paper lyric essay co-authored with GenAI.

Interactive digital collage and visual poetry on the metamodern, constructed self.

researcher, developer · policy research

Developed the Makwela — a geographical, participatory, and photovoice-driven storytelling method with an interactive map.

The Second Congressional Commission on Education · documenter, researcher · policy research

Resident DJ, fashion designer, event coordinator, 3D mesh artist. Curated genre sets (vaporwave, exotica, electro swing, seapunk, EBM, noise) as temporary worlds — designing posters, building sets, changing skies. Plus avatar fashion impossible in physical space: dresses made from floating pearls, leaves, blobs, dandelion particles. Blender · Substance Painter

science advisor, graphic designer, composer, social media assistant

streamer, video and audio editor, music composer, social media assets · actual play TTRPG group

music composer, sound designer, sound recordist · documentary

Three-piece outfit inspired by the namesake cultivar: pants, innerwear, and outerwear. Plus a crafted iridescent cockroach ring.

music composer · short film

music composer · short film · FilAm Creative Film Festival 2023 Best Short Film

Crooked Tree Records · lead singer, music composer, producer, mixing & mastering, album artist

6-track synthpop/vaporpop album.

Re.Doubt 2 · Belfort and Bastion Publishing · contributing author · fiction

High Chair, Issue 16 · contributing author · poetry

keyboards, secondary vocals, arrangement

Filipino Freethinkers · contributing author · non-fiction, science writing

Filipino Freethinkers · music composer · introduction music

music composer & glass harp performer · concert with audiovisual sections

Music composed from non-human nature sounds.

Asian Composer's League

Instrumental electronic music based on simple waveforms, Philippine gongs, and vertical composition.

Meralco Theatre · librettist, songwriter, lead actor

A full-scale musical conceived and written at age nine, staged with Fides Cuyugan-Asensio, Bernardo Bernardo, and Monique Wilson.