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Sougwen Chung (鍾愫君) is a Canadian-born, Chinese-raised artist residing in London who is considered a pioneer in the field of human-machine collaboration.[1][2][3] Chung's artistic practices are based on performance, drawing, still image, sculpture, and installation.[4] Through these media, the work investigates mark-made-by-machine and mark-made-by-hand for understanding the encounter of computers and humans.[5] Early lifeChung grew up in Toronto, Canada, and Hong Kong. Their father, an opera singer, made sure that his children had experience with musical instruments at a very young age, and Chung grew up playing violin and piano. Sougwen Chung moved to the United States as a teenager and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Indiana University Bloomington before obtaining a Masters Diploma in Interactive Art from Hyper Island in Sweden.[6] CareerFollowing their first exhibitions taking place in 2010-2014,[7] Chung began experimenting with drawing in collaboration with machines while a researcher at MIT Media Lab in 2015. This involved collecting two decades of personal drawings to train a recurrent neural network, later titled Drawing Operations Unit: Generation_1 (D.O.U.G._1).[3][8] The robotic arm's behaviour is generated from neural nets trained on the artist's drawing gestures.[9] In a sense, the robotic arm has learned from the visual style of the artist's previous drawings and outputs a machine interpretation during the human/robot drawing duet.[10] In 2016, the artist was awarded the Excellence Award at the Japan Media Arts Festival for this work.[11][12] Since then, the Drawing Operations series has continued to explore the interplay between human and machine mark-making, examining categories such as “human”, “machine”, “biological", "artificial,” and “intelligence” as evolving rather than fixed concepts.[3][8] Chung, founder of SCILICET,[13] is also an inaugural member of NEW INC, the first museum-led incubator for technology and art, in collaboration with The New Museum.[6] According to the World Science Festival 2018, they are an Artist-In-Residence at Bell Labs exploring new forms of drawing in virtual reality, with biometrics, machine learning, and robotics.[14] In 2019 Chung presented a TED Talk in Mumbai titled "Why I draw with robots".[15] In 2022, Chung's work MEMORY (Drawing Operations Unit: Generation_2) was acquired by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The acquisition of MEMORY comprises a fine art print, a film documenting the artist's process, and a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) model contained within a 3D printed sculpture.[16] In 2023, Sougwen Chung was named to the TIME100 AI list for their pioneering work combining painting and robotics[17][18] and subsequently received a TIME100 Impact Award for their influence on the artificial intelligence field.[19][20] In January 2025, Sougwen Chung participated in a conversation with curator Hans Ulrich Obrist at the World Economic Forum in Davos,[21] in a session titled “What Happens When Humans and Robots Create Art Together?”, where they discussed human–machine collaboration in art and the role of AI in creative practice.[22] Chung's work has been shown at galleries and museums across the world, including Victoria and Albert Museum in London, England,[23] EMMA in Espoo, Finland,[24] Vancouver Art Gallery in Canada,[25] MAMCO in Geneva[26], der TANK[27] and Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland,[28] ArtScience Museum in Singapore,[29] Pearl Art Museum[30] and Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum in China,[31] TOM REICHSTEIN contemporary in Hamburg[32] and Kunstverein Heilbronn, Germany,[33] Bechtler Museum of Modern Art in Charlotte[34], Boston Art Center,[35] and Grunwald Gallery of Art in Bloomington, United States,[36] Francisco Carolinum Linz in Austria,[37] Arts Space in Prague, Czech Republic,[38] and Istanbul's Akbank Sanat,[39] among others. Chung has spoken globally at conferences including Tribeca Film Festival, New York;[40] The Hospital Club, London; MUTEK Festival, Montreal & Mexico City; Sónar +D, Barcelona, The Art Directors Club, New York; Internet Dargana, Stockholm;[41] SXSW, Austin;[42] FITC Amsterdam & Tokyo;[5] OFFF, Barcelona; Gray Area Festival, San Francisco,[43] and SIGGRAPH, Vancouver. Sougwen Chung's work has also been featured in multiple international press outlets including Art Basel,[44] Artnet, Artsy, Business Insider,[45] Dazed,[46] Designboom,[47] EXIT Magazine, Engadget, Fast Company, Forbes,[48] MASHABLE,[49] Noema Magazine,[50] Sursuma Magazine,[51] The Atlantic,[52][53] The New York Times,[54] TIME Magazine,[55] USA Today,[6] Wired,[56] and Yishu.[57] D.O.U.G._Chung's growing body of work is created in collaboration with a bespoke, multi-generational system: the Drawing Operations Unit Generation_1–6. Each generation investigates a different aspect of human–machine interaction and symbiosis:[33]
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