Exploring the mark-made-by-hand and the mark-made-by-machine to shape new relational systems.
Sougwen Chung named TIME100 Most Influential People in AI
⇢ view on TIME.COM
When we can start to see that the systems we build are actually us in another form,
in another mode of temporality, then we're heading in the direction around a multiplicity of intelligences and approaches to intelligence.
DRAWING ✕
PERFORMANCE
✕ PRACTICE
✕ INTELLIGENCE
There is meaning in the data, but it’s not the meaning we are given; it’s the meaning we make.
- Sougwen Chung, Artist and Researcher, Founder of SCILICET STUDIO
⇢ read the guest essay on nytimes.com
I’m driven by curiosity – not cutting-edge for its own sake but the realization that new technologies have broad applications and implications in culture, including how we experience and see ourselves and the world around us.
What becomes of the human hand?
Where does AI end and We begin?
What are the sensory mixes of the future?
SOUGWEN CHUNG: DRAWING OPERATIONS UNIT: GENERATIONAL TIMELINE
Generation 1
MIMICRY
Generation 2
MEMORY
Generation 3
COLLECTIVITY
Generation 4
SPECTRALITY
Generation 5
ASSEMBLY
YEAR
Vision:
Relation:
Temporality:
Location:
ROBOTIC Form:
TECHNIQUES:
2014 - 2016
Colour Tracking
Simultaneous, Mimicry
Immediate
Site Specific
4 axis Robotic Arm
Camera
Jitter,
Max MSP
2016 - 2018
Infra Red
Input / Output, Memory
Data Archives
Site Non-Specific
4 axis Robotic Arm
Camera,
Custom Software
Recurrent Neural Network
Python, Javascript, C++
2018 - Ongoing
Optical Flow
Multi-agent
Site Interpretive
New York City
Swarm Robotics
C++, Custom Robotic
Modelling, Fabrication,
Optical Flow, Custom
Global / Local
Positioning Software
2020 - Ongoing
Form Tracking
Electro-physiological. EEG
Bio Interpretive
Basel / London
6 axis Robotic Arm
Python, Custom End Effector,
Custom Software,
Biometric Headset
2022-Ongoing
Multi-Form Tracking
Electro-physiological. EEG
Multi-Positional
London / Helsinki
Multi-Robotic System
30 Year Training Data-driven Model, Bio-feeback Integration, Spatial Kinematics
ART ✕ RESEARCH
Where does AI end and We begin?
MEMORY (D.O.U.G._2) collected by the V&A
WAVE Film feat on NOWNESS
Why I Draw
with Robots - TEDTalk
