“Drawing Operations” awarded the Lumen’s Art and Technology Prize

2019
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Deeply grateful to @Lumen_prize, for awarding the Art and Technology Prize to Drawing Operations, a project I started in 2015 exploring human and machine collaboration. Thank you Carla Rapoport, and Jack Addis for your support and welcoming me into the Lumens family.
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In these deeply uncertain times, I find myself thinking of #DonnaHaraway’s writing in Staying With The Trouble 🖤: “It matters what worlds world worlds. We become together or not at all." Collaboration, for me, is a way to steer away from "a technophobic spiral, by conceiving of humans & machines as interacting parts of complex adaptive systems." .
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Thank you to the early support of Drawing Operations Unit: Generation 1 by @juliaxgulia Karen Wong and Lisa Phillips through @NewMuseum’s incubator project @NewInc. And the continued development of Generation 2: Memory by CG-Arts NTT InterCommunication Center @japan_media_arts_festival and @jmaf_residency@a.wakimoto@takahikoazami. Was a pleasure to have iterations researched at Pier Nine @sherryingw and @salvagione.
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Currently developing forthcoming generations, focused on Collective Collaboration with the support of @googleartsculture@dh7net
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Thankful for the contributions of friends and collaborators @hardmaru@YotamMann, @MaryFranck, @_frnsys & musical collaborator @aquarianyes.
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So much more to come. 🌹

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drawing alongside robotic systems since 2015
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embodied collaboration; metamorphic ecologies.
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© 2025 Sougwen Chung / SCILICET.
embodied collaboration; metamorphic ecologies. For press and collaborations: ⇢office@scilicet.xyz

© 2025 Sougwen Chung / SCILICET.  
embodied collaboration; metamorphic ecologies.
For press and collaborations: ⇢office@scilicet.xyz

© 2025 Sougwen Chung / SCILICET.  
embodied collaboration;
metamorphic ecologies.

For press and collaborations: ⇢office@scilicet.xyz

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