Written by: sougwenchung
When a silkworm spins a cocoon it is a form of drawing; labour, memory, movement, time. The shared signal structure is what threads the silkworms to the robotic system. The biosignal is registered through …
Drawing chimes with the needs of the moment, allowing us to dream and endless dream. dexter_todrawistobehumanDownload
Neither individual or collective identities are fixed, you can remain yourself while at the same time being interested in ‘the exterior’ and forming a relationship with ‘the other ‘ Glissants archipelago via HUO Hans …
Featured in alternative futures: art as a toolkit for survival, a new book from Intellect Books edited by Bernd Herzogenrath. In conversation with Martin Švantner — artists and writers paired in dialogue around imagination, …
Featured in ArtReview — Museum as Networked Modality by Charlotte Kent. On museums, networked systems, and the shifting conditions of encounter between art, technology, and institutional form. Read the article hereMore about the author …
biosignal & gestural data suspended in a drop of water sketch here
pneuma and psyche; exocerebrum experiments — human machine gesture (barta via wilcox via qusṭā ibn lūqā)
calligraphy and custom silver silk fibroin composite ink;exocerebrum experiments — human machine gesturedetail from RECURSION Series; process film
silk fibroin crystallization, cocoon, conductive thread, photopolymer resin, chromatic ink, glass, light
Spatial data, custom robotics, led meshSPATIALITY, D.O.U.G._6Installation viewEcologies of Becoming exhibition at KUNSTVEREIN HEILBRONN, Germany, 2025 “I’m drawn to the de- and re-materialisation of aura through meditation and biomateriality. The investigation of aura, authorship, …
CHRONOGLYPH I (studio proof)interweaving simulation and tactile expressions custom 3d RNN Model, sculptural drawing data, paint, photopolymer resin2025
Some days I’m a pendulum that exists on a planet that periodically loses gravity.
To further this idea, working with natural organisms introduces growth and decay into the artistic process. How do these biological timelines influence the temporal aspect of your art, and how do you negotiate control …
"Every act of communication is a miracle of translation. At this moment, in this place, the shifting action potentials in my neurons cascade into certain arrangements, patterns, thoughts; they flow down my spine, branch …
"Indeed, one of the major failures of the twentieth century was the inability to articulate the almost standardized ecological thinking endowed with a strong European humanism; technology was received as a provocation to either …
on view last month at DER TANK: The Centre for Art Gender and Nature as part of @HEK_Basel's #MESHFESTIVAL
Been feeling kinda quiet since I got back from the northernmost north; amongst capturing the experience through moving image, sound, it was necessary to experience the Arctic Svalbard without editorialising, without narrative. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘳𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤 …
Preparing for an expedition to the Arctic Circle in June; thinking about movement, ice, climate, and time. Views over Iceland omw to Toronto for #robarch2024
Silk fibroin is an insoluble protein produced by Bombyx mori silkworm. It is the major component of the silkworm cocoon. Due to its unique structural properties, low immunogenicity and stability at low pH, Silk …
[Verse 1]We three, we're all aloneLiving in a memoryMy echo, my shadow, and me [Verse 2]We three, we're not a crowdWe're not even companyMy echo, my shadow, and me [Bridge]What good is the moonlightThe …
I've been drawing sculptures in air inspired by animalia and myth; the tail of a serpent as ouroboros, eternal return, eclipsing time.
Multidisciplinary artist Sougwen Chung delves into her unique contributions to the exhibition GEN/GEN: Generative Generations, the evolving discourse on human-machine interconnections and more with Peter Bauman (Monk Antony). link
With his art-making software dating back to the 1960s, the programmer and artist paved the way for today’s confluence of art and technology Is artificial intelligence a tool to be used by humans to …
What role, if any, should artificial intelligence play in the world of art and content creation? Prestige asks AI-art experts Alex Israel and Sougwen Chung. As soon as artificial intelligence become easily accessible through the likes of …
to travel to the next solar eclipse in Spain, August 12, 2026, after convos w David Pfau Below is a crescent-laden photo from the last one at Bell Labs Laureate garden with Lindsay Howard …
Two leaders in the field of machine learning assess its progressive potential for art and beyond For over a decade, Mick Grierson has been leading research into creative applications of AI. As a co-founder …
A pioneer in the realm of human-machine collaboration, Chinese-Canadian artist and researcher Sougwen Chung has long explored the mark-made-by-hand and the mark-made-by-machine to delve into the dynamics between humans, AI systems, and robotics.
detritus & mechanism, today; morning light and tracing sculptural encasings for cocoons, trying to give my silkworms a good life while they're here, before death and/or metamorphosis
Learning how to form habitats; Studies in observation, metamorphosis and care #ROS
body as mechanism / interoperability as necessity / self as system -- imperfect, choral, encoded
i've been thinking about how the evolution of the bombyx mori and the development of the robotic form have both been shaped by the human imagination, albeit in different ways. Perhaps its time to …
captured my own movements as spatial data to create these GENESIS sculptural forms — each piece is an array of positions, gestures, traces of the body in physical space
💙 Grateful to the whole team at @TIME for the #TIME100 Impact Award, recognizing individuals who have gone above and beyond to move their industries—and the world—forward in the AI space. I am honored to be one of …
fieldnotes relational modes, real and imagined i. Exquisite Corpus performanceii. A language of linesiii. Sprouting -- Hexagram 3 -- First I CHING reading of 2024iv. diagramv. Studiomatevi. except from the Twofold Commitment by Trinh …
Chung, Sougwen. “Where Does A.I. End and We Begin?” The New York Times, The New York Times, 7 Dec. 2023, www.nytimes.com/2023/12/07/special-series/artificial-intelligence-art.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EE0.eiMW.j35PQKm8GJih&smid=url-share. Where does A.I. end and we begin? I’ve been thinking about this question …
Singapore International Festival of Arts (Sifa)Realm Of SilkSougwen ChungVictoria TheatreSaturday (May 20) With artificial intelligence (AI) sending waves of upheavals in the art world, it is apt that this year’s Sifa – positioning itself …
In an in-depth article and interview with the V&A Museum's digital art curator Pita Arreola, the topic of collecting contemporary digital art is discussed, with the recent acquisition of Sougwen Chung's work MEMORY, serving …
‘In Search of the Present’ at Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland was selected as one of the 10 best art exhibitions to see in 2023, by Wallpaper* arts editor Harriet Lloyd-Smith. "What is …
From the AI for Good Website Increasingly, multidisciplinary artists and creative technologists are guiding the bleeding edge of innovation, and establishing crucial new narratives for wider society. In this episode, Sougwen Chung will offer …
The Victoria & Albert Museum has acquired my project MEMORY, created with Drawing Operations Unit: Generation 2 (D.O.U.G._2). MEMORY consists of an RNN (Recurrent Neural Network) model contained within a newly designed and developed …
physical manifestation of my speculative robotics series (ongoing) Still entranced by the tactility of rapid prototyping, visual properties of clear resin. Maybe glass next? Title: #kathyackerImage: Resin print of sculpture created in #VR
..Inspired by xenobots-- constructed of frog cells, computational organisms. Machines made of silicon with proto-cognitive capabilities. How might these nano-organisms "think" differently -- think alongside our own wetware, differently? And what role does anthropomorphism …
Inspired by the materiality of the Mantis shrimp. A research process of energy conservation through it's internal geometric structure. (elastic to kinetic energy conversion through bio-mimicy)..modelled in VR, converting to AR prototype for a …
// my last performance of Exquisite Corpus with D.O.U.G._4 // I sometimes wonder what the next performance will be like, after a year of lockdown. Exquisite Corpus was the first time I brought in …
..People sometimes ask me how drawing with D.O.U.G. has changed my process. Here's and image of me preparing some installation drawings (#chiaro_oscuro) from a decade ago. Breaking out from software into gesture, back to …
. . Hydrophyte leaf patterns, water adaptations suspended in air. The fractal ribs create pockets that allow the leaves to float above the surface of the water. The Victoria amazonica was also Inspiration for …
..Building interactions implies sovereignty, detachments disguised as world-building-- God-mode. vs Building (inter)Relation. Implies inclusion, " I" is situated within the relation. Dynamics of relations -- equitable relationships, requires trust and necessitates attachment, recognition, collaboration. …
.. "This flood of convergences, publishing itself in the guise of the commonplace. No longer is the latter an accepted generality, suitable and dull no longer is it deceptively obvious, exploiting common sense-it is, …
... ¹ Still from a private performance in a Mexican jungle² grasping SECOND NATURE, AR experiments in Lockdown³ drawing a memory⁴ excerpt from Anna Anlin Cheng's Ornamentalism.." What happens to our notions of the …
“Science transforms its languages; Poetry invents its tongues.” Thank you to Falling Walls for the award of winner in the category of Science in the Arts for my contributions to the field of Art …
feat. Drawing Operations (robotic) Unit, Generation 4Paintings as sound compositions Referencing John Cage's Fontina Mix, 1958, a provocation for "musical scores of indeterminacy", these experiments were created in collaboration with D.O.U.G._4, with contact mics …
Intertwining my meditation and art practice. They're both simple interventions that shape my days -- alternating between varying states of flow, alternatives to the addiction to control, reliance on certainty
I used to draw differently.My approach to drawing and machine learning, data, and robotics started as a way to evolve my drawing ability by designing artificial intelligence systems, to explore collaboration with a robotic …
When developing virtual performances, I started by translating all the physical components of my on-site set-up digitally, modelling the frame, the stage, the environment, until I realized none of those physical constraints mattered. Even …
Learning shelter, communal thinking, escapist magical realism // mycelial machinations -- wild / life // witness & unfurl -- terrestrial microbial worlds -- ( shelter-in-place ) // Music by @a_q_u_a_r_i_a_n // mycelium electron microscopy // …
witness & unfurl -- terrestrial microbial worlds -- ( shelter-in-place ) // // petal pirouette --wild / life // / orchid formations embedded in air / . #artstudio #wildlife #drawing #ecologiesofbecomingwith #mixedreality #virtualreality #augmentedreality …
MAY - OCTOBER Mutations of Presence, Re: Memory, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Norway, 2020 AUGUST - DECEMBER Flora Rearing Agricultural Network, In the Name of Flower, Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai, 2020 SEPTEMBER Flora Rearing Agricultural Network, …
Corpus I from the series ( distance ) in place, 2020, graphite on paper | collaboration with D.O.U.G._5. All images courtesy of the artist. As external realities we once knew have dissolved and fragmented over the …
. . During quarantine, I've been gazing at the city through its public cameras, searching for absence of crowds. It’s an activity that offers some small assurance that people outside of my periphery might …
Missing this peaceful moment from my last performance. I like that the image captures the inherent stillness of the process of drawing. Despite uncertainty, the lines are grounding..I'm slowly working on a tele-present version …
I've been recording my EEG data while meditating a few times a day in isolation. When I do, I see visions of microbial cells, vertiginous circuits, plants / machines co-naturality. ..Preparation for an upcoming …
( Noticing attunes us to worlds otherwise ). . Conservation status: vulnerableReproduction: sexual and asexualCarnivorous plantLifespan: 20 years .
.Thinking about starting a drawing live stream from my studio in Brooklyn, a space to draw together as I iterate and experiment with new performance concepts around telepresence and sound meditation... How can we …
🌹 as simulation, mutualism, mutation, process, and memory . ~ Process artefact from upcoming project exploring biometrics and digitized organic material .~ Slow motion capture of a bee pollination in Lahore, Pakistan.~ Drawing study …
Interview with Ken Tan featured on The Creative Independent Artist Sougwen Chung discusses the joys and complications of working with robotics, the evolving definition of what it means to be an interdisciplinary artist, and …
Thank you to Art In America magazine and Jason Bailey for featuring my drawing on their January issue, focusing on Generative Art. This represents a milestone in the industry of Art and Technology, and …
What happens when humans and robots make art together? In this awe-inspiring talk, artist Sougwen Chung shows how she "taught" her artistic style to a machine -- and shares the results of their collaboration …
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 …
By Vanessa Chang LATE LAST YEAR, artificial intelligence made a loud splash in the art world. A trio of French students, calling themselves Obvious, put a smeared, unfinished portrait up for auction at Christie’s. Titled Portrait …
〰️ 🌊 daydreaming in blue 🌊〰️ My (re)search and art practice featured in Issues in Science in Technology: Future of Work Special Edition. In Omnia per Omnia, I paint with a multi-robotic system connected …
Thank you to @artnet for including me and Doug in their article on 9 Pioneering Artists working with AI. I spoke a bit with @Naomikrea about the potential I see in working with this new …
Originally published in Ravelin MagazineInterview by Jillian Billard Hi Sougwen! Hi, Jillian ~ I always like to start with talking about an artist’s background. Can you talk a bit about your early life and …
We made a film for #OmniaPerOmnia and it was a wild ride. (This is the teaser ~) . . Thank you to @mynameiscutter for sharing the vision, lending your talents to the project, and assembling the star team …
Sougwen Chung, Omnia Per Omnia Performance. Photo by Irina Abraham. "In Omnia Per Omnia Sougwen Chung explores collaborating with robots as opposed to using them as a tool. As I enter the room, the artist and …
This post was originally published by NEW INC on April 20, 2018 and is based on an interview between Lindsay Howard and Sougwen Chung. Recently NEW INC, the New Museum’s cultural incubator, and Nokia Bell Labs presented their …
Vermilion Sands: Interview with Sougwen Chung VORTEX PROPS: What is the role of images in your research? Sougwen Chung: The role of images in my research is linked to ways in which interface design …
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𝘖𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘳𝘵
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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