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V&A Museum Collects MEMORY (D.O.U.G._2)

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 …
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December 20, 2022
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Insight: Assembly Lines by Sougwen Chung, states of meditation through multi-robotic kinematics & biosensors

CLOT Magazine has written a feature on Assembly Lines (D.O.U.G._5), on show at EMMA Museum in Espoo, Finland. Read the article here: Insight: Assembly Lines by Sougwen Chung, states of meditation through multi-robotic kinematics …
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December 6, 2022
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Sensory mixes of the future: Sougwen 愫君 Chung’s new large-scale kinetic installation features a new multi-robotic Drawing Operations Unit

Inner Magazines featured Assembly Lines, which premiered at the exhibition In Search of the Present at EMMA - Espoo Museum of Modern Art in Finland. Read the article here. October 24, 2022
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October 24, 2022
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Virtual Ink

‘Virtual Ink’ showcases the figural fluid studies of Sougwen 愫君 Chung, part of an ongoing research practice exploring and expanding the boundaries of art and technology. For more than a decade, Chinese-Canadian artist and …
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June 29, 2022
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“The imagination is nothing unless it is made actual”

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
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January 31, 2022
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// speculative robotics — programmable matter //

..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 …
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March 11, 2021
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// speculative robotics ~~ ecologies of becoming-with //

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 …
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March 11, 2021
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// bodies in space //

// 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 …
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February 26, 2021
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// drawing installations 2011 //

..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 …
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February 19, 2021
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// 二天性 SECOND NATURE: Adaptation and Biomimicry //

. . 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 …
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February 3, 2021

Sougwen 愫君 Chung is a Chinese-Canadian artist and researcher. Chung is the founder and artistic director of ⇢ SCILICET, a studio exploring human & non-human collaboration.

A former research fellow at MIT’s Media Lab, Sougwen is considered a pioneer in the field of human-machine collaboration – exploring the mark-made-by-hand and the mark-made-by-machine as an approach to understanding the dynamics of humans and systems. 

— Sougwen 愫君 Chung is a Chinese-born, Canadian-raised artist & (re)searcher based in London / New York / Hong Kong.

— Sougwen 愫君 Chung is a Chinese-born, Canadian-raised artist & (re)searcher based in London / New York / Hong Kong.

— Sougwen 愫君 Chung is a Chinese-born, Canadian-raised artist & (re)searcher based in London / New York / Hong Kong.

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