Written by: sougwenchung
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// Relation vs Interaction //

..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. …
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January 28, 2021
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// SECOND NATURE: Relation / Repetition //

.. "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, …
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January 18, 2021
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grasping the organic / daydreaming new natures

... 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 …
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January 14, 2021
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Winner in “Science in the Arts”

“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 …
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January 5, 2021
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Indeterminacy Scores

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 …
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January 4, 2021
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Biometric Flora

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
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January 3, 2021
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// drawing in lockdown //

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 …
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December 28, 2020

On Virtual Performances

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 …
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December 21, 2020
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// SECOND NATURE //

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 // …
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December 21, 2020
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Orchid Formations

witness & unfurl -- terrestrial microbial worlds -- ( shelter-in-place ) // // petal pirouette --wild / life // / orchid formations embedded in air / . #artstudio #wildlife #drawing #ecologiesofbecomingwith #mixedreality #virtualreality #augmentedreality …
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December 16, 2020

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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