Sougwen Chung, installation view in HOFA Gallery’s booth at Art Dubai, 2024. Photo by Spark Media. Courtesy of Art Dubai.
Sougwen Chung, installation view in HOFA Gallery’s booth at Art Dubai, 2024. Photo by Spark Media. Courtesy of Art Dubai.
Chung began these ‘post-human subject studies’ in 2015, and the body of work presented in ‘Virtual Ink’ is the culmination of almost seven years of development. Building a bespoke process in custom software in Virtual Reality, the series is almost exclusively drawn in a simulated environment. The possibilities of drawing within the digital landscape extend traditional painting approaches with new spatial orientations. Every stroke of virtual ink is produced in three dimensions, rendering the work almost sculptural in its creation.
Across the exhibition space, frames captured from the ‘Virtual Ink’ digital environment are displayed around a set of special edition silk hangings, referencing the suspended gestures of the virtual marks.
The ’Virtual Ink’ series is an homage to the ritual of traditional Chinese painting techniques re-imagined in the digital. From this foundation, the practice of mark-making becomes a wellspring of inspiration in developing artistic tools of tomorrow, in the creation of sculptural line-work that communicates the uncertainty, fluidity and temporality of form.
We made a film for #OmniaPerOmnia and it was a wild ride. (This is the teaser ~) .
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Thank you to @mynameiscutter for sharing the vision, lending your talents to the project, and assembling the star team for our film. @tshung @cleggm @arianne_alizio .
Original score by @aquarianyes and Mickey Partlow @v3rysaid .
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Omnia per Omnia pays homage to the flow of cities. This first chapter begins in NYC, my home of a decade and birthplace of the Experiments in Art and Technology initiative.
The full film is screening@manacontemporary this weekend ~ .
Where does the time go? This weekend is the last weekend to see Omnia per Omnia at Mana Contemporary. Thank you to all who have supported the project for this first run. .
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What an experience to bring these 20 new robots into the world with my collaborators @andycavatorta @thepetermania@mynameiscutter @youngbukllc and the support of the team @newinc @belllabsnokia @newmuseum.
Photo by Rain Embuscado