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BODY MACHINE

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
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April 19, 2024
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relational modes; real and imagined

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 …
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January 17, 2024
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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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// 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

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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