Collections – Sougwen Chung (愫君)

COLLECTIONS - PHYSICAL

Sougwen Chung is an internationally renowned artist and researcher exploring the boundaries of collaboration between human and machine.

Chung's work investigates the interactions between mark-made-by-hand and the mark- made-by-machine as an approach to understanding the dynamics of humans and systems.

A former research fellow at MIT, Chung is a pioneer of human and machine collaboration. There, she programmed and built robots named D.O.U.G. (Drawing Operations Unit Generation_X).

These machines mimic the artist’s hand-drawn gestures and synchronously draw along with her. The custom robots make marks in a feedback loop with the artist, generating sketches based on neural nets trained on Sougwen’s drawings gestures and biometrics.

Chung's work treats ‘AI’ as a space of, and for, doubt and uncertainty rather than narrowly defined ends, creating works that address separation, merging, and how we inhabit the relations between human, machine and non-human others.

SOUGWEN CHUNG, Mutations No. 8, 2021 Acrylic on canvas, created with D.O.U.G._ 97 x 89 cm

SOUGWEN CHUNG Mutations No. 7, 2021 Acrylic on canvas, created with D.O.U.G._ 97 x 89 cm

SOUGWEN CHUNG, Mutations No. 5, 2021 Acrylic on canvas, created with D.O.U.G._ 97 x 89 cm

SOUGWEN CHUNG Mutations No. 4, 2021 Acrylic on canvas, created with D.O.U.G._ 97 x 89 cm

SOUGWEN CHUNG, Mutations No. 3, 2021 Acrylic on canvas, created with D.O.U.G._4 96 x 87 cm

SOUGWEN CHUNG, Mutations No. 1, 2021 Acrylic on canvas, created with D.O.U.G._4

SOUGWEN CHUNG, Mutations No. 6, 2021 Acrylic on canvas, created with D.O.U.G._ 97 x 89 cm

SOUGWEN CHUNG, Hylomorphism II - Object 1, 2021 VR Painting, Print on Butler Finish Dibond 149 x 200 cm

SOUGWEN CHUNG Hylomorphism II - Object 3 VR Painting, Print on Butler Finish Dibond 149 x 200 cm

SOUGWEN CHUNG, Untitled, 2023 Acrylic on canvas, created with D.O.U.G._5 150 x 136 cm

SOUGWEN CHUNG, Untitled, 2023 Acrylic on canvas, created with D.O.U.G._5 127 x 145 cm

SOUGWEN CHUNG, Artefact 17 , 2023 Acrylic on canvas, created with D.O.U.G._4 116 x 112 cm

Artefact 14, Acrylic on canvas, created with D.O.U.G._4, 97.5 x 99 cm

SOUGWEN CHUNG Study 24 , 2023 Acrylic on canvas, created with D.O.U.G._4 51 x 66 cm

SOUGWEN CHUNG Artefact 15 , 2023 Acrylic on canvas, created with D.O.U.G._4 85.5 x 102 cm