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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, the artist programmed and built robots named D.O.U.G. (Drawing Operations Unit Generation_X).

These machines mimic the artist’s hand-drawn, synchronously drawing in unison. 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, Study 34, 2024 Acrylic on canvas, created with D.O.U.G._4 61 x 67 cm

SOUGWEN CHUNG, Study 35, 2024 Acrylic on canvas, created with D.O.U.G._4 61 x 67 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

SOUGWEN CHUNG, 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

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 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.

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

— 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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