Sougwen 愫君 Chung is a
Chinese-Canadian artist
and researcher.
Sougwen 愫君 Chung is a Chinese-born, Canadian-raised artist and (re)searcher based in New York.
她是麻省理工学院媒体实验室（MIT Media Lab）的前研究员，跨学科艺术家，人机协作领域的先驱。2019年，她因在艺术与科学领域的贡献获得“蒙特卡洛女性奖”的最高奖项“2019年度女性奖”。她的创作涵盖装置、雕塑、绘画和行为艺术，探索分别由人手和机器创作的痕迹图画。她用自己的画作训练人工智能，把学习到自己风格的AI转移到机械臂上，与她同台作画。所以她的作品就像是双人画作，将艺术家的风格和人工智能的风格自然地结合在一起。代表作品：《绘图操作单元》（Drawing Operations Unit）。
“我们正在创造未来的新型混合感知，这是我们从未经历过的。”
Sougwen 愫君 Chung is a Chinese-Canadian artist and researcher, and is the founder and artistic director of Scilicet, a London-based studio exploring human & non-human collaboration. Chung is a former research fellow at MIT’s Media Lab and 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.
Chung has exhibited internationally at the Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; Art Basel, Miami; National Art Center, Tokyo; NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC], Tokyo, Japan; ArtScience Museum, Singapore; MIT Media Lab, Cambridge; The Drawing Center, New York; The New Museum, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Geneva; Mana Contemporary, New York, Tribeca Film Festival, New York; The Hospital Club, London; Mutek Festival, Montreal & Mexico City; Sonar Festival, Barcelona.
Chung’s work has been featured in publications including Art F City, Artnet, Artplugged, Artsy, Business Insider, Dazed and Confused, Engadget, EXIT Magazine, Fast Company, Forbes, Irish Times, MASHABLE, Noema Magazine, Seattle Times, Superrare, The Creators Project, The Jakarta Post, The New Yorker, USA Today, Washington Post, and Wired.
A former TED Speaker, Chung has spoken at international conferences including SIGGRAPH Conference, Vancouver; Global Art Forum, Singapore; World Science Festival, New York; Cannes Lions, Cannes; WSJ's Future of Everything Conference, New York; Tribeca Film Festival Interactive, New York; House of Beautiful Business, Lisbon; OFFF, Barcelona; FITC, Tokyo; Internet Dargana, Stockholm; SXSW, Austin; The Art Directors Club, New York.
Chung has been selected for excellence in the Arts & Sciences as Woman of the Year in Monaco, received the Lumen Prize for Art in Technology, was an inaugural E.A.T. Artist in Residence in partnership with New Museum and Bell Labs, was awarded a commission for project Omnia per Omnia, was the Japan Media Arts recipient of the Excellence Award for Drawing Operations, and was selected as one of the Top 20 New Visual Artists by Print Magazine.
Additionally, Sougwen Chung has been awarded Artist in Residence positions at Google, Studio Wayne McGregor, Laurenz Haus Basel, Eyebeam, Japan Media Arts, and Pier 9 Autodesk.
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RECENT PRESS & UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
TIME100 Most Influential people in AI Time Magazine
Us in Another Form Le Random Editorial
Relational Gestures Solo Show at HOFA Gallery for Frieze, London
SPECTRALITY (with D.O.U.G._4) Studies at GEN/GEN, Gazelli Art House, London
MEMORY (with D.O.U.G._2) at Extensions of Self, Francisco Carolinum, Linz
LIGATURES at Synesthetic Immersion, Arts Space at Bořislavka, Prague
Works acquired by the V&A Museum, EMMA Museum, and 0xCollection
Features in Hyundai ArtLab, DesignBoom, Washington Post, Art In America
Watch Sougwen's talk at TED: Why I Draw With Robots
Lumen Prize For Art & Technology Award Winner
Falling Walls Art & Science Breakthrough of the Year for Art and Research
Awards & Residencies
2022
Studio Wayne Mcgregor
London, UK
2021
Laurenz Haus Residency / Invitation of Maja Oeri / Schaulager Foundation
Basel, CH
2019
Lumen Art & Technology Prize
London, UK
2019
Monaco's Woman of the Year for Achivements in Art & Science
Monte-Carlo, Monaco
2016
Excellence Award (Entertainment Division) Japan Media Arts Festival
Tokyo, JP
2015
MIT Media Lab Visiting Artist
Cambridge, US
Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions
2022
Assembly Lines
In Search of the Present
EMMA Museum
Espoo, Finland
2022
Special Project Room
The Imitaton Game
Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver, Canada
2022
Virtual Ink (SOLO SHOW)
Virtual Ink
Gillian Jason Gallery
London, UK
2022
Ecologies of Becoming-With
What will Life Become?
Berggruen Institute
Los Angeles, US
2021
Exquisite Corpus
Art & Humanity
Stavros Niarchos Foundation
Athens, Greece
2021
Ecologies of Becoming-With
Out of Nature
Studio Wayne Mcgregor
London, UK
2021
Entangled Origins (Solo Show)
Frieze
Gillian Jason Gallery
London, UK
2021
Entangled Origins (Solo Show)
Art Basel
Schaulager Foundation
Basel, CH
2021
Flora Rearing Agricultural Network
Thin as Thorns, in These Thoughts in Us
Honor Fraser Gallery
Los Angeles, US
2020
Flora Rearing Agricultural Network
In the Name of Flower
Pearl Art Museum
Shanghai, CN
2020
Flora Rearing Agricultural Network
Götzendämmerung
Haus der Kunst
Munich, DE
2020
Mutations of Presence
Re: Memory
Sorlandets Kunstmuseum
Kristiansand, NO
2020
( distance ) in place
Language of Intimacy
Abron Arts Center / Boston Center for the Arts
Boston, US
2019
Drawing Operations Duet (Performance)
Artistic
Intelligence
Kunstverein Hannover
Hannover, DE
2019
Drawing Operations Duet (Performance)
[SP a T i AL]
GOOGLE I/O
Mountain View, USA
2018
Drawing Operations Duet (Performance)
Global Art Forum:
I am not a Robot
ArtScience Museum
Singapore
2018
Omnia per Omnia (Drawing Operations Unit: Generation 3)
Only Human
Mana Contemporary
New Jersey, USA
2017
Memory (Drawing Operations Unit: Generation 2)
Open Space
NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]
Tokyo, JP
2017
Mytheme (Étude Op. 4)
Naturalismo Digital
Centro de Cultura Digital
Mexico City, MX
2016
Chiaroscuro
Nonspaces
Yokyerler Exhibition
Istanbul, Turkey
2016
MIMICRY ( Drawing Operations Unit: Generation 1 )
E.A.T. Launch
New Museum
New York, USA
2016
MIMICRY ( Drawing Operations Unit: Generation 1 )
Ubiquitous Humanity
The Annex
Hong Kong
2016
Imaginary Blueprints
Drawing Sound III:
Composing the City
Drawing Center
New York, USA
2016
Coalesce
RE:SOUND
Simons Center Gallery
Stonybrook, USA
2016
MIMICRY ( Drawing Operations Unit: Generation 1 )
Japan Media Arts Festival Showcase
National Art Center
Tokyo, Japan
2015
MIMICRY ( Drawing Operations Unit: Generation 1 )
NEW INC Showcase
Redbull Studios
New York, USA
2014
Praesentia
NEW INC Showcase
New Museum
New York, USA
2014
Ecdysis
Drop Everything
Drop Everything
Galway, Ireland
2014
Ecdysis
Ecdysis
Black Box Theatre
Denver, USA
2014
Ecdysis
Ecdysis
319 Scholes Gallery
Shanghai, CN
2013
Chiaroscuro
Mapping Festival
Museum of Contemporary Art
Geneva, CH
2013
Exuviae
Hacking Arts
MIT Media Lab
Cambridge, USA
2012
Chiaroscuro
Of Art & Artifice
Art Directors Club
New York, NY
Selected Speaking & Teaching
2020
Seeing Double (Performance Lecture)
SIGGRAPH
Vancouver, CAN
2021
Speaker
World Artificial Intelligence Conference
Shanghai, CN
2019
The Art and Language of Creativity
Neurips
Vancouver, CA
2019
Why I Draw with Robots
TED
Mumbai, IN
2019
AI and its Others: In Conversation with Maya Indira Ganesh
AI and its Others
Berlin, DE
2019
Making Art with AI
Google I/O
Mountain View, US
2019
The Art and Language of Creativity
Neurips
Vancouver, CA
2019
Future of Everything
Wallstreet Journal
New York, USA
2018
Man and the Machine
Cannes Festival of Creativity
Cannes, FR
2018
Hard to Read
Bridget Donahue Gallery
New York, USA
2017
Speaker
World Science Festival
Vancouver, CA
2016
Translation, Media, & Music (Talk with Luisa Pereria)
Loop Festival
Berlin, DE
2016
RESOUND
Simons Center for Physics
Stonybrook, NY
2016
Speaker
Tribeca Film Festival Institute Interactive
New York, NY
2016
Speaker
Gray Area Festival
San Francisco, USA
2015
Speaker
FITC Tokyo
Vancouver, CA
2015
Speaker
Internet Dargana
Stockholm, SE
2014
Speaker
Alphaville
London, England
2013
Speaker
OFFF
Barcelona, SP
Faculty & Workshops
2014/20
ITP Master Class: Guest Lecturer
ITP Master Class
New York, NY
2017
The New Normal: Visiting Faculty
Strelka Institute
Moscow, Russia
2015/7
Social Computing: Visiting Researcher
MIT Media Lab
Cambridge, US
2017
School of Poetic Computation: Visiting Lecturer
SFPC
New York, US
Education
2020
Computational Media Arts: Docotoral Candidate
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hong Kong / China
2015
Researcher
MIT Media Lab
Cambridge, US
2010
Masters of Interactive Art
Hyper Island
Stockholm, SE
2010
Bachelors of Fine Arts
Indiana University
Bloomington, US
