Sougwen Chung is an internationally renowned multi-disciplinary artist, who uses hand-drawn and technologically-reproduced marks to address the closeness between person-to-person and person-to-machine communication.
Award-winning media artist exploring Human / Robot Collaboration & Virtual Reality
Artist in Residence at Google, Bell Labs & New Museum
Former Artist & Researcher at MIT Media Lab
Represented by Chartwell Group
Chung is a former research fellow at MIT’s Media Lab, and current Artist in Residence at Bell Labs and New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.
In 2016 Sougwen was an Artist in Residence at Google, exploring innovative ways to utilize virtual reality as a medium for storytelling and rapid prototyping. Concurrently, her project Drawing Operations, a Human & Robot Collaboration exploring performance and machine learning, won the Japan Media Arts Award in for Excellence in Media Arts.
Sougwen’s multidisciplinary work has exhibited internationally, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Geneva, The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, the NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC) in Tokyo, and The Drawing Center. Her work and has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Fast Company, Engadget and USA Today.
As one of the pioneering artists of her generation Sougwen’s art challenges the imagination through its minimalist, yet dramatic form. Sougwen’s art speaks of movement and change and reflects images of nature in a truly modern setting.
Speaking Topics
- The impact of Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse on creativity
- Human & Robot collaboration in science, art, and technology
- Diversity and inclusion in STEM
- Creating successful interdisciplinary environments
Speaking Topics
- The impact of AI and VR on creativity
- Human & Robot collaboration in science, art, and technology
- Diversity and inclusion in STEM
- Creating successful interdisciplinary environments
"Sougwen’s work encourages a dialogue on blurring the separation
between different forms of artistic media. Her work is modern, exciting and will influence other artists for years to come."
- Chartwell Group
Selected Speaking
2023
AI for GOOD
UNITED NATIONS
Geneva, CH
2023
Cultural Leader & Keynote
WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM
Tianjin, CN
2023
Creative Machine Symposium
OXFORD
Oxford, UK
2023
Keynote: Generative AI & IP
UNESCO
Paris, FR
2022
Seeing Double (Performance Lecture)
SIGGRAPH
Vancouver, CAN
2021
Seeing Double: Bridging Dualities w Relational Intelligence
House of Beautiful Business
Lisbon, PT
2021
Artist Talk
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburg, USA
2021
Where does 'AI' end and 'we' begin?
ACM IMX 2021
New York City, NY
2021
Robots as Companions: In Conversation with Madeline Gannon and Maria Yablonovich
University of Toronto
Toronto, CA
2020
AI and its others (In Conversation with Maya Indira Ginesh and Armen Avanessian )
Avanessian & Enemies
Berlin, DE
2020
Artist Talk at Futures Sketches Group
MIT Media Lab
Cambridge, US
2020
Artist Talk at Interactive Architecture Lab
Bartlett School of Architecture
London, UK
2020
The Art and Language of Creativity
AIGA
New York, NY
2019
WHY I DRAW WITH ROBOTS
Keynote Speaker
TED @BCG
MUMBAI
MAKING ART WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Artist in Conversation
(with Kenric Mcdowell & Onformative)
Google IO
CALIFORNIA
ROBOTIC ART
Artist Talk
Future of Everything (WallStreet Journal)
NEW YORK
ARTIST TALK
The Next Web
AMSTERDAM
2018
We are in a Robotic Moment
Global Art Forum: Singapore (Curated by Shumon Basar)
Art Science Museum
SINGAPORE
Where does (A)I end
and We begin?
Only Human Symposium
Mana Contemporary
NEW JERSEY
What AI Teaches Us About Creativity and the Universe (Panel)
Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity
Grand Palais
CANNES
On Creating Poetic Futures
Lovelace | Hard to Read
Bridget Donahue Gallery
NEW YORK
2017
Computational Creativity:
AI and the Art of Ingenuity
(Panel)
World Science Festival
NYU Skirball Center
NEW YORK
On Human Robotic
Collaboration
Open Space
NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]
TOKYO
What are the Sensory
Mixes of the Future?
The New Normal
Strelka
MOSCOW
VR / AI Workshop
(with Gene Kogan)
The New Normal
Strelka
MOSCOW
2016
On Human Robotic
Collaboration
Japan Media Arts Festival
National Art Center
TOKYO
Translation, Media, & Music
(Talk with Luisa Pereria )
Loop Festival
Funkhaus
BERLIN
What are the sensory mixes
of the future?
SXSW Analog
AUSTIN
Artist Talk
Drawing Center
NEW YORK
Women in VR
(Panel)
Google
NEW YORK
AI & the Future of Art
Tribeca Film Institute Interactive
Spring Studios
NEW YORK
On Evolvoing Paradigms
of Human & Machine
Artist Talk
Gray Area Festival
SAN FRANCISCO
2015
AI & Artistic Practice
MIT Media Lab
CAMBRIDGE
Artist Talk
OFFF Doha
DOHA
Artist Talk
New Museum
NEW YORK
Interface Allegories
TechneArt
BILBAO
Artist Talk
FITC Tokyo
TOKYO
Artist Talk
FITC Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM
Artist Talk
Toca Me
MUNICH
2014
Century of the Selfie (Keynote Speaker)
Internetdargma
STOCKHOLM
Century of the Selfie (Keynote Speaker)
FITC Toronto
TORONTO
Drawing as Creative Inhabitance
ITP Master Class
Tisch School of the Arts
NEW YORK
Wrapping The World with
Light (Panel)
SXSW
AUSTIN
Artist Talk
FITC Amsterdam
AMSTERDAM
Artist Talk
Alphaville Exchange Festival
LONDON
Artist Talk
OFFF Mexico
MEXICO CITY
Artist Talk
OFFF Barcelona
BARCELONA
2013
Musical Mapping (Panel)
Mapping Festival
Museum of Contemporary Art
GENEVA
Artist Talk
Of Art and Artifice
Art Directors Club
NEW YORK
Artist Talk
Future of Design
PSFK NEW YORK
