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, as well as an Artist in Residence at Nokia Bell Labs, Studio Wayne McGregor, 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, Chung’s project Drawing Operations, a Human & Robot Collaboration exploring performance and machine learning, won the Japan Media Arts Award for Excellence in Media Arts. More recently, Chung was recognized as a Cultural Leader at the World Economic Forum and named one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI.
Sougwen’s multidisciplinary work has been exhibited internationally, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Geneva, The New Museum of Contemporary Art and The Drawing Center in New York, the NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC) in Tokyo, and the Espoo Museum of Modern Art. The artist’s work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Designboom, Fast Company, Engadget and USA Today.
As one of the pioneering artists of this generation, Sougwen Chung challenges the imagination through minimalist yet dramatic forms. Sougwen’s art speaks of movement and change, reflecting 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
Selected Speaking
2024 — Keynote Presentation: Beyond Optimization, Rob|Arch 2024, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
2024 — Speaker, Experiments and Experience: Indeterminacy and the Dao Seminar, Kings College, London, UK
2024 — Speaker, AI UK, The Alan Turing Institute, London, UK
2024 — Speaker, Cybernetic Serendipity: Towards AI, London, Institute of Contemporary Art ICA, London, UK
2023 — Cultural Leader, Annual Meeting of the New Champions World Economic Forum, Tianjin, China
2023 — Panelist on Creativity, AI For Good, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
2023 — Future Experts Series, Museum of the Future, Dubai
2023 — Keynote: Generative AI & IP UNESCO Paris, FR
2023 — Keynote Speaker: Seeing Double, Creative Robotics Symposium, University of the Arts, London, UK
2023 — As Above So Below, Ignota Books x Gaia Art Foundation, Science Gallery, London, UK
2023 — Creative Machine Symposium, Goldsmiths and University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
2023 — Keynote Speaker: Seeing Double, Open Ended Design, KOKO Lab, London, United Kingdom
2023 — Creating the Future, Drawing from the Past, Adobe Max, Los Angeles, US
2023 — Future of Creativity Panel, Gazelli Art House, London UK
2023 — Artist Talk, Design Investigations (Led by Anab Jain), Vienna, Austria
2023 — Keynote Presentation, Volvo Art Session, Zurich, Switzerland
2023 — Age of AI, Kings College, London UK
2022 — Seeing Double Keynote Lecture, SIGGRAPH, Vancouver CA
2022 — Artist Talk in conversation with Zakkiyah Iman Jackson, Future Humans, Berggruen Institute, LA, USA
2022 — Seeing Double (Performance Lecture) Sónar, Barcelona, Spain
2022 — In Search of the Present Artist Panel with Holly Herndon & Others Helsinki Design Festival, Helsinki Fi
2022 — Seeing Double (Performance Lecture), Global AI Summit, Riyadh, Saudi-Arabia
2022 — Artist Talk in conversation with Freya Murray London Design Festival, London
2022 — Making Art with AI (Panel) Columbia University, New York NY
2022 — Seeing Double (Performance Lecture) NOVA Festival Bucharest, Romania
2022 — Artist Talk in conversation with Daito Manabe, Mutek Japan, Tokyo JP
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 IMX2021 New York City, NY
2021 — Speaker World Artificial Intelligence Conference Shanghai, CN
2021 — Robots as Companions: In Convo w M. Gannon & M. Yablonovich University of Toronto Toronto, CA
2020 — AI and its Others: In Convo with Maya Indira Ganesh and Armen Avanessian, Volksbühne, 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 — The Art and Language of Creativity Neurips Vancouver, CA
2019 — Why I Draw with Robots TED Mumbai, IN
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
