Upon invitation from Joseph Fowler, Head of Arts and Culture at World Economic Forum, Sougwen Chung will give a talk at the Cultural Table taking place within the WEF's Industry Strategy Meeting on May 14.
Reflecting on the evolving relationship between human and machine, Chung will share their vision for the future of this field through their ongoing research and creative practice.
Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Venue: The Conduit, London, UK
As part of the Public Program for Art Week Riyadh 2025, the talk ‘The Value of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction’ will be held on April 11 at 7PM at JAX, Riyadh.
The conversation, hosted by Shumon Basar, curator of the Public Program, brings together artists Mathew Dryhurst and Lawrence Lek, artist and filmmaker Anhar Salem, and artist and researcher Sougwen Chung.
This panel explores how new technologies operate as both medium and message, examining their role in shaping artistic expression and analysing the potential for symbiosis between human and machine creativity.
Friday, April 11, 2025
7:00pm-8:30pm
Venue: Art Week Riyadh Public Program Venue, JAX District
As digital and physical realms merge, how can art move beyond technology to foster deeper human connections? Sougwen Chung, Hannes Koch and Florian Ortkrass of Random International, and Lu Yang come together in the panel 'Beyond AI, Art, and Technology: Creating Human Connection' moderated by Sewon Chung Barrera of M+ and organised as part of The Swire Properties Dialogue Series. The panelists will explore the intersections of art, AI, robotics, systems, and immersive experiences.
Friday, March 28, 2025
3:30pm - 4:30pm
Venue: Swire Properties VIP Lounge, Level 1, Art Basel, HKCEC
In February, Sougwen Chung visited Elisava School of Design and Engineering in Barcelona to give a talk titled 'Seeing Double, Bridging Dualities with Relational Intelligence'.
As part of the Elisava Masters' Talks series, Chung reflected on their ongoing research with the question: “Where does AI end, and where does humanity begin?”. The Masters' Talks, which feature internationally renowned speakers, bring together professionals from diverse fields, including design, communication, architecture, industrial design engineering, art, and innovation. Chung's talk followed in the footsteps of previous speakers like Lev Manovich, Eyal Weizman of Forensic Architecture, and Sissel Tolaas, who have shared their expertise on the intersection of technology and human experience in this multidisciplinary series.
Coming Friday, Sougwen Chung will participate in a panel on Asia Futurism, organized in collaboration with Artnet, as part of The Art Market 2050. The discussion will also feature Carrie Chan (V&A) and Sammi Liu (Tabula Rasa Gallery), with moderation by Vivienne Chow (Artnet). This panel will explore the influence of technology on artists of Asian heritage and investigate the intersection of Western and Asian art markets concerning technology-based artworks.
Location
Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA)
66 Portland Place
London W1B 1AD
Panel
Friday, October 11 at 2pm
This July, Sougwen 愫君 Chung had the honor of participating in the Generative Art Summit Berlin, where the intersection of AI and art took centre stage. The event explored pressing questions around the relationship between human creativity and machine intelligence, with discussions led by Sabine Himmelsbach, director of the HEK (House of Electronic Arts) in Basel. Alongside robotics and AI pioneer Mario Klingemann and fellow AI art pioneer Ivona Tau, Chung joined the conversation on the evolving dynamics and delicate tension between human creativity and machine intelligence. It was a truly illuminating journey, casting new light on the future of this frontier and the complexities that surround it.
With the support of the Association for Robots in Architecture, Sougwen had the pleasure of participating in ROB|ARCH 2024, delivering a keynote lecture on the conference's main theme, Beyond Optimization, this past May. Inspired by insightful lectures from Brian Ringley and Yusuke Obuchi, Chung left the conference with fresh perspectives on the reality of the incomputable.
Thank you to the organizers, the University of Toronto (UofT) and Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), for making the event possible.
From the AI for Good Website
Increasingly, multidisciplinary artists and creative technologists are guiding the bleeding edge of innovation, and establishing crucial new narratives for wider society. In this episode, Sougwen Chung will offer an intimate insight into her work — illustrating the technicality and methodology of her practice; her exemplary projects; and theoretical ideas which color and stretch our present day understanding of social and technological synergy. WHAT IS A.I.V.I.? The Artistic Intelligence Visionary Initiative (A.I.V.I) is an AI for Good initiative curated by R100Studios, seeking out the artists who create works that aid our understating of technology and guide our future relationships with innovation and culture. The initiative helps us illuminate and celebrate the role of the artistic expert in shaping our futures and cultivating practical new attitudes to research, communication and narrative.
link to Sougwen's Profile on AI for Good
What happens when humans and robots make art together? In this awe-inspiring talk, artist Sougwen Chung shows how she "taught" her artistic style to a machine -- and shares the results of their collaboration after making an unexpected discovery: robots make mistakes, too. "Part of the beauty of human and machine systems is their inherent, shared fallibility," she says.
This talk was presented at a TED Institute event given in partnership with BCG. TED editors featured it among our selections on the home page. Read more about the TED Institute.
