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§ ~ 愫君 ~ artist & (re)searcher ~ V&A Permanent Collection ~ human & machine collaboration ~ @TedTalks Speaker

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BODY MACHINE (MERIDIANS) in the wild during my solo show @Muffatwerk in Munich this week 💙 My spatial gestures captured in VR and MoCap, like drawing sculptures in thin air, comprise the source data for these works. Thank you to everyone who has reached out to collect and

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body machine; process pirouettes

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I used to draw differently. My approach to drawing and machine learning, data, and robotics started as a way to evolve my drawing ability by designing artificial intelligence systems, to explore collaboration with a robotic unit.

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"DO NOT DISTURB TINY GRASS IS DREAMING" http://t.co/J6Rwg6PPFa

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Learning my craft through collaboration with machines. 4 years of #drawingwithdoug . . . Preparing to share my new project #OmniaPerOmnia this week -- taking the time to reflect on the practice, the rituals, the research that led to it. . #humanrobotcolla …

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regenerative experiences: Plunge into the sea The sun An old city GENESIS II: BODY MACHINE / Meridians In progress 🎶 @aquarian

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What a tremendous honor to be included in this list @time -- thank you to everyone who has been a part of my journey so far and from now on, feels like we're just getting started 💌

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TIME100 AI 2023: Sougwen Chung

Find out why Sougwen Chung made the TIME100 AI list of the most influential people in artificial intelligence.

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closing the loop between the virtual object to the physical artifact #sensorymixesofthefuture #drawninVR @tiltbrush , printed in resin #vr

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exploring new pluralities Intersubjectivities of human and machine. ( Drawing as a practice of forming internal models and initiating ~ state change ~. ) // where do "I" end and "we" begin? #humanrobotcollaboration #drawingwithdoug

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A pre-order teaser for my first book 💙

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Thank you to @ArtinAmerica magazine and Jason Bailey @artnome for featuring my drawing on their January issue, focusing on Generative Art. This is a milestone in the industry of Art and Technology, and its an truly an honour to be featured here.

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Delighted that discover my @TEDTalk on Art that Blends Human Creativity and AI has reached over 200K views and translated into 18 languages ~! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇪🇸🇫🇷🇭🇺🇳🇱🇧🇷🇵🇹🇹🇷🇷🇺🇺🇦🇧🇬🇲🇰🇶🇦🇮🇷🇲🇲🇨🇳🇯🇵

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I captured my own movements as spatial data to create these GENESIS sculptural forms — each piece is an array of positions, gestures, traces of the body in physical space

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oceanic mutations #drawnsculpture #currents #experiments #vrdrawing #tiltbrush #vr #lineexport thanks @1pld

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A new profile in the @washingtonpost ~~!

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Artist Sougwen Chung wanted collaborators. So she designed and built her own AI robots.

Painting collaboratively with robots guided by artificial intelligence, Sougwen Chung creates human-machine art. In her live performances with A.I. systems, she seeks to change what she calls a...

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Thank you #Monaco for making me your Woman of the Year for achievement in Art and Science for 2019. Deeply honoured and inspired @PrixMCFdA . What a trip.

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Exploring #sensorymixesofthefuture w form studies using #VR as a production tool. Excited to turn these into sculptures soon. #drawninvr

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virtual reality ink studies #drawninvr #etudes #vr #sensorymixesofthefuture #drawing

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machine meridians; the body as a generative system

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speculative robotics inspired by the Mantis shrimp and its energy conservation through it's internal geometric structure. (elastic to kinetic energy conversion through biomimicy) modeled in VR, converting to AR prototype for a physical build soon

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If you ever wondered about why I draw with robots, I shared a bit about my story #drawingwithdoug for @TEDTalks here: .

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Why I draw with robots

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...

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Deeply grateful to @lumenprize , for awarding the Art and Technology Prize to #DrawingOperations , a project I started in 2015 exploring #humanmachinecollaboration . Thank you Carla Rapoport, Jack Addis and the team for your support and welcoming me into the Lumens family. .

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Thank you @artnome for the wonderful article in @ArtinAmerica ! Honoured to be in the company of @annaridler @LIAsomething @glagolista @quasimondo @aaronkoblin @flight404 @goodfellow_ian @ben_fry @REAS @johnmaeda @_joelsimon @c_valenzuelab @joshuadavis

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The Tools of Generative Art, from Flash to Neural Networks

Casey Reas, Joshua Davis, Ben Fry, Helena Sarin, and Sougwen Chung have pioneered the use of new software programs in generative art.

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#selfie / #city ~ perpetually peripatetic ~

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Quick #drawing in #VR ( @tiltbrush export, rendered in #c4d ). Importing to @unity3d next? #filesfilesfiles

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monday meridian mutation self.states = [‘suspension’, ‘ecdysis’, ‘exuviae_excavation’, ‘oankali_subliminality’, ‘imago_formation’] The body as a generative system GENESIS II: BODY MACHINE / meridians in progress 🎶 @aquarian

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Mood for the weekend

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O1 visa renewed. Dearest friends in the US, you are stuck with me for another 3 years ~~ 🖖

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"Alien of extraordinary ability?" Aww shucks, you shouldn't have. Thanks America ~~ O1 Visa achievement unlocked! http://t.co/ot8mN2ZFe0

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blank canvas #drawninvr #experiments

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#drawingwithdoug at my studio. I spent a lot of time this year quietly working with robots and exploring, researching, and writing about collaboration with machines. So much to share in 2018! ~ #humanrobotcollaboration #sensorymixesofthefuture

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an ecstatic accident produced of void and fire

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sediment and flow

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"Go where you are rare."

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Two weeks left for one of my favourite projects from last year; ASSEMBLY LINES, a multi-robotic installation I developed exploring meditation, collective presence, & mark-making with machines. It debuted during In Search Of the Present at Emma Museum in Finland. @emmamuseum

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// when they start to love you as a machine you should run // . . exploring #RelationalRobotics recently, a teaser in progress

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Snowy saturdays well spent #drawingwithdoug in the studio ❄️❄️❄️

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~ études ~ exp w spatial mark making in #vr as a production tool. Mov studies #tiltbrush #vrdrawing (Currently looking for #unity3d collabs)

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string figures with companion species

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〰️ a sepal, a petal, and a thorn 〰️ . 2020 Mixed Media 42" x 56" . EEG painting studies on digitized petals. The flower, scanned last Dec, has long since decomposed but preserved in memory & reinterpreted w my biometric data, recorded in the jungle. Part of an ongoing series.

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I've been working on creating physical prototypes of bio-inspired speculative robotics, envisioning sensuous lines, organic circuitry, microbial fuel, nested symbiotic ecosystems.

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( when they start to love you as a machine you should run )

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body machine / golden hour

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Test for #VR sculpture fabrication. #drawing #lines #flow Satisfying to see the form evolve from its early debut @NEWINC 's demo day.

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Featured in Art Basel Stories Was a nice surprise to see the work featured in @artbasel Stories written by Brian Droitcour, editor-in-chief of @outland_art . Honoured to be featured in the company of @quasimondo and @hollyplus_ @matdryhurst

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the body as a generative system sculptural robotic forms created from spatial data of my own movements, a selection from BODY MACHINES . "No island is an island, he said. There is no new land, Just the same body broken open." - Matt Rasmussen, Black Aperture: Poems

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Tbh I've been working with AI systems for almost 10 years and it's only deepened my relationship with drawing, painting, sculpture and image making... With the recent wave of interest in art made with AI tools, what becomes of the human hand? The written word?

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breathing underwater GENESIS II: BODY MACHINE / Meridians in progress 🎶 @aquarian

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Back in #nyc ~

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Tokyo 💌

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In Berlin early July? I'll be speaking at the Generative Art Summit on July 4th -- come by!

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sketch for a #cephalopod -inspired #glass robot; selective #mutations ~ wind tunnels ~ currents : cognition ~ #drawninvr #speculativerobotics

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Reflections on AI and art for @nytimes and outing myself as having two phones 🤳📲

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Agential materials, speculation as a mode of production, xenophilia and IMAGO

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🌀 #dendochronologic 🌀

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In early May I quietly relocated myself and the Doug(s) to the 🇬🇧 UK. A cadre of English foxes come by to visit us by the window every so often ~ I have yet to get a proper picture of them, but I'll keep you posted.

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〰️ THE HUMAN HAND IS ALWAYS PRESENT 〰️ . . Performing "Drawing Operations (Duet)" with spatial sound by @4dsound and score by @aquarianyes . Special thanks to @naughtalie .stone Curated by @alexczetwertynski @kenricmcdowell

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BODY MACHINE (MERIDIANS) fully collected in under 30 minutes! Thank you to the collectors for seeing the vision and supporting the work, can't wait to share the evolution with you. 💙

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// Quarantine, Day 1: Open Circle, Lived Relation // Vipassana Meditation, 20 min -- Drawing and meditation share so many similarities for me. Repetition (through gesture and mantra), an activation of the non-conscious experience, a centering state.

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// pulling the instrument apart // Some process vignettes this month for @GazelliArtHouse / Music: Sudany - Sophie Birch and Antonina Nowacka

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I've been enjoying sharing works in progress over the past little while. BODY MACHINE is a series of works of my movements as sculpture, traces in thin air made visible -- the body as a generative system.

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What’s powerful for me about the digital space is the ability to create what’s in your imagination, and then inhabit it.

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Perennial panopticon quick sketch in #VR ( @tiltbrush export, rendered in #c4d ) #vrdrawing …

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Spatial drawing choreography as machine imaginary #bodymachine

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Perpetually a work in process ~ in Hong Kong sharing a live performance and launching a new project soon 🌊

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〰️ collaboration concedes control 〰️ . . Honoured that #DrawingOperations is longlisted for the 2019 @LumenPrize for Art and Technology. Feeling very grateful for all who have supported the project from it's humble beginnings.

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Here’s a moment of meditative euphoria during my off-grid expedition and research residency in the Arctic Circle; I spent five minutes submerged in 0.2c glacial melt. Feeling the unending polar sun and calving glaciers affect the temperature of the water on a daily basis by

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Awestruck seeing my visual work for @sepalcure projected on the SAT dome @mutekmontreal @boilerroomtv last wknd

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A perk of the practice is the privilege of a broad view —Delighted to see legacies overlapping across generations and continents this morning — saw Cybernetic Serendipity curated by Jasia Reichardt in numerous presentations at Generative Art Summit in Berlin. Speaking at its

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愫 from the wingbone of a vulture, I've made you a harp.

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Layering legacies excavating canons making meaning making machines @quasimondo @ivonatau @operator_______ @sashastiles @CaballeroAnaMa @Reeps1 #generativeartsummit

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VR drawing to physical object. Resin Prototype fresh off the print bed . . . #vr #sculpture #resin #sensorymixesofthefuture #drawninVR

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Interesting convos this month; in HK w @hansulrichobrist on the influence of Gutai on #drawingwithdoug yesterday on the artistic precedents of AI for @ChristianePaul2 's new book thoughts on performance and technology w @operator_______ for @outland_art to be published soon 💙

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"We are not who we were not very long ago" abstract avatars -- drawn in #VR ~ #portraits #vrdrawing #sensorymixesofthefuture

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// Bio-feedback as rupture //

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Performance environment for F.R.A.N. Flora Rearing Agricultural Network: Live in Tokyo @line_cube last December for @MUTEK_JP

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A dataset of speculative machine constructions, in progress

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"a robot does not exist, it is not a machine, only a product of imagination, of fictive fabrication, the art of illusion" movement dataset as speculative robotics, kinetic meridians and body machines

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〰️ How do you draw what you can't see? 〰️ . . Compiling a list of abstract classifiers for a collective data set [ other, self, world ] For training a new generation of #DrawingwithDoug . (Suggestions from all are welcome!) . .

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virtual avatars, in progress "We use drawing to denote ourselves; our existence within scene." #vrdrawing #sensorymixesofthefuture

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Spatial data in motion — the body is a generative system. Thinking about where my new speculative machine studies sits in relation to Joanna Zylinska’s writing in her book Perception Machines. “an understanding of machines as encapsulating organic and nonorganic components, as

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What are you in the process of unlearning?

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epiphanies and enclaves; speculative bodies / body machines

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"The imagination is nothing unless it is made actual" physical manifestation of my speculative robotics series (ongoing). Still entranced by the tactility of rapid prototyping, visual properties of clear resin. Maybe glass next?

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Drawing Operations wins an award for excellence from Japan MediaArts #JMAF @newinc @newhive

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an evolution of the Ground Truths series called Pulse Sediments -- a custom dataset of my collaborative paintings with D.O.U.G._4 iterating on views of the planet captured from satellites.

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@sougwen What are we looking at here?

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“These are the times to grow our souls. Each of us is called upon to embrace the conviction that despite the powers and principalities bent on commodifying all our human relationships, we have the power within us to create the world anew.” - Grace Lee Boggs

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What is one book that changed your life?

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// witness -- containment fields -- microbial worlds //

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"the contours you have drawn no longer marking the edge of what you have seen but what you have become" BODY MACHINE experiments set up in London

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§ #inprogress #form #dispersal #elevations #organic #waves

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