sougwen chung

Sougwen (愫君) is a Chinese-raised, Canadian-born, New York based artist. Follow: instagram / twitter / process visit: sougwen.com Currently: #drawingwithdoug #medialab #drawing #speaking #inspiration

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Launching a new project @TED in #Mumbai tomorrow that I hope you can all be a part of, reflecting on the journey it's been to get here. V much in awe of the support of friends, collaborators, and people who've inspired me within the communities I'm privileged to know. Can't believe what came of a lil' #drawingwithdoug almost 5 years ago... . So much more to come ~~ . . 🌹§🌹 . 📸: @michaelgeorge https://ift.tt/2kBxg50

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〰️ #女人志在四方, 2019 〰️ . . Currently in #Mumbai preparing for a talk @TED ... but recalling the warmest day in dreamy Berlin this summer in @sssl_berlin's installation, thinking about #sensorymixesofthefuture and timelines probably. . . "As we reshape the landscape, we forget what was there before -- this forgetting; the “shifting baseline syndrome.” Our newly shaped and ruined landscapes become the new reality. Admiring one landscape and its entanglements often entails forgetting many others. Forgetting, in itself, remakes landscapes, as we privilege some assemblages over others. Yet ghosts remind us. Ghosts point to our forgetting, showing us how living landscapes are imbued with earlier tracks and traces." . . #artsoflivingonadamagedplanet [ redacted ] https://ift.tt/2NpJM4w

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〰️ #女人志在四方 〰️ . . Reading a little about the etymological origins of Vesuvius, a volcano in Naples this morning. It's collatoral forms: Vesaevus, Vesevus, Vesbius and Vesvius From Greek σβέννυμι [ οὔ ] = "unquenchable"; and Vesbia [ ἕω and βίη ] = "hurling violence"; From an Indo-european root [ *eus- < *ewes- < *(a)wes- ] = "the one who lightens"; and Vesta = "hearth" . https://www.instagram.com/p/B1vnywvhfK2/

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〰️ 👁️ 〰️ . A pareidolic image of a tree near the park by one of my former homes in Canada. The image for "Surveillance Anxiety" in The Internet Encyclopedia of Things for Internet Yama-Ichi in 2015.. which I occasionally still think about. . . #yamaichiny #surveillanceanxiety https://ift.tt/30NELp6

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〰️ beginning of a future collaboration 〰️ . . Experienced the legendary Sissel Tolaas' @sssl_berlin breathtaking installation _22 @scheringschiftung yesterday, smell as/of industrial material histories // molecular communication ~ Invisible visible visceral https://ift.tt/2ZMY7tM

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〰️ Where does (A)I end and we begin? 〰️ . . Was a pleasure to speak about co-creation, automation and agency in conversation with @kenricmcdowell and @onformative for 'Making Art with Artificial Intelligence' at Google IO last month. Thanks to Kenric for the thoughtful questions, everyone who came out and the outstanding staff during the event. 📸: @alexczetwertynski . #io19 http://bit.ly/2XLy4T7

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〰️ C A U T I O N 〰️ Install Life . Multi-robotic calibration ✅ Visual and spatial audio check ✅ Imperial court topknot ✅ w @aquarianyes . Many thanks to new collaborators @naughtalie.stone @monomsound @gratianapier @alexczetwertynski @kenricmcdowell for this excellent memory & @paulieanneduke for being a ⭐ . . #DrawingOperations #drawingoperationsduet #drawingwithdoug #humanrobotcollaboration http://bit.ly/2QS5vAW

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Going through some documentation of #DrawingOperationsDuet and found this image of the performance, which reminded me of this excerpt from a book that changed my life. "Frames of attention 1. Entertainment / 2. Interest / 3. Awareness / 4. Intrigue / 5. Boredom / 6. Dynamic Contemplation We are learning new modes of attention— e.g. listening for sense rather than sound (being too message-oriented). Possibly after repetition of the same single phrase or level of language or image for a long while—in a given written text or piece of music or film, if we become bored, we should ask if we are operating in the right frame of attention. " . . #sontag #asconsciousnessisharnessedtoflesh #attention #screenmediation #drawingoperations #drawingwithdoug http://bit.ly/2wEU9aj

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〰️ string figures with companion species 〰️ 2019 Mixed media on Paper 28"x 21" . . Collectively-producing systems that do not have self-defined spatial or temporal boundaries. Information and control are distributed among components. The systems are evolutionary and have the potential for surprising change. . . #donnaharaway #stringfigures #sympoiesis http://bit.ly/2XpZRIF

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Hello NY! I'm sharing a talk about my art and research practice tomorrow at 4 @wsj's The Future of Everything Conference. Stop by and say hello? 🌺 . .#wsjfuturefest #wsjfuture http://bit.ly/30wKoIF

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〰️ What are the sensory mixes of the future? 〰️ . . Foundational imagery for 2019's new projects... . . "Science transforms its languages; Poetry invents it's tongues." . . #gissant #iching #trigrams #ai #speculativearchitecture #poeticsofrelation #cosmotechnics #DrawingOperations #drawingwithdoug http://bit.ly/2VTTFLK

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〰️ encountering the NOVA 〰️ . . Concept sketch for 1 of 6 interpretations of LIGHT for #IntoTheLightAR in collaboration with @yoyoma.official at #Tribeca2019. . Part of an ongoing exploratory series with Nobel-prize winning scientist #RobertWilson, discoverer of the Cosmic Microwave Background, remnants of the earliest light in the universe. As part of my Artist-in-Residency @belllabnokia. . With @vrai_pictures @superbright_ @traverse_fm @jessicabrillhart @igaln @turleyn.hlsl @maxlauter . . #cosmicmicrowavebackground #cmb #sensorymixesofthefuture #cosmotechnics http://bit.ly/2ZN4ldR

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〰️ (beyond the borders of) the field〰️ . . “There is no mysterious essence we can call a 'place'. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind, and preserved in the amber of memory.” Despite ourselves, we made it to another #falcon_friday! Remember to find a way to enjoy the process, all. 🖤 http://bit.ly/2PkjoHk

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〰️ ⬛👁️⬜ 〰️ 📷: @michaelgeorge http://bit.ly/2Ikg6TJ

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〰️ composite identities 〰️ . .function draw(time){gestures_of_becoming aware;} . . technological rupture | metaphysical unity . . #sensorymixesofthefuture #drawing #drawninVR #lines http://bit.ly/2D5yxXZ

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〰️ sometimes polyphony, sometimes counterpoint 〰️ . . Artifact 1, 2019 Graphite on Paper 19" x 24" . . 🤖 - Doug / silver line ✍️ - Me / pale pink . . . A little while ago I spoke to @artsatmit's @propspaper about the role of images in my research. . "The co-creation of an image between human and machine reframes the narrative assigned to artificial intelligence -- that AI is somehow uncoupled from human bias and input. It sets the stage for a broader cultural understanding of the field and posits a different set of research goals. Conceptually, collaboration extends the interaction of human and machine to that of a creative partnership (however aspirationally), in which both agents are implicated. It invites the subjective assessment of an audience as well as encourages research goals defined by aesthetics, interaction, and craft. The role of images, in this case, creates space for intersubjective exploratory narratives to emerge." . . #drawingwithdoug #sketchrnn #drawingoperations #tensorflowstates #humanmachinecollaboration #humanrobotcollaboration https://ift.tt/2UymX1s

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〰️ human / machine flow states 〰️ . Drawing as meditation ~ invocations and flow states. Started recording my brainwave data through and EEG headset while #drawingwithdoug; curious to link it to D.O.U.G._2's system next. . Architecting collaboration as flow between the Phenomenal (unity of experience), cognitive (coherence and integration, and neural (mechanism). . 🤖 - Doug / silver line ✍️ - Me / pale pink . #drawingwithdoug #sketchrnn #drawingoperations #tensorflowstates #humanmachinecollaboration #humanrobotcollaboratiom https://ift.tt/2YSRJBM