Sougwen Chung

Sougwen 愫君 Chung is a Chinese Canadian artist and researcher, widely regarded as a pioneer in human–machine collaboration. Their work MEMORY (Drawing Operations Unit: Generation_2) is part of the permanent collection of the V&A, London, the first AI model to be collected by a major cultural institution.

Chung’s multidisciplinary practice spans installation, drawing, performance and sculpture in dialogue with robotics, machine learning and bio-sensing. Through these interwoven forms, they investigate the shifting relationships between the gesture of the hand and the gesture of the machine. Their work conceives collaboration as an evolving coaesthetic system, in which human, machine and environment co-produce open choreographies of perception and meaning. Chung is also the founder of SCILICET, an experimental, London-based studio.