sougwen 愫君
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§ ~ artist & (re)searcher ~ human & machine collaboration ~ TIME100 Most Influential People in AI ~ MEMORY First AI Model collected by major institution V&A
London / Global
Joined July 2007
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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SPECTRAL .kinetic installation 2024 custom robotics, machine learning, brainwave and gestural data, paint and perspex
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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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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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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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Quick #drawing in #VR (@tiltbrush export, rendered in #c4d). Importing to @unity3d next? #filesfilesfiles
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London friends; I’ll be performing here end of the month 💎 come by!
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O1 visa renewed. Dearest friends in the US, you are stuck with me for another 3 years ~~ 🖖.
"Alien of extraordinary ability?" Aww shucks, you shouldn't have. Thanks America ~~ O1 Visa achievement unlocked! http://t.co/ot8mN2ZFe0.
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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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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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~ 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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〰️ 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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"Definition of the internal relationship is never-ending, in other words unrecognizable in turn, because the components of a culture, even when located, cannot be reduced to the indivisibility of prime elements. But such a definition is a working model. It allows us to imagine."
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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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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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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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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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Agential materials, speculation as a mode of production, xenophilia and IMAGO
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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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// 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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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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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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// 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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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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The artist as an open system — thank you @kevinabosch and @jenifulton for an illuminating conversation @artbasel Miami. Thank you to everyone who braved the Miami traffic to come 🩵 . Honoured to speak about curiosity and criticality in AI — a stimulating and fun one in equal
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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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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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𝘤𝘺𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥𝘴; 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘱𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘪𝘳 . on view last month at DER TANK: The Centre for Art Gender and Nature as part of @HEK_Basel's #MESHFESTIVAL
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Layering legacies excavating canons making meaning making machines @quasimondo @ivonatau @operator_______ @sashastiles @CaballeroAnaMa @Reeps1 #generativeartsummit
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Awestruck seeing my visual work for @sepalcure projected on the SAT dome @mutekmontreal @boilerroomtv last wknd
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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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VR drawing to physical object. Resin Prototype fresh off the print bed . #vr #sculpture #resin #sensorymixesofthefuture #drawninVR
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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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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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"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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"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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virtual avatars, in progress. "We use drawing to denote ourselves; our existence within scene.". #vrdrawing #sensorymixesofthefuture
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