Looking Outwards-09

For this week’s blog, I wanted to highlight the accomplishments and work of Sougwen Chung, a Chinese-Canadian female identifying multidisciplinary artist who bases the majority of her art on the conversation between humans and machinery. She is a former researcher at MIT’s Media lab, and currently works in a London-based studio. A specific piece that I found uniquely interesting is her piece called “Omnia per Omnia”, in which the project reimagines the traditional art of landscape painting as a collaboration between an artist, a robotic swarm, and the dynamic flow of a city. Chung creates these beautiful and intriguing artworks through the collaboration of ‘Doug’, her robotic arm that paints, powered by artificial intelligence. Chung uses the arm alongside other robots in her artworks, working together in a sort of dance. I admire the creativity and nuance approach Chung utilizes throughout her art pieces, each project more unique and meaningful than the other.