Human Machine Collaboration:

During my research i discovered an inspiring artist. I want to talk about her this week since in my opinion we have a lot in common in terms of subject of research. Sougwen Chung is an internationally renowned artist and researcher exploring the boundaries of collaboration between human and machine. She conducted several exhibitions focusing on different aspects of human machine collaboration. Here are some selected artworks that share similar intentions of mine:

Drawing Operations Unit: Generation 1(2015):

The robot mimics the artist's drawing gesture and vice versa in real time, resulting in a synchronous, interpretive performance. This is her first stage of an ongoing study examining human and robotic interaction as an artistic collaboration.

Drawing Operations Unit: Generation 2: Memory (2017)

An ongoing series exploring machine learning and the artist's hand.

Gestures from previous drawings are collected and saved, existing as a memory bank for D.O.U.G._2. Analysis of visual style of historic artists to translate into gesture, as well as colour palette as a collective memory bank from which robotic arm will be able to select.

Omnia per Omnia (2018)

Drawings created during quarantine lockdown

In collaboration with D.O.U.G._5

BiHua (2020)

Exploring ideas in Cosmotechnics through gesture; the Dao of traditional chinese painting techniques re-envisioned in VR

Indeterminacy Scores (2020)

 

feat. Drawing Operations (robotic) Unit, Generation 4

Paintings as sound compositions

 

Referencing John Cage's Fontina Mix, 1958, a provocation for "musical scores of indeterminacy", these experiments were created in collaboration with D.O.U.G._4, with contact mics recording real-time sound feedback on canvas.

 

 

 

Distance (2020)

Gestures of Becoming-With (2020-2021)

 

feat. Drawing Operations (robotic) Unit, Generation 4, Isloation Drawings created during quarantine lockdown

Studies for a Flora Rearing Agricultural Network (F.R.A.N) (2021)

 

These works explore co-naturality, the poetics of "reciprocity between the technological and natural." Organic forms resembling flowers painted with visualizations of Chung's brainwave data.

Wave Studies (2021)

Observing her approach to the machines, i suppose she sees them as real collaborators or colleagues. Thus, she mixes the artificial and natural media to diminish the seperation between the man and machine. Instead of "using" them, she "collaborates" with them to get inspiration and to dive into an uncharted territory of human-machine collaboration which results in yet uncharted artworks.