Sougwen Chung Keynote Speaker

Sougwen Chung is an internationally renowned multi-disciplinary artist and researcher, who uses hand-drawn and technologically-reproduced marks to address the closeness between person-to-person and person-to-machine communication.

Chung is a former research fellow at MIT’s Media Lab, as well as an Artist in Residence at Nokia Bell Labs, Studio Wayne McGregor, and New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York.

In 2016, Sougwen was an Artist in Residence at Google, exploring innovative ways to utilize virtual reality as a medium for storytelling and rapid prototyping. Concurrently, Chung’s project Drawing Operations, a Human & Robot Collaboration exploring performance and machine learning, won the Japan Media Arts Award for Excellence in Media Arts. More recently, Chung was recognized as a Cultural Leader at the World Economic Forum and named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in AI.

Sougwen’s multidisciplinary work has been exhibited internationally, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Geneva, The New Museum of Contemporary Art and The Drawing Center in New York, the NTT InterCommunication Center (ICC) in Tokyo, and the Espoo Museum of Modern Art. The artist’s work has been featured in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Designboom, Fast Company, Engadget and USA Today.

As one of the pioneering artists of this generation, Sougwen Chung challenges the imagination through minimalist, yet dramatic forms. Sougwen’s art speaks of movement and change, reflecting images of nature in a truly modern setting.