Sougwen Chung

In the organizer's words:

GENESIS

Media Art Exhibition

Opening hours:
Fri 30.08. Opening 7 pm to 11 pm,
Sat 2 pm to 11 pm, Sun 11 am to 8 pm,
Mon to Thu 7 pm to 11 pm

Chinese-Canadian artist and researcher Sougwen Chung is coming to the Muffatwerk on Friday, August 30, 2024, to open her first solo exhibition in Munich.

Known for her cross-generational robotic system called Drawing Operations Unit Generation_ (D.O.U.G.), Chung, who now lives in London, has made a name for herself as a former artist-in-resident at MIT Media Lab and Bell Labs and as a TED speaker, and was recently named one of the 100 most influential people in the field of artificial intelligence by TIME Magazine.

Curated and produced by the artist studio SCILICET in collaboration with the Muffatwerk's in-house team, Sougwen Chung presents several large-scale works in the Muffathalle as well as in one of the studio spaces. GENESIS is an ongoing research project that explores the evolution of the drawn line and robotic form. The project begins with a collection of speculative machine constructions inspired by living organisms.

At the Muffathalle, Chung will show three large-scale new works;

[b]GENESIS: Stage I[/b] consists of a performance film created in collaboration with New York studio Zerospace, accompanied by a 3D-printed sculpture depicting the artist's digital drawing in three-dimensional space, as well as a series of GENESIS forms and a bespoke soundtrack by collaborative partner Aquarian.

A central position in the space is occupied by Chung's latest kinetic installation [b]SPECTRAL[/b], which consists of the robotic system D.O.U.G._4, which is connected to the artist's brainwaves and poetically reproduces their movements on a transparent screen.

Sougwen Chung will also present the first works of a new series of digital drawings entitled [b]BODY MACHINE[/b], which conceive of the body as a (re)generative system. These abstract process forms are the result of a growing spatial data set, D.O.U.G._6.

Finally, in the studio spaces, visitors will find the screening of Chung's [b]Assembly Lines: Expanse[/b] [Expanse. Documented during a performance with D.O.U.G._5 at the Espoo Museum of Modern Art in 2022, which was followed by the acquisition of the work into the permanent collection, this can be seen as the German premiere of the performance film, which has so far been shown in Espoo, Beijing, London, Dubai, Basel and Hong Kong.

GENESIS Credits:
by Sougwen Chung
Curation STUDIO SCILICET I Sougwen Chung & Tessa Nijdam
Production STUDIO SCILICET I Tessa Nijdam, Pedro Maia & Arina Ermakova
Curator Genesis Munich: Dietmar Lupfer

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