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Sougwen Chung will be performing a live atelier painting with her robots DOUG5 at
Scorpios Bodrum this September 2024
The intricate 3D gestural expressions in GENESIS Forms come to life through diverse fabrication techniques, from large-format 3D printing to custom chrome plating. The result is a process that speculates on the collapsing of boundaries of architecture, drawing and dance.
The serpentine form, suspended within the room, mirrors the liquid mercury texture, with its contours reflecting the intricate process on the surrounding walls. Beyond shaping perceptions of the mark-image relationship, the incorporation of infrared, lidar, and positional sensors in virtual reality software establishes a foundation for a novel integration of embodied cognitive processes.
GENESIS PROCESS: LIFELINES
From the spatially recorded lines digital geometries are generated for physical fabrication, returning the marks-made-by-hand in virtual space back to the tactile materiality of physical space.
This unique GENESIS Process, called LIFE/LINES, brings together the latest advances in dimensional markmaking, virtual reality fabrication, and motion capture avatars.The work is sculpted using spatial technologies, in which the drawn lines are suspended and scale is a permeable medium. The motion of the artist body in motion is recorded and rigged to a 3d avatar to show the process unfolding as a performance, a cinematic unfolding of traces that blurs the lines between architecture, sculpture, drawing and dance.
GENESIS is built upon drawing in spatial and temporal dimensions, rooted in the belief that novel sensory processes can create new speculative forms. The project prompts exploration into the potential of spatial sensing and human-machine interoperability in emerging artistic intersubjectivities. It convergences artistic vision and technological progress, unveiling new forms of expression and cognition.
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READING LIST
Duan, Jiafei, et al. “A Survey of Embodied AI: From Simulators to Research Tasks.” arXiv.Org, 5 Jan. 2022, arxiv.org/abs/2103.04918v8.
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Dos Santos, Victoria. “(Techno)Paganism: An Exploration of Animistic Relations with the Digital.” MDPI, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 3 Nov. 2023, www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/11/1382.
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Bidgoli, Ardavan, et al. “Artistic Style in Robotic Painting; a Machine Learning Approach to Learning Brushstroke from Human Artists.” arXiv.Org, 28 July 2020, arxiv.org/abs/2007.03647.
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Han, Byung-Chul, and Daniel Steuer. The Disappearance of Rituals a Topology of the Present. Polity, 2020.
SELECTED PRESS
“Serpenti Meets Contemporary Artists: Bulgari.” Bvlgari, www.bulgari.com/en-gb/serpenti-75-artists.html. Accessed 12 Dec. 2023.Designboom, Matthew Burgos |. “Bulgari Marks 75 Years of Serpenti Jewelry with Live Robot Arm Chiseling in Its Milan Exhibition.” Designboom, 14 Oct. 2023, www.designboom.com/art/bulgari-75-years-serpenti-factory-jewelry-milan-exhibition-10-12-2023/.
Sougwen Chung | Genesis: Soho House Istanbul
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