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Sougwen Chung

Award-winning media artist exploring Human / Robot Collaboration & Virtual Reality; Artist in Residence at Google, Bell Labs & New Museum

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Speaker Sougwen Chung is an award-winning artist and researcher exploring the evolving collaboration between humans and machines. Combining art, technology, and performance, she redefines creativity through projects that merge human intuition with artificial intelligence. Recognized by TIME as one of the 100 Most Influential People in AI, she continues to inspire global audiences with her visionary approach to human–machine co-creation.

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    Sougwen Chung biography

    Speaker Sougwen Chung is an award-winning artist and researcher who explores the evolving collaboration between humans and machines. Drawing on her background as a research fellow at MIT’s Media Lab, she blends technology, art, and also performance to question what it means to create in an age of artificial intelligence. She has held residencies at Nokia Bell Labs, Studio Wayne McGregor, and New York’s New Museum of Contemporary Art.

    In 2016, Sougwen joined Google as an Artist in Residence, where she experimented with virtual reality to develop new approaches to storytelling and rapid prototyping. That same year, she launched Drawing Operations—a live human-robot collaboration that examines how performance and machine learning can shape artistic expression. The project received the Japan Media Arts Award for Excellence in Media Arts, marking a pivotal moment in her creative journey.

    Sougwen’s forward-thinking approach to art and innovation has earned her recognition as a Cultural Leader at the World Economic Forum and one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People in AI. Through her multidisciplinary practice, she explores movement, empathy, and the emotional resonance of human-machine interaction.

    Her work appears in major international exhibitions, including the Museum of Contemporary Art 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 in Finland. Publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times, Fast Company, Designboom, Engadget, and USA Today have highlighted her groundbreaking work.

    Speaker Sougwen Chung redefines creativity through direct engagement with intelligent systems. Her art captures the flow between human intuition and machine precision, inviting audiences to see technology not as a replacement for humanity, but as a partner in imagining new forms of beauty, empathy, and transformation.

    Sougwen Chung Speaking Videos

    Sougwen Chung - Why I draw with robots
    Artist Sougwen Chung works in synergy with robots to expand her creative practice

    Sougwen Chung Keynote Topics

    Sougwen explores how emerging technologies like AI and the Metaverse are transforming artistic expression, collaboration, and the creative process.

    This keynote examines the evolving partnership between humans and machines, revealing how collaboration can spark innovation across disciplines.

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