Putting The Art In Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation With Sougwen Chung

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. She is a former research fellow at the M.I.T. Media Lab and current Artist in Residence at Bell Labs and New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. For the uninitiated, what is human-machine collaboration? Sougwen Chung: Human-machine collaboration is a perspective of technology not as a tool, but as a collaborator. It stems from an understanding that the relationship between humans and their tools have changed.