Sougwen Chung narrates her exploration of human–machine collaboration in art. She describes deciding to treat machines as non-human collaborators rather than mere tools, and over recent months worked with her team to develop 20 custom robots that operate as a collective with her to create artworks that neither could make alone, emphasizing a shared, productive fallibility.
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Machines are starting to be able to do the work traditionally done by humans. What will become of the human hand? I started thinking maybe machines don't need to be just tools, but they can function as non human collaborators. I knew I wanted to explore this idea of human non human collaboration at scale. So over the past few months, I worked with my team to develop 20 custom robots that could work with me as a collective. And through collaboration, we create something that neither of us could have done alone. Maybe part of the beauty of human and machine systems is their shared inherent fallibility.
