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Robotic sculptures that draw with field data
Sougwen Chung turns gestural drawing data and environmental field data from forests, glaciers and deserts into biomimetic robotic sculptures that appear to draw in space.
Extended first-person interview on the field process
Official project page and process record
What it does
See AI as one stage in a longer material process: data capture, custom models, simulation, and large physical forms that appear to draw.
Who it helps
People interested in art that leaves the screen — robotics, gesture and physical making.
How it was made
- Models
- Custom models · trained on the artist’s gesture data — creator-reported
- Tools
- Gesture and field-data capture · Source material from drawings, forests, glaciers and desertsRobotic fabrication · Turning the forms physical
- The series starts with capture: gestural drawing data and environmental field data recorded across forests, glaciers and deserts.
- Custom models are trained and simulated, then tested through material studies before the large forms are fabricated.
- The same movement language runs from data to the finished sculpture — the branching forms feel grown and engineered at once.
What the person did
Chung leads the practice and the movement language; the public record documents custom model training without publishing the architecture or code.
What we know
Creator-reported: The official project page and the studio interview; the series dates from 2024 and continued through 2025 exhibitions. Custom models are documented but their architecture is not published.
Access checked — 2026-09-28 · Opened the project page and the studio interview on 2026-09-28.
Can you use it?
The artist’s site is copyright Sougwen Chung and SCILICET; we link only and host no images. The cover is an original Made With Models illustration, not a photo of the sculpture.
About this project
Picked by Made With Models. Added 2026-09-28. Updated 2026-09-28.