Mark Chu
Mark Chu (born 1989) is an Australian multidisciplinary artist and writer. His public murals are shown in Atlantic City[1][2][3] and Melbourne,[4] and he has held painting exhibitions in Melbourne, Shanghai[5] and New York,[6] often focusing on the human figure.[7] Chu's 2013 debut solo show exhibited specimens of his own dandruff[8] and in 2019 he undertook the Q Bank Gallery Residency in Queenstown, Tasmania.[9] In contributions to scientific research, Chu has co-authored papers in Elsevier's Cognition (journal)[10] and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics Conference,[11] and the Association for Computing Machinery's Creativity and Cognition Conference.[12] In 2019 he graduated from the Santa Fe Institute's Complex Systems Summer School[13] where he co-founded the aesthetics research collective Comp-syn[14] who are 2021 European Commission STARTS Prize semifinalists.[15] Chu is a past restaurant reviewer for The Age Good Food Guide.[16] At thirteen years old he recorded as a piano soloist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra[17] and was a 2005 keyboard finalist in the ABC Young Performers Awards. He is a fiction graduate of Columbia University's MFA and past winner of the engineering school's interdisciplinary design challenge.[18]
Mark Chu is the son of Chinese-Australia composer Chu Wanghua, and grandson of Chinese scholar and dissident Chu Anping.
References
- ^ "Artists put the final touches on ARTeriors installations | Latest Headlines | pressofatlanticcity.com".
- ^ Rosenberg, Amy S. "Can art save Atlantic City, this time?".
- ^ NJ.com, Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for (May 26, 2019). "Artists transformed Jersey Shore town. See how their murals were made in 7 days". nj.
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- ^ "Mark Chu 储波". m.artgogo.com.
- ^ Cotter, Holland (April 3, 2014). "Where Blue-Chip Brands Meet Brassy Outliers" – via NYTimes.com.
- ^ "Mark Chu Archives » fortyfivedownstairs".
- ^ "Mark Chu's SKIN". Broadsheet.
- ^ "Totem by Mark Chu – Q Bank Gallery".
- ^ "Color associations in abstract semantic domains". Cognition. 201: 104306. August 1, 2020. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104306 – via www.sciencedirect.com.
- ^ Srinivasa Desikan, Bhargav; Hull, Tasker; Nadler, Ethan; Guilbeault, Douglas; Abubakar Kar, Aabir; Chu, Mark; Lo Sardo, Donald Ruggiero (December 15, 2020). "comp-syn: Perceptually Grounded Word Embeddings with Color". International Committee on Computational Linguistics. pp. 1744–1751. doi:10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.154 – via ACLWeb.
- ^ "Millenia as Moment: A Triptych in 75 Colorgrams by Comp-syn". C&C '21: Creativity and Cognition: 1–4. June 23, 2021.
- ^ "Mark Chu | Santa Fe Institute". www.santafe.edu. Retrieved 2021-06-19.
- ^ "Chromatic Identities - Appetite". appetitesg.com.
- ^ "The semifinalists of the STARTS Prize for Social Good". Nesta Italia. May 17, 2021.
- ^ "Aesthetics for Civilization via Food and Art". www.europenowjournal.org.
- ^ "Fiction, Faces and Fine Art - Writer and Artist Mark Chu". February 13, 2018.
- ^ "Interdisciplinary Design Challenge Targets Opioid Crisis". Columbia Engineering. February 6, 2018.