Mark Chu
Mark Bo Chu (born May 12, 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] Chu's 2021 concept sculpture "The Giving Ox" was intentionally fixed at an price of zero dollars, with the owner instructed to live as generously as possible until passing on the work for the fixed price.[19] Chu was a recipient of the MH Carnegie NFT Fellowship, through which he exhibited his crime theory collectibles Crypto Crimz at the Sydney Contemporary Art Fair. [20]
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". The New York Times.
- ^ "Mark Chu Archives » fortyfivedownstairs".
- ^ "Mark Chu's SKIN". Broadsheet.
- ^ "Totem by Mark Chu – Q Bank Gallery".
- ^ Guilbeault, Douglas; Nadler, Ethan O.; Chu, Mark; Lo Sardo, Donald Ruggiero; Kar, Aabir Abubaker; Desikan, Bhargav Srinivasa (August 2020). "Color associations in abstract semantic domains". Cognition. 201: 104306. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104306. PMID 32504912. S2CID 219528972.
- ^ Srinivasa Desikan, Bhargav; Hull, Tasker; Nadler, Ethan; Guilbeault, Douglas; Abubakar Kar, Aabir; Chu, Mark; Lo Sardo, Donald Ruggiero (2020). "comp-syn: Perceptually Grounded Word Embeddings with Color". Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: 1744–1751. arXiv:2010.04292. doi:10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.154. S2CID 222272026.
- ^ Chu, Mark; Lo Sardo, Donald Ruggiero; Guilbeault, Douglas (2021). "Millenia as Moment: A Triptych in 75 Colorgrams by Comp-syn". Creativity and Cognition. pp. 1–4. doi:10.1145/3450741.3466848. ISBN 978-1-4503-8376-9. S2CID 235474316.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Interview with Mark Chu". October 3, 2021.
- ^ "More than a token effort: where art and crypto worlds collide". November 5, 2021.
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