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Mark Bo Chu (born May 12, 1989) is an Australian artist, writer and complexity scientist. 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] focusing on human subjects, streetscapes, and audience-submitted imagery.[7][8][9] Chu's 2013 debut solo show exhibited specimens of his own dandruff[10] and in 2019 he undertook the Q Bank Gallery Residency in Queenstown, Tasmania.[11] In contributions to scientific research, Chu has co-authored papers in journals such as Nature (journal),[12] Cognition (journal),[13] the International Committee on Computational Linguistics Conference,[14] the Association for Computing Machinery's Creativity and Cognition Conference,[15] and the Association for Computational Linguistics. [16] In 2019 he graduated from the Santa Fe Institute's Complex Systems Summer School[17] where he co-founded the aesthetics research collective Comp-syn[18] who were 2021 European Commission STARTS Prize semifinalists.[19] Chu is a past restaurant reviewer for The Age Good Food Guide.[20] At thirteen years old he recorded as a piano soloist with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra[21] 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.[22] Chu's 2021 concept sculpture "The Giving Ox" was intentionally fixed at a price of zero dollars, with the owner instructed to live as generously as possible until passing on the work for the fixed price.[23] Chu was a recipient of the MH Carnegie NFT Fellowship, through which he exhibited crime theory collectibles Crypto Crimz at the Sydney Contemporary Art Fair.[24] In 2022, for a candid portrait of his partner author Nell Pierce, Chu received a Highly Commended prize for the Art Gallery of Western Australia's Lester Prize, one of Australia's richest portrait prizes.[25]

Mark Chu is the son of Chinese-Australia composer Chu Wanghua, and grandson of Chinese scholar and dissident Chu Anping. He lives in Melbourne with his partner Nell Pierce, and their daughter Mo.[26]

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  1. ^ "Artists put the final touches on ARTeriors installations | Latest Headlines | pressofatlanticcity.com". 30 November 2018.
  2. ^ Rosenberg, Amy S. (11 December 2018). "Can art save Atlantic City, this time?".
  3. ^ NJ.com, Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for (26 May 2019). "Artists transformed Jersey Shore town. See how their murals were made in 7 days". nj.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "QV Melbourne Lunar New Year Celebrations". 4 February 2021.
  5. ^ "Mark Chu 储波". m.artgogo.com.
  6. ^ Cotter, Holland (3 April 2014). "Where Blue-Chip Brands Meet Brassy Outliers". The New York Times.
  7. ^ "This Melbourne Artist's Latest Show Is All About Painting You and Your Mates". 31 March 2023.
  8. ^ "Mark Chu Archives » fortyfivedownstairs". 7 November 2019.
  9. ^ "Romancing the Streetscape". 31 January 2023.
  10. ^ "Mark Chu's SKIN". Broadsheet.
  11. ^ "Totem by Mark Chu – Q Bank Gallery". 13 October 2019.
  12. ^ Guilbeault, Douglas; Delecourt, Solène O.; Hull, Tasker; Desikan, Bhargav Srinivasa; Chu, Mark; Nadler, Ethan (14 February 2024). "Online images amplify gender bias". Nature. 626 (8001): 1049–1055. doi:10.1038/s41586-024-07068-x. PMC 10901730. PMID 38355800.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ 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. pp. 1744–1751. arXiv:2010.04292. doi:10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.154. S2CID 222272026.
  15. ^ 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.
  16. ^ Chu, Mark; Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan; Nadler, Ethan O.; Ruggiero Lo Sardo, D.; Darragh-Ford, Elise; Guilbeault, Douglas (20 April 2022). "Signal in Noise: Exploring Meaning Encoded in Random Character Sequences with Character-Aware Language Models". arXiv:2203.07911 [cs.CL].
  17. ^ "Mark Chu | Santa Fe Institute". www.santafe.edu. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
  18. ^ "Chromatic Identities - Appetite". appetitesg.com.
  19. ^ "The semifinalists of the STARTS Prize for Social Good". Nesta Italia. 17 May 2021.
  20. ^ "Aesthetics for Civilization via Food and Art". www.europenowjournal.org.
  21. ^ "Fiction, Faces and Fine Art - Writer and Artist Mark Chu". 13 February 2018.
  22. ^ "Interdisciplinary Design Challenge Targets Opioid Crisis". Columbia Engineering. 6 February 2018.
  23. ^ "Interview with Mark Chu". 3 October 2021.
  24. ^ Fullerton, Ticky (5 November 2021). "More than a token effort: where art and crypto worlds collide". The Australian.
  25. ^ "The Lester PRize".
  26. ^ "'Compelling and original': unanimous decision on Vogel award".
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