Mark Chu Explained

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]

References

  1. Web site: Artists put the final touches on ARTeriors installations | Latest Headlines | pressofatlanticcity.com. 30 November 2018 .
  2. Web site: Can art save Atlantic City, this time?. Amy S.. Rosenberg.
  3. Web site: Artists transformed Jersey Shore town. See how their murals were made in 7 days.. Tim Hawk | NJ Advance Media for. NJ.com. May 26, 2019. nj.
  4. Web site: QV Melbourne Lunar New Year Celebrations. February 4, 2021.
  5. Web site: Mark Chu 储波. m.artgogo.com.
  6. News: Where Blue-Chip Brands Meet Brassy Outliers. Holland. Cotter. The New York Times. April 3, 2014.
  7. Web site: This Melbourne Artist's Latest Show Is All About Painting You and Your Mates. 31 March 2023.
  8. Web site: Mark Chu Archives » fortyfivedownstairs. 7 November 2019 .
  9. Web site: Romancing the Streetscape. 31 January 2023 .
  10. Web site: Mark Chu's SKIN. Broadsheet.
  11. Web site: 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 . Online images amplify gender bias . Nature . February 14, 2024 . 10.1038/s41586-024-07068-x . free . 10901730 .
  13. Guilbeault . Douglas . Nadler . Ethan O. . Chu . Mark . Lo Sardo . Donald Ruggiero . Kar . Aabir Abubaker . Desikan . Bhargav Srinivasa . Color associations in abstract semantic domains . Cognition . August 2020 . 201 . 104306 . 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104306 . 32504912 . 219528972 . free .
  14. Book: Srinivasa Desikan . Bhargav . Hull . Tasker . Nadler . Ethan . Guilbeault . Douglas . Abubakar Kar . Aabir . Chu . Mark . Lo Sardo . Donald Ruggiero . Comp-syn: Perceptually Grounded Word Embeddings with Color . Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics . 2020 . 1744–1751 . 10.18653/v1/2020.coling-main.154 . 2010.04292 . 222272026 .
  15. Book: 10.1145/3450741.3466848 . Millenia as Moment: A Triptych in 75 Colorgrams by Comp-syn . Creativity and Cognition . 2021 . Chu . Mark . Lo Sardo . Donald Ruggiero . Guilbeault . Douglas . 1–4 . 978-1-4503-8376-9 . 235474316 .
  16. Signal in Noise: Exploring Meaning Encoded in Random Character Sequences with Character-Aware Language Models. April 20, 2022. 2203.07911 . Chu . Mark . Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan . Nadler . Ethan O. . Ruggiero Lo Sardo . D. . Darragh-Ford . Elise . Guilbeault . Douglas . cs.CL .
  17. Web site: Mark Chu Santa Fe Institute. 2021-06-19. www.santafe.edu. en.
  18. Web site: Chromatic Identities - Appetite. appetitesg.com.
  19. Web site: The semifinalists of the STARTS Prize for Social Good. May 17, 2021. Nesta Italia.
  20. Web site: Aesthetics for Civilization via Food and Art. www.europenowjournal.org.
  21. Web site: Fiction, Faces and Fine Art - Writer and Artist Mark Chu. February 13, 2018.
  22. Web site: Interdisciplinary Design Challenge Targets Opioid Crisis. February 6, 2018. Columbia Engineering.
  23. Web site: Interview with Mark Chu. October 3, 2021.
  24. Web site: More than a token effort: where art and crypto worlds collide. Ticky. Fullerton. The Australian. November 5, 2021.
  25. Web site: The Lester PRize.
  26. Web site: 'Compelling and original': unanimous decision on Vogel award.

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