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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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  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. doi: 10.1038/s41586-024-07068-x .
  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.
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  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].
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  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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