Siggraph keynote: Seeing double—bridging dualities for human in the metaverse

Sougwen Chung is an artist and engineer whose exhibitions and performances have taken place in galleries and museums all over the world. At Siggraph 2022 in Vancouver, she gave the keynote speech titled Seeing Double. She began her talk saying two sets of eyes take in the same scene, the same light comes through two apertures that see two completely different things—one is biological, and one is mechanical—as a result, we’re seeing double. It’s the double view of machine vision of security cameras, satellites, robots, and social media. Chung suggested that the hybrid nature of AI systems and technology interacting