Chris
Tegho



I am a multidisciplinary artist, and machine learning engineer from Lebanon and the UK.  

My work moves across movement, code, 3D modeling, and material, grounded in an ongoing interest in raw emotion and play. I explores how technology shapes identity and perception, and use play as a method for connection, experimentation, and expanding perspectives. My practice is driven by questions of queer belonging and the need to build ecosystems that hold multiplicity and difference.
 
I have collaborated on immersive installations with numerous artists, Jazmin Morris on TRex Dreams of Mangoes and Figs, exploring technological access, waiting in digital spaces, and consciousness; and Zach Blas on installations such as Cultus (Arebyte, Secession), Profundior (Berlin Biennale), and The Doors (Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, De Young Museum, Van Abbemuseum). These works examine consciousness expansion, human/machine relations, and AI religiosity, interrogating the extractive data practices underlying AI's rapidly advancing emotional intelligence.


I am co-founder of Disruptive Nostalgia, a collective which sets out to reimagine and challenge the narratives of architecture, landscape, and cultural memory informed by intersectional politics. The collective is currently resident at Spreepark in Berlin where they explore how memory, color, and play shape our understanding of place and connection to each other and nature.  


I completed a Master's in Machine Learning at the University of Cambridge in August 2017.


art residencies


Rupert Alternative Education Program (2025), Vilnius, Lithuania

Spreepark International Art Residency (2025), Berlin, Germany

Loop Art Critique 17th Edition (2025), Online

Immersive Assembly Volume 4 (2024), Dreams and Echoes, Mediale, Oxford and York, UK 


work in progress and experiments


Infrastructures of AI (2025) — research and visual essay exploring Big Tech’s AI dominance through improvised Global South infrastructures, accepted for presentation at the Connective (t)Issues Workshop, with Data & Society

Scattered Minds — short film / coded animation exploring multiplicity of the mind

How Do I Dance? / Where Do I Go? (2025) — new media art installation with animated archeological relics, part of the Onland Loop Art Critique 17th Public Activation

Ecological Dialogues — ongoing research, workshop and collective choreography on movement, play and technology



artwork and commissions

 
When T-Rex Dreams of Mangoes and Figs with Jazmin Morris (2024) — showcase as part of the Immersive Assembly Vol. 4 and Adventures in Consciousness Season at the University of Oxford

CULTUS with Zach Blas (2023) — commissioned by Arebyte Gallery, London, UK, and Secession, Vienna, Austria

Profundior with Zach Blas (2023) — commissioned by Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, exhibited at Hamburger Bahnhof

576 Tears with Zach Blas (2022) — commissioned by UP Projects for “This is Public Space” series

Triple Chaser, with Forensic Architecture (2021)—exhibited at Uncanny Valley: Being human in the age of AI, at the de Young Museum in San Fransisco

Machines of Loving Grace, with DJ and producer Sonikku (2021) — music video for single release Lifestyle with Boilerroom TV
— audio reactive StyleGANs video generation

The Doors with Zach Blas (2020) — commissioned by Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, de Young Museum, San Fransisco, and Van Abbemuseum, Eidhoven

MELTS INTO LOVE with Xin (2020)— album cover

CAD Conspiracy: Pattern Recognition in Contemporary Art with Mahan Moalemi and Bahar Noorizadeh (2020)— commissioned by the Mosaic Rooms, London


ml research interests video language models — few shot learning — generative models — Bayesian modeling — computer vision: video understanding, video generation, object and movement detection


other interests contemporary dance — internal family systems — humanistic councelling


publications


  1. D’Cruz, A., Tegho, C., Greaves, S., & Kermode L. (2022). Detecting Tear Gas Canisters With Limited Training Data. IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV). 
    equal contribution

  2. Tegho, C., Budzianowski, P., & Gašić, M. (2018). Benchmarking Uncertainty Estimates With Deep Reinforcement Learning for Dialogue Policy Optimisation. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

  3. Tegho, C., Budzianowski, P., & Gašić, M. (2017). Uncertainty Estimates for Efficient Neural Network-based Dialogue Policy Optimisation. Accepted at the Bayesian Deep Learning Workshop, 31st Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).

machine learning work


2022 - 2024
Unitary, London, UK
— Develop and deploy multimodal machine learning models and pipelines for detecting harmful content in videos, images and text


2017 - 2022
Calipsa, London, UK
— Design, implement and evaluate models and software prototypes for object detection and motion detection in videos


Chris Tegho —

Mark

Ecological Dialogues


A movement-based workshop exploring the connection between body, environment, and imagination. Through playful tasks, improvisation, and choreography, participants engage with the world around them, using elements from their surroundings to inspire physical exploration. Together, we create movement scores and group compositions shaped by the textures, rhythms, and presence of beings in the environment. This is an invitation to listen, respond, and move in dialogue with the ecosystems and material around us and with each other.

Stills and captures from the workshop with Fred Kannemeyer and Jack Williams James



Experimenting with Hydra coding to explore how new media and coding can interact with movement and play. Integrating generative visuals with physical movement to examine how technology can reflect, distort, and enhance our understanding of the body and its connection to the environment.