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Chris
Tegho



Chris Tegho (they/he) is a creative technologist, and machine learning engineer from Lebanon and the UK.

They work at the intersections of movement, coding, 3D modeling, and material, exploring themes of play, multiplicity, and questions of belonging. Chris’ work also examines how technology shapes our perception of self.
 
They 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.


Chris is 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.


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

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 

art residencies


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 — ongoing 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

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

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

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


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


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Profundior with Zach Blas
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“Profuse strains of unpremeditated art.”
(Shelley)
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Here the sculptor has made no concessions; no attempts to curry favor with curators or collectors — pieces wholly outside discourse. And if pressed for an affiliate movement for these “sculptures” (i.e. Cubism, Mannerism, etc.)… perhaps Monism or Cosmogonism? Definitely not Conceptualism or Pataphysics — Actualism?

The analog? Well for sure it is 1:1. Weird; yes — a knot to be admired for it’s curves — not for untying. An emergent surface as thick as it’s mass. 
 
Were it possible for the instances of our minds or world events to be mapped and dimensionally materialized, something similar to a rock would appear — areas of smoothness yielding to pockmarked particularities, density shifts and feathered explosions. What really is the shape of a boom town? A pilgrim’s journey? A section of jungle mayhem? A boring era? The silhouette of a father’s cold slap? The contours of a brief, intense friendship? Comfortably we perceive all of these things as ready to be integrated into ledgers or novels or timelines; but really they are queer crags and striations of unimaginable idiosyncrasy.

So yes, the reflective, reasonable yield of our mind has much symmetry (computation, cataloguing, narrativizing, etc.) but it’s actual shape is no shape, but unfolding chaos and singularity visible only to our particular time-scale. Our species-wide symmetries and quantizations are basically improvisations white-labeled onto directionless infinitude attempting the constant creation of navigable Dimension.

So, look intimately at a rock, walk around it, get up close to it, savor it’s complexion and composition as you would any painting or temple and see it as the faultless mirror that it is — a truly perfect sculpture.


ABSTRACTION AND EMPIRICAL ILLUSTRATION
We live our lives made up of a great quantity of isolated instants. So as to be lost at the heart of a multitude of things. (From the Double Dream of Spring, 1970.)




  1. Gavrilo Princip’s last grocery list written
  2. The time that alligator ate that fish
  3. When the Yongzheng Emperor found that weird dust bunny under his throne
  4. The great earthquake of Alexandria
  1. The invention of expectation in literature
  2. When the heaviest cacao fruit fell in Takalik Abaj
  3. Animesh eats his first Fly Agaric mushroom