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Chris
Tegho



I am a multidisciplinary artist from Lebanon.  

I work with movement, contact, contemporary dance, and material, and I am interested in raw emotion and play. I use play to connect, experiment and expand our perspectives. My practice is driven by questions of queer belonging and a need to build ecosystems that hold multiplicity and difference. I also work with technology and explore how it shapes identity and perception.
 
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.  


art residencies


Halaqat (2026), Beirut, Lebanon

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 


current and in-progress


Maalib Qadima


artwork and commissions

 
Belly of the Beast (2026) with Disruptive Nostalgia— exhibited at Transient Landscapes at Spreepark Art Space (Berlin)

Moving Differently (2025) — AEP Final Event, Rupert, Vilnius

How We Play: Practices of Care and Collective Making (2025) — IMPACT25, Pact Zolverein 

When T-Rex Dreams of Mangoes and Figs with Jazmin Morris (2024) — commissioned by Mediale, and exhibited with Videocity UK at Tyneside Cinema (Newcastle), with Forum Sudutpandang at Kongsi 8 (Jakarta) and Marlah! Hub (Palu), at Modal Gallery (SODA, Manchester), Mozilla Festival 2025 (Barcelona), Peckham Digital (London), Imagined Worlds at Lewisham Library (London), and Adventures in Consciousness (University of Oxford)

Infrastructures of AI (2025) — accepted for presentation at the Connective (t)Issues Workshop, with Data & Society and The Politics of AI: Governance, Resistance, Alternatives with Sustainable AI Futures (Goldsmith University)

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

other work


Strange Kinships — virtual installation with 3D animation

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


publications


  1. Lee, Angela Ka Ki, and Chris Tegho. “Spatial Choreography of Grounded Computation.” un Magazine, no. 20.1, Stones & Circuits: Art, AI, and the More-Than-Human Commons, 2026.

  2. 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

  3. 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).

  4. 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).



Chris Tegho —
Mark

Profundior with Zach Blas



Photo Credits: Zach Blas 
   
Commissioned by Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, exhibited at Hamburger Bahnhof


Profundior is an immersive multimedia installation that envisions an AI system as a deity consuming human emotional data. Responding to the quasi-religious veneration of AI in Silicon Valley, it presents an "AI god" in the form of a black box network that ritualistically ingests simulated human tears. Through this speculative work, Profundior interrogates the ethical implications and extractive data practices underlying AI's rapidly advancing emotional intelligence capabilities.
In this work, I trained diffusion models on images of tears to generate videos for the installation. My work also involved training language models to generate text for the installation.

Video Credit: Chris Tegho
Low resolution protype video generated from a diffusion model for Profundior. Final videos only available through the installation.
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