Chris Tegho is a creative technologist, and machine learning engineer from Lebanon and the UK.
They experiment with and integrate computer vision, new technologies, movement, coding, 3D modeling and materials to embrace emotional plurality, more-than-human perspectives, and ethical dimensions of technology.
Chris’ work explores multiplicity, how we connect with ourselves, our inner complexity, questions of belonging, and the ecological systems we are part of through technology, movement and play.
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
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
The Doors with Zach Blas (2020) — commissioned by Edith-Russ-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldenburg, de Young Museum, San Fransisco, and Van Abbemuseum, Eidhoven
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
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).
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 —
Scattered Minds
Coded animation and algorithmic sound generation to create a short film that explores the multiplicity of the mind and the fluidity of internal experiences.
Using expressive and minimal line work and the dynamic use of color, the work layers simple hand-drawn elements with evolving soundscapes to illustrate how cognitive states emerge, overlap, and dissolve into one another.
Grounded in the framework of Internal Family Systems, the film visualizes the mind as a constellation of interacting parts, shifting in response to internal and external influences. The work uses technology to simulate these mental states, and challenges understanding of identity and selfhood, proposing a model of being that is fluid, relational, and evolving.
This film questions categorical identities and envisions alternative, more flexible ways of understanding the self. Technology plays a key role in this process, as a tool and as a way of thinking about identity itself. Through coding, animation and sound, the project explores how different aspects of the mind interact, adapt, and evolve and invites viewers to reflect on the ways in which identity is constructed, negotiated, and transformed, both within us and in relation to others. The film explores the potential of art and technology to generate new ways of imagining and inhabiting multiplicity.
Video And Image Credits: Chris Tegho
Note on sound: I am currently exploring generating sound for the film with tidalcyles and tone.js. Sound will be available early March.
