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Talks & Workshops
I give talks and run hands-on workshops on AI, surveillance, deepfakes, and creative technology for festivals, universities, museums, and conferences. I also take on bespoke commissions.
All talks and workshops can be adapted to your audience, from beginner to advanced. Every talk includes an optional hands-on workshop component. Previous hosts include IMPAKT Festival, University of Arts London, HKU, ArtEZ, Piet Zwart Institute, and iii: Instrument Inventors Initiative.
For Artists
Introduction to AI for Artists
- Practical introduction to AI for creative practitioners, no coding experience required
- Working with text-to-image generation, GANs, and large language models as creative tools
- The politics of training data: where it comes from, who profits, and who is harmed
- Questions of authorship, ownership, and copyright in AI-generated work
- Environmental cost of large models
- How artists can critically engage with AI rather than passively consume it
Previously at: HKU (NL), ArtEZ University of the Arts (NL), Piet Zwart Institute (NL), iii: Instrument Inventors Initiative (NL)
Generative AI & Creative Coding for Artists
- Hands-on workshop building generative artworks using AI and code
- Text-to-image, text-to-video, text-to-audio, and image-to-image generation
- Prompt engineering as a creative practice
- Fine-tuning models on custom datasets and algorithmic art with Processing
- How generative tools challenge traditional notions of artistic intent
- Cultural implications of models trained on scraped data
- Governance questions around who controls these systems and who profits from them
Previously at: HKU (NL), iii: Instrument Inventors Initiative (NL)
Introduction to Computer-Vision Surveillance for Artists
- How surveillance cameras see: facial recognition, object detection, gait analysis, emotion recognition
- How these technologies are deployed in public spaces
- Racial and gender biases embedded in training datasets
- Governance frameworks (or lack thereof) that regulate their use
- How artists and activists are subverting surveillance through adversarial fashion, CV dazzle, and counter-forensics
Previously at: HKU (NL)
Deepfakes
Deepfakes: Technology, Culture & Ethics
- How deepfakes work under the hood: GANs, diffusion models, encoder-decoder architectures
- Face-swap technology, voice cloning, and AI-generated video
- Cultural impact on identity, trust, and media literacy
- The governance vacuum around non-consensual synthetic media
- Emerging detection methods and their limitations
- Live deepfake demonstration where participants see their own face transformed in real time
Previously at: IMPAKT Festival (NL), Peckham Digital (UK), University of Arts London (UK)
How to Build Your Digital Clone
- Participants create their own digital clone combining face-swap, voice cloning, and AI-generated text
- The technical pipeline behind digital doubles
- Cultural shift toward synthetic personas in media and marketing
- Ethics of consent and likeness rights
- Governance questions around digital identity ownership
- Participants leave with their own working clone prototype
Related project: Do You Want To Be Me?
Necromemetics: Can Memes Dilute History?
- How the dead become memes: from Charlie Kirk to Harambe to MLK
- The lifecycle of posthumous memeification: stripped of context, flattened into punchlines
- How generative AI accelerates this process with fake quotes, deepfake videos, and AI-generated "interviews"
- What happens to collective memory when history becomes remix material
- Cultural mechanics of meme propagation
- Ethics of using the dead as content and the governance vacuum around posthumous digital likeness
Previously at: HKU (NL)
Ethics & Design
Deepfakes: Technology, Culture & Ethics
- How deepfakes work under the hood: GANs, diffusion models, encoder-decoder architectures
- Face-swap technology, voice cloning, and AI-generated video
- Cultural impact on identity, trust, and media literacy
- The governance vacuum around non-consensual synthetic media
- Emerging detection methods and their limitations
- Live deepfake demonstration where participants see their own face transformed in real time
Previously at: IMPAKT Festival (NL), Peckham Digital (UK), University of Arts London (UK)
Algorithmic Violence & Predictive Policing
- How automated decision-making systems produce and reproduce structural violence
- Predictive policing algorithms that reinforce racial profiling
- Risk assessment tools in criminal justice, welfare, and immigration
- Data pipelines, feedback loops, and institutional incentives that make algorithmic harm systemic
- Drawing on my work with Future Wake (Mozilla Creative Media Award 2021)
- EU AI Act governance, accountability gaps, and what meaningful oversight could look like
Previously at: Cross Pollination Podcast, Het Hem (NL), Fast Company, Coda Story
AI, Accessibility & Inclusive Design
- Drawing on my work with Screen-to-Soundscape (supported by Stimuleringsfonds, the Processing Foundation, and Constant)
- How AI can make or break accessibility
- Computer vision for generating rich alt-text
- Spatial audio as a navigation tool for blind users
- Governance questions around who gets to define "accessible"
- Centering disabled perspectives in AI design from the start
Supported by: Stimuleringsfonds, Processing Foundation, Constant Foundation
Bespoke Work
Looking for something specific? I design custom workshops, installations, and creative-tech experiences tailored to your context.
Custom Workshops
- Tailored workshops for your team, students, or community
- Combining technical AI skills with critical perspectives on ethics, governance, and culture
- Past custom work includes multi-day intensives for art schools and one-off sessions for cultural institutions
Installations & Commissions
- Interactive installations, video works, and creative-tech pieces for exhibitions, festivals, and public spaces
- From real-time deepfake mirrors to data-driven storytelling
- Building experiences that make invisible systems tangible
Keynotes & Panels
- Available for keynote talks, panel discussions, podcasts, and media appearances
- Topics: AI ethics, algorithmic violence, digital identity, surveillance technology, and the intersection of art and AI
Get in Touch
Interested in booking a talk, workshop, or commissioning bespoke work? Email me and I'll get back to you.
Email
artificialnouveau [at] gmail [dot] com
Useful things to include
- What you have in mind: a talk, a workshop, an installation or commission, a keynote, panel or podcast
- Who you are: organisation, audience, and roughly how many people
- When and where: dates, location, in person or online
- Budget, if you have one