Creative AI meetup: The Return

​This event will host talks artists and researchers presenting AI technologies and their creative applications.

​Event schedule:

​18:30 Arrival

​19:00 Terence Broad, UAL Creative Computing Institute: 'Expanding the Generative Space'

​19:25 Thu Nguyen-Phuoc, Meta Reality Labs Research: 'Generative 3D: Are we there yet?'

​19:50 Yuqian Sun, AI Research Artist: 'Chatbot as Artistic Practice'

​20:15-21:00 Networking

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​More on talks and speakers:

​Terence Broad, UAL Creative Computing Institute: 'Expanding the Generative Space'

​Generative AI offers powerful tools for the generation of many kinds of creative outputs, but the way they achieve this is by imitating and deriving their value from the collective labour of many creative professionals. This talk will give an overview of Terence's PhD research which seeks to go beyond this paradigm. In this research several techniques were developed to allow generative AI to actively diverge from data. By using a hacking approach, this talk will show how it is both possible to both better understand the inner workings of these models and to expand the generative space of them beyond the imitation of existing creative works

​Terence Broad is an artist and researcher working in London. He is a Senior Lecturer at the UAL Creative Computing Institute and has recently completed a PhD at Goldsmiths in generative AI. His art and research have been presented internationally: at conferences and journals such as SIGGRAPH, Leonardo, NeurIPS, and ICCC; and museums such as The Whitney Museum of American Art, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Ars Electronica, The Barbican and The Whitechapel Gallery. In 2019 He won the Grand Prize in the ICCV Computer Vision Art Gallery and has regularly served on the Jury for SIGGRAPH. His work is in the city of Geneva’s contemporary art collection.

​Thu Nguyen-Phuoc, Meta Reality Labs Research: 'Generative 3D: Are we there yet?'

​Thu Nguyen-Phuoc is a Research Scientist at Reality Lab Research, Meta in London, UK. Her research interests include machine learning, 3D vision and computer graphics. In particular, she works on neural rendering and inverse rendering. Thu did her PhD at the Centre for Digital Entertainment, University of Bath and research internships at Adobe Research, Meta Reality Lab Research and DeepMind. Thu holds an undergraduate degree in Architecture from the University of Bath and a Master's in Computational Design and Digital Fabrication from the University of Stuttgart. 

​Yuqian Sun, AI Research Artist: 'Chatbot as Artistic Practice'

​I have been developing chatbots (now known as "AI agents") since 2018, well before the widespread attention on language models. This talk shares my artworks to inspire new perspectives on how we prompt, direct, and shape AI conversations. I will explore how these agents perform fictional personas and even generate novel forms of language expression previously unseen before.

​Yuqian (Uchan) Sun, also known as CheeseTalk, is an AI research artist based in London. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the Royal College of Art. Focusing on the power of language, Yuqian aims to create 'alive' narrative experiences that extend beyond video games and into our daily lives through conversational AI agents. She explores linguistic interactions through chatbots, games and interactive installations. Yuqian's interdisciplinary arts and research have been featured in galleries and tech conferences including SIGGRAPH, CVPR, NeurIPS, Gamescom, AMaze and New York Times Square. She won the Reddot Design Award and Lumen Prize in 2024. She is also a 2025 GDC speaker.