Spotlight Series: Artist Talks x HQI

The spotlight series: Get to know your White City Place neighbours and the exciting things they’re working on

Curated by HQI to celebrate current and past artists in residence who've come through White City Place. Each talk is moderated by one of our resident artists, with a guest of their choosing for a conversation shaped by shared practice.

Talk on Thursday 29 October: 'The Model is the Message'

A talk by Marcel Top and Tessa Edwards on creativity and exploration in Machine Learning and AI as both the instrument and subject of societal critique and reflective self-evaluation.

About the Artists

Tessa Edwards is a Central Saint Martins graduate and creative technologist who moved from fashion into filmmaking and spatial computing before turning to machine learning. Her recent work spans deepfake analysis, psychoacoustics, and the use of steganography and hidden signals to explore perception, concealment, and the ways intelligent systems operate in dimensions beyond human reach.

Marcel Top is a visual artist working between Belgium and London. Top researches the topics of mass surveillance, privacy, data collection. In his practice, he layers a traditional approach to documentary research with a more experimental use of new technologies (such as facial recognition, movement analysis, and deepfakes).

Refreshments

Drinks and snacks available

Timings

Doors open 17:30, talk starts at 18:00, ends 19:00