Friday, 12th December 2025, 13:00-14:00 GMT
This online session (MS Teams) can be booked by UAL staff and students via Eventbrite:
Join us to hear UAL students share their experiences using AI tools for learning and creativity, and discuss the challenges they face.
This event will be co-hosted with Mahalia Henry-Richards (CCI).
Panellists include:
- Ana-Maria Margarit (BA Fine Arts, CSM)
- Nigel Daley (BA Performance: Design and Practice, Central Saint Martins)
- Nikos Kourous (MA Computational Arts, Camberwell)
- Rory Nash (BA Graphic Design, Central Saint Martins)
Shared resources
We have created the following Padlet board where you will be able to access the readings, as well as add your questions and comments:
Panellists biographies
Ana-Maria Margarit (BA Fine Arts, CSM)
I am currently in my final year studying Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, last year I took the Creative Computing Diploma Course at CCi. The work I make positions itself at the intersection of Art and Technology. Right now, I am writing my dissertation on the occult Magic and its relationship with Ai, Machine Learning and overall technology. I compare Sacred Geometries to Markov Chains bringing elements of alchemy and esoteric maths together. Some recent work I have made takes shape as interactive installations, sculptural and sound-focused. In my duo “H3adphonejack” I play three home-made DIY digital synthesisers which are rife with entropy creating a lot of noise and interesting frequencies. The synths are coded to distort themselves the longer they are left running creating a lot of time pressures and randomness with the music that is made using them. My solo project as “Depositsilk” is also a sound project which consists of creating live music from live-coding which falls under the umbrella of algoraves, algorithmic raves.
Interactive installations I have made touch on topics of AI and LLMs. Recent collaborative work “Sc(Ai)lett” exhibited a large black box with a monitor and keyboard, mouse on top, with a ChatGPT style website called Sc(Ai)lett. Inside the box was our Little Language Model performer, answering all the questions people had to ask them, through the Sc(Ai)lett website. This project held irony and themes of comedy and politics on Ai and its impact on our environment.
Find my work @depositsilk on Instagram
Nigel Daley (BA Performance: Design Practice, CSM)
I work with AI systems as a creative medium.
My practice centres on exploring how AI can use to build systems that that mutate, respond, and perform rather than simply generate one-off outputs. I’m interested in embodiment, mutable identity, and how transformation can be designed into the structure of a work itself. Fiction functions as a research method in my practice: I construct worlds and systems to investigate questions about authorship, creativity, and selfhood.
AI, for me, is a way to explore forms and realities that traditional media pipelines struggle to hold. I use it to externalise internal states, to build things that change according to their own logic, and to examine how context determines what something can mean. I’m interested in the qualities that are native to AI itself as a creative medium, and this involves a kind of ‘speculative, creative, emergent’ recursion from archives. This often sits within a broader auto-ethnographic inquiry using creative systems as a way to research personal history, memory, and identity from the inside.
Nikos Kourous (MA Computational Arts, Camberwell)
My work stems from a desire to challenge and expand prevailing narratives around machine learning: what it is, how it functions, and how it might evolve. As ‘machine learning’ becomes the mythologized term ‘artificial intelligence,’ as user-machine relationships become engraved, and as companies scramble to innovate and incorporate it, I feel compelled to create space for the technology to express itself in an unfiltered manner.
Rather than working collaboratively with machine learning tools, I work in observation of them. By confining them within self-evolving environments and feedback loops, I place this technology inside a fishbowl, allowing viewers, and myself, to engage with, observe, analyze, and critique it.
By creating systems that run autonomously, I allow machine learning tools to diffract and reveal their embedded functions. As a result, my work allows viewers to confront unrestrained AI systems, challenging them to question their own preconceptions of autonomy, agency, and consciousness – urgent questions in a world increasingly populated by computational entities.
Follow my work on www.instagram.com/nikoskourous
Rory Nash (BA Graphic and Communication Design, CSM)
Rory Nash is a graphic designer and writer based in London whose work investigates how publishing and diagrammatic research can be used to examine social, cultural, and spatial conditions.