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TITLES partners with Somerset House Studios to present a two-day programme offering insight into the affordances of custom, artist-led AI models. Featuring works by Claudia Maté, Nigel Matambo and Somerset House Studios artists Ed Fornieles, Louis Morlæ,and Zein Majali.

Spaces for the workshop on Friday 31st July are limited.

Dates31 July & 1 Aug 2026
Timesfrom 2pm
SpaceLancaster Rooms & River Rooms, New Wing
PriceFree

A two-day programme considering what it means to be an artist in dialogue with generative AI, and its implications for the creative process, authorship, and ownership.

The Friday workshop will guide participants through the use of agents in the creative process, spaces limited. Book a workshop space here.

The Saturday showcase will debut the commissioned models from the five artists, accompanied by artist talks, model demonstrations, and opportunities to interact with the works directly.

Curated by Günseli Yalcinkaya in collaboration with Linda Rocco, Curator (Art and Technology), Somerset House Studios.

Schedule

Workshop: Friday 31 July 2026.

14.00 -17.00

A structured workshop led by TITLES and participating artists, exploring how creative agents can be used as collaborators in image and video production. Participants will set up an agent on their own computer, connect it to TITLES, and build agent-led workflows for generating new work using TITLES' artist-trained models network. The session will include practical setup, guided experimentation, and discussion around how artists are using agents today. Selected participant outputs will be shared at the following day’s showcase. Laptop required.

Showcase: Saturday 1 August 2026

The event will explore what it means to be an artist in dialogue with generative AI, and its implications for the creative process, authorship, and ownership. Alongside the programme, the event will provide an opportunity to interact with each artists’ models and offer guidance for those interested in developing their own.

14.00-14.15 | Opening orientation | TITLES and Günseli Yalcinkaya

14.15-14.30 | Process Lab | Derrick Schultz

14.30-15.10 | Artist showcase | Claudia Maté, Ed Fornieles, Louis Morlæ, Nigel Matambo, and Zein Majali in conversation with Günseli Yalcinkaya

15.10-15.15 | Studio Access Drop | TITLES

15.15-16.15 | Community social and workstation session

Biographies

TITLES

TITLES builds creative tools powered by artist-owned AI models. We empower artists to define, share, and monetize their artistic perspective through AI. With our tools, artists can easily create and share their custom AI models, where they retain attribution, and make money when they’re used by others. TITLES is used by notable artists such as Mad Dog Jones, Emily Xie, and many others.

Claudia Mate

Claudia Maté was born in Spain in 1985 and now lives and works in London. Her works encompass a variety of mediums including programming, 3D, video, animated GIFs and sound. She seeks to blend the familiar with the strange, the futuristic with the retro, forging a surreal universe of her own creation.

Ed Fornieles

Ed Fornieles’ work moves across film, social media, sculpture, installation and performance to express the interaction of family, relationships, popular memes, language and the subcultures of the 21st century. His practice operates within immersive simulations, which construct and enact alternative political and social spaces. His projects often involve cultural, social, and infrastructural production.

Louis Morlæ

Louis Morlæ’s multimedia world-building practice spans sculpture, video, installation and robotics, exploring the intersection of digital technology, industrial design and character-driven narrative. Morlæ’s work evokes a surreal, science-fictional landscape populated with an array of android-like figures, game-engine animations and futuristic mechanical infrastructure. Using contemporary techniques of computer-aided design, 3D printing and algorithmic processing, his work touches on the metaverse, industrial automation and artificial intelligence, depicting humanity’s accelerating relationship to the digital with tactility, escapism, and humour, oscillating between visions of progress and upheaval, utopia and dystopia.

Nigel Matambo

Nigel Matambo (SUNUNGURO) is an award winning designer, technologist, and strategist working at the frontier of artificial intelligence, spatial computing, and generative systems. His practice explores how emerging technologies can reshape narrative, identity, and interface. Building towards more intuitive, ambient, and intelligent futures. With a background in AR/VR, and creative innovation, he has led immersive technology across LVMH, developed augmented experiences for Louis Vuitton and partnered with Meta, Snapchat and Apple. His work fuses system-level design with cultural depth; creating experiences that are not only functional but responsive.

Zein Majali

Zein Majali is a sound and visual artist whose work explores the collision of technology with a rapidly evolving political landscape, with an interest in a post-colonial and globalised Middle East. Her work examines sense-making in the wake of narrative collapse, brought on by the disorienting effects of digital life. Her recent audio visual performance work has been presented at the V&A, Somerset House, and the ICA.

Günseli Yalcinkaya

Günseli Yalcinkaya is an editor, writer and researcher based in London. Her ongoing practice of internet folklore explores online culture, advanced technologies, and the myths embedded within those systems. She is a Contributing Editor at Dazed Media and the former host of Dazed’s official podcast Logged On, shining a youth culture lens on internet culture.

As a creative consultant, she translates culturally resonant content into commercial strategy, working on cultural insights for forward-thinking brands.

As an expert voice, she has appeared in talks, presentations and panels at the Architectural Association, LAS Art Foundation, Sónar+D, Somerset House, The Serpentine, Ibraaz, The Photographer’s Gallery, Unsound Festival, and X Museum. Her research on quantum culture was presented as part of LAS Art Foundation’s S+T+ARTS Prize-winning Sensing Quantum programme (2025).

In 2023, Günseli curated Cybernetic Serendipities: Towards AI at ICA in London. She is associate curator of the forthcoming major exhibition at Somerset House, titled Abracadabra!, opening to the public in 2027.

She was previously Features Editor at Dazed Magazine (2021–2024) and External Research Associate at Moth Quantum (2024–2025). She is an Associate Lecturer at London College of Fashion.

As an artist, she has worked on a number of high-profile commissions for CIVA Festival (Vienna) and Foam Gallery (Amsterdam). She is a member of the 2024–2025 cohort of artists commissioned by TIMES, alongside Andrea Belosi, James K and Heith.

Linda Rocco

Linda Rocco is a London-based curator, writer, and researcher. She is Tutor (Research) in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art and Curator (Arts & Technology) at Somerset House Studios, where she leads n-Space, a fellowship and experimental research network working across emerging sociotechnical systems, in partnership with UAL’s Creative Computing Institute, Goldsmiths Computing, and Abandon Normal Devices.

With over ten years of freelance experience, Linda has curated exhibitions, programmes, and residencies internationally with established institutions including the Yinka Shonibare Foundation, Goethe-Institut London, Delfina Foundation, Ministry of Culture Taiwan, Brooklyn NARS Foundation, Bagri Foundation, Genesis Foundation, and Jatiwangi Art Factory. She has also curated public realm projects, including a major public commission by Yinka Shonibare CBE for Liberty 2022, and a 20-year accessible digital collection for the Mayor of London.

Her practice-based research positions curatorial practice as a site of infrastructural experimentation, pursuing transdisciplinary inquiries into emerging technologies, networked forms of organisation, and collaborative models. Taking a systems-oriented approach, she examines how AI, quantum computing, and decentralised technologies reconfigure economic, social, and institutional paradigms across arts infrastructures and society more broadly. Through public programming, cross-sector projects, writing, and exhibitions, she develops critical approaches that expand participation in public discourse and extend curatorial practice into civic contexts.

Linda holds an AHRC-funded practice-based PhD. She regularly writes and works as curator for artists, galleries, and organisations while also consulting and evaluating projects for charities, foundations, public authorities, and institutions on accessible, socially engaged and art/tech projects. Additionally, she gives talks, delivers lectures, and mentors artists and organisations seeking to expand their work towards viable new configurations. She is part of XORG, a member of AICA UK International Association of Art Critics, and an Advance HE Fellow.