NextAI London #1: AI Metamorphosis
We’re back! First event of 2025. Theme: AI Metamorphosis – the fringe, the curious, the edge of AI, tech, and art.
No pitches. Just passionate projects, messy experiments, and glimpses of what’s next. We cook. We fail. We laugh. We ask questions. We create. Real events. Real people. No hype.
Doors 5:45 PM, starts 6:00 PM, done by 8:00 PM
Come join us. You won’t be disappointed.
We’re excited to kick off with our first talk by emerging artists Viola Liang and May Li, diving into their work on AI intimacy. Missed their showcase at Tate Modern? You’ll still catch a glimpse of it at the AI Gallery. And that’s just the start – our stacked lineup of three speakers is built to inspire, spark imagination, and bring you perspectives from the cutting edge and beyond.
After the event, join us at the Afterparty at Q SHOREDITCH, just around the corner. We’ve curated an AI Gallery featuring local and international artists – a great chance to meet the creators and connect with fellow AI enthusiasts.
# Agenda:
17:45 Doors open
18:00 Introduction, guest talks followed by a panel
20:00 Event closes
20:05 Afterparty at Q SHOREDITCH, featuring the AI Gallery and networking opportunities
# Talks:
AI x Uncanny Intimacy by Viola Liang & May Li
Resident artists at Tate London, Viola and May explore the complex relationship between humans and AI through co-created speculative fiction and interactive storytelling. Their work challenges ideas of intimacy in an age of generative technology. In this talk, they share insights from their practice and invite reflection on how emotion and technology shape the future of art.
Metamorphic Luthiery by Atay Ilgun
Since 2016, Atay Ilgun has explored how systems molt, tools become interlocutors, and instruments take on life. His work stages metamorphic feedback loops—objects that seed lore, trigger hallucinatory recursion, and support machinic world-building—tracing AI and on-chain systems as cocoon-like infrastructures that reshape authorship and favour art as transformation. AI as partner. Blockchain as cocoon. Art as transformation.
MCP-Powered Voice-First Agentic AI by Gerard Sans
Gerard, founder of Axiom and Google Developer Expert in AI, will take you beyond basic chatbot interactions. In this talk, he will demonstrate how AI agents can drive real-world automation, including running an entire robot cafe using only voice and the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This session is a condensed version of his recent opening keynote at the MCP Dev Summit Europe.
# Sponsors and collaborators
Many thanks to IDEALondon for hosting us and Q SHOREDITCH for bringing you the best entertainment.
# About IDEALondon
This event is hosted in partnership with IDEALondon, a UCL Engineering workspace open to all for early teams and operators in science and tech, run in partnership with WilbeLAB.
Learn more about IDEALondon's community, event space, and memberships.
Sounds good? We can’t wait to see you!
NextAI London Team