London · 2026

Between
stories and
machines.

I pay attention to how things are made — paintings, systems, ideas, machines. Right now that attention is pointed at AI and what it means for the physical world.

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About

Tia. Based in London. I pay attention to how things are made — paintings, systems, ideas, machines.

Right now that attention is pointed at AI and robotics. I'm not an engineer, but I'm a careful observer, and I think that's its own kind of useful.

Founder of Nexart. Previously in education and consulting.
Location
London, UK
Languages
Chinese · English
Interests
AI · Robotics · Film · Art
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Visual

Museum floors, painting details, things that stopped me.

I photograph paintings up close — not to document them, but because the texture of oil paint two inches from your face is a different image than what the artist intended. Click to view.

Millais Ophelia
Ophelia
Millais · Tate Britain
Monet Water Lilies
Water Lilies
Monet · National Gallery
Renoir Umbrellas
The Umbrellas
Renoir · National Gallery
Seurat Bathers
Bathers at Asnières
Seurat · National Gallery
Refik Anadol
Machine Hallucinations
Refik Anadol
Portrait
Portrait
Museum visit
Van Gogh, The Bedroom, 1888
Interactive · 3D
Walk into Paintings
Famous paintings rebuilt as rooms you can walk through — on desktop or phone. First room: Van Gogh's Bedroom in Arles.
走进名画 · 第一幅:梵高《阿尔勒的卧室》
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AI & Robotics

What I'm paying attention to.

I'm not an engineer. But I watch closely — following the people building things, reading what I can, trying to understand what's actually changing rather than what's being announced.

Directions
Embodied AI
Robots that operate in the real world. The gap between language and physical grounding is where the hard problems live — and where I think the most interesting things will happen.
AI agent identity
As agents become more capable, how they represent themselves — and how we verify that — becomes urgent. This is connected to what I'm building with Nexart.
Foundation models for robotics
A single model controlling many different robots — generalizing across hardware the way language models generalize across tasks. Following Physical Intelligence, Figure, NVIDIA.
People I follow
Jim Fan
Senior research scientist at NVIDIA. Working on foundation models for robotics — generalization that would make a robot as flexible as a language model.
Andrej Karpathy
Makes the inside of AI systems legible to people who weren't trained as ML engineers. The way he explains things is rare.
On X
Tracking researchers, founders, and observers across embodied AI, agent systems, and where art meets machine intelligence.
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Nexart

A project I started. Still in motion.

Nexart started with a simple frustration: the infrastructure connecting artists to collectors — especially women artists in places where opportunity is scarce — was broken or absent. The original idea was to use NFTs as a bridge: provable ownership, global access.

The NFT market moved in ways that made that harder. But while watching the space closely, I noticed something else. As AI agents become more capable, the question of identity becomes critical — how does an agent prove it is who it says it is? How do you give an AI a verifiable, unique identity that persists?

NFTs are actually well-suited to this. So Nexart evolved. I drafted a patent around AI agent identity and filed it in the UK. It's pending. The original mission is still there — the infrastructure question is just unsolved.

Type
Solo founder
Original mission
Women artists × collectors × NFT infrastructure
Current focus
AI agent identity — provable, unique, persistent
IP
UK patent pending
Status
Active · early stage
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Film

Films I return to.

The films I keep coming back to share something: they make you believe in a reality with different rules — not by explaining it, but by committing to it completely.

Interstellar
Nolan · 2014
Love as a force that crosses dimensions — not metaphor, but physics. The tesseract treats emotion and space-time as the same kind of thing. I find that genuinely moving.
Sci-fi
Inception
Nolan · 2010
Consciousness constructs reality. A dream is real if the rules are consistent enough. I think about this more now — an AI's world is also a constructed one.
Thriller
The Lord of the Rings
Jackson · 2001–03
Purity of heart against overwhelming power. Everything in Middle-earth has weight and history — the world feels real because it was built with that kind of care.
Epic
Spirited Away
Miyazaki · 2001
A child enters a world with completely different rules and survives by staying true to herself. The best films don't explain their logic — they make you believe it within minutes.
Animation
Rick and Morty
Harmon & Roiland · 2013–
Rewatched more times than I can count. A genius who has seen every possible universe and still chooses to come home — I can't fully explain why that gets me, but it does.
Animation
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Now

Last updated · July 2026

Nexart
UK patent pending. Watching the space, thinking about next steps. The problem hasn't gone away — the timing is the question.
Following
Embodied AI, robotics, agent systems. Tracking what's being built at Physical Intelligence, Figure, NVIDIA. Reading more than I'm publishing.
Watching
Always have something queued.