做媒 Protocol – How to Grow a Reply Guy Lecture and Bot Demo with Jenn Leung

做媒 Protocol is a lecture mixed bot building demonstration by Jenn Leung. The lecture traces the historical logic of 做媒 (matchmaker in Cantonese) in marriage traditions, diplomacy, and market manipulation, in relation to the phenology of bots. The demonstration will follow Jenn Leung in building a reply guy bot as an internet-military operational logic, where participants can watch and/or participate in growing a “reply guy” together.

About the Artist:

Jenn Leung is a lecturer, researcher, and simulation developer building game engine simulations and real-time streaming tools. Currently her research focuses on developing UE interfaces for brain organoids and agent behaviour simulation, with two papers recently published in the MIT Antikythera Journal and a forthcoming paper on UE-API for brain-on-a-chip platforms presented at NeurIPS 2025.
She is a Lecturer in Creative Technology & Design at University of the Arts London, a Researcher at Antikythera's Cognitive Infrastructures Studio in 2024, supported by the Berggruen Institute, and a Research Assistant at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, working on the 100 Minds in Motion project combining EEG, eye-tracking, and movement data in an agent simulation.
She is also a part of Off World Live, an engineering and research group for Unreal Engine creators, and previously served as a Programme Head at Architectural Association VS Unit 5 Xalon. Her work has been exhibited at Epic Games Innovation Lab, Ars Electronica, Medialab Matadero, W1 Curates, Tai Kwun Hong Kong, CIVA Festival, DAE Research Festival, PAF Olomouc, ALife Conference Kyoto, Aksioma, and Musem of Art in Public Spaces (Køge) among others, and was featured on Dazed, TANK Magazine, DIS, SHOWStudio, Art Asia Pacific, COEVAL Magazine, and AQNB.
In collaboration with Daniel Felstead, she has produced four short film commissions from DIS.art (The Metaverse In Janky Capitalism / Literally No Place/ Always On My Mind/ Jankspace) that explore the myths, ideologies and realities of the metaverse, AI, and neural media. She also collaborates with dmstfctn on simulation projects for Serpentine Arts Technologies and the Leonardo Supercomputer at Bologna’s Tecnopolo.