Women in AI
Eline Van Der Velden
Creator of AI Actress Tilly Norwood
Eline Van Der Velden is a creative technologist and entrepreneur who created Tilly Norwood, one of the first AI-generated virtual actresses. Her work explores the frontier of generative AI in entertainment and the creative industries, raising provocative questions about the future of performance, storytelling, and digital identity.
Tilly Norwood represents a new category of digital performers — AI-generated characters that can be directed, customized, and deployed across films, advertisements, and social media without the logistical constraints of human actors. Van Der Velden's work sits at the intersection of generative AI, computer graphics, and entertainment.
Her projects provoke important conversations about the impact of AI on creative industries, including questions about authorship, intellectual property, the economics of content creation, and the ethical implications of synthetic media.
