Located between the Primary School and the Public Library in the Greenpoint district in Brooklyn, there is a novel kind of “luxurious” coworking space.
Named Haus chat, this space has many elements that can be found in a conventional coworking office: people hammering the computer keyboards, another person answering the phone, someone else stops at the computer to make a sip of coffee.
However, there is one key difference: chat haus is a coworking place for AI chatbots, and everything – including people – is made of cardboard.
More precisely, the Haus chat is an exhibition of Brooklyn Artist art Mie-Reuven. It houses a handful of cardboard robots working on their computers through movements controlled by compact engines. There is a sign that offers a desk space for “only” USD 1999 per month, and another, which defines the space as a “luxurious place to cooperate with chatbots.”
Ben-Reiven told Techcrunch that he built an exhibition as a way to deal and bring humor to the fact that most of his work-which mainly focuses on graphic design and videography-she is pushed into the world of AI. He added that he is already receiving the refusal to work independent, because companies turn to AI tools.
“It was like an expression of frustration in a mood, so I wouldn’t be too bitter about the changing industry so quickly and under my breath and I didn’t want to be part of the change,” said Ben-Reuven. “So I thought I was just fighting something stupid that I can laugh at.”
He said that he also wanted to stop this exhibition from too negative, because he did not think that it would say the right news. He said that creating art, which is grossly negative, forces her to the corner and requires it to defend herself. He added that giving the display a “lighter tone” also helps him draw viewers of all ages and with all opinions on artificial intelligence.
While Ben-Revenen and I talked in Mr. Vino Vino, a cafe across the street from the window display, many groups of people stopped to look at the chat. Three thousand -year -old women stopped and took pictures. A group of elementary age students in the completed age stopped and asked questions for adults.
Ben-Revenen also thought that despite what AI does with the industry in which he works, the situation remains lighter than some other horror movies and trauma that continues in the world today.
“I mean that AI, in terms of the creative world, seems to be such a light thing compared to many others, such as war, things that happen in the world and like terror and trauma that exists,” he said.
Ben-Reuven always used cardboard in his art. At school, he re -replica of the cardboard airport terminal. Between independent works over the past decade he worked on building these cardboard robots or “cardboard children”, as he calls them. So when using these cardboard robots it was a natural choice to display – he joked, he also needed a reason to get them out of his apartment – the material also contains another comment on AI.
“The impermanence of these cardboard things and the ability to fall even under a little weight, is how I feel that AI interactions with creative industries,” he said. “People can make Midjourney images look really great on Instagram and excite the 12 -year -olds endlessly, but with any level of control are garbage, and I feel that you look close enough close to these cardboard things, it will fall easily and easily undergo all weight.”
However, he understands why consumers attract art generated by AI. He compared this to junk food and a brisk -acting hit serotonin, which results from food for junk food before he was quickly digested.
Haus chat is a fleeting display, because the building in which it is waiting allows you to approve renovation. Ben-Revenen hopes to keep the display to at least in mid-May and hopes that he will go to a larger gallery if he can. He wants to be able to add more to this – but he is worried about where he will put additional materials in his apartment after the display.
“I just thought that it would be fun to express this idea, for example a whole bunch of charming, terrifying, little work that they write because of our hints of chatgpt in a warehouse, working, working without a foot, taking as much electricity as Switzerland uses during the year,” said Ben-Reuven.
Haus chat is currently displayed in the front window of 121 Norman Avenue in Brooklyn, the Fresh York Greenpoint district.