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Located between elementary school and a public library in Brooklyn neighborhood Greenpoint is a new type of “luxury” coworking space.
Called Chat Haus, this space has many elements you would find in the traditional Coworking Office: People who hit their computer keyboard, another person who takes a phone call, and someone else pauses a computer to take a sip of coffee.
There is, however, one key difference: Chat Haus is a coworking space for AI chatbot, and everything is – including people – made of cardboard.
More specifically, chat haus is an artistic exhibition of Brooklyn artist Nim me-reuven. It houses a handful of cardboard robots working on their computers through movements controlled by small engines. There is a sign that offers a table for “only” $ 1,999 a month, and the second that denotes the space as “luxury space for cooperation for chatbot”.
Ben-Reuven told Techcrunch that he built the exhibition as a way to carry and bring humor to the fact that most of his work-which is mostly focused on graphic design and videoography in the world of AI. He added that he had already been rejected by his free jobs because the companies were addressing the AI tool instead.
“It was as an expression of frustration in humor, so I wouldn’t be too outraged when the industry changes so quickly and under the nose and I don’t want to be part of the shift,” Ben-Reuven said. “So I was, I’ll just get back with something stupid to laugh at myself.”
He said he also wanted to prevent this exhibit too negative because he didn’t think he would say the right message. He said that the creation of art that is sharply negative forces her to the corner and demands that he defend himself. He added, giving the “lighter tone” screen to the viewers of all ages and with all the AI opinions.
While Ben-Reuven and I spoke to Pan Pan Pan wine wine, a cafe located across the street exhibition, numerous groups of people stopped to look at Chat Haus. Three millennial women stopped and took pictures. A group of students in elementary school stopped and asked adult questions.
Ben-Reuven also thought that despite what Ai does with the industry he works, the situation is still lighter than some other horrors and traumas that are happening in the world today.
“I mean, in terms of the creative world, it seems like such a light deal compared to many others, such as war, things that happen in the world and like the terror and trauma that exists,” he said.
Ben-Reuven always used cardboard in his art. He made a rescue of an airport cardboard terminal at school. Between free jobs during the last decade, he has worked on the construction of these carton robots or “cardboard babies” as he calls them. So, while the use of these carton robots was a natural choice to display – he joked that he also needed a reason to get them out of his apartment – the material also gives another comment on AI.
“The absence of these carton things and the ability to collapse under even a little weight is that I feel Ai communicates with creative industries,” he said. “People can make their pictures in Midjourney who look great on Instagram and excite 12 -year -olds to the end, but with any level of surveillance, it is garbage and I feel like you look close enough to these carton things, they can easily collapse and will easily fall under any weight.”
He realizes why consumers are drawn to some art generated by AI. He compared to the worthless food and the rapid hit of the serotonin coming from eating worthless food before digesting quickly.
Chat Haus is a temporary screen because the building where there is a permit for approval for renovation. Ben-Reuven hopes to keep the screen at least until mid-May and hopes to move into a larger gallery if he can. He wants to be able to add more to him – but he cares where he will put any extra material in his apartment after the screen is over.
“I just thought it would be funny to express this idea of, like, a whole crowd of sympathetic, creepy robots that typing baby because of our chatgpt instructions in some warehouse, doing non-stop by taking as much electricity like the Swiss demolish in the year,” Ben-Reuven said.
Chat Haus is currently exhibited in the front window 121 Norman Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, Greenpoint neighborhood.
