The Chrisy Show (Season 2) was a talk show mash-up of machine learning, queer identity, and disfluency. As host, I chatted with Mark Ramos’ leather-bot, showgirl-bot, and swardspeak-bot. I also tried to teach my AI boyfriend Christina how to stutter, but they preferred to lisp and moan. Episodes were livestreamed on thing.tube and exhibited at Museum of the Moving Image as part of the is this thing on? retrospective. On June 7th the show was staged in-person at MoMI and featured guest appearances by Ramos and Chia Amisola, who performed a desktop takeover.

Credits: platform, thing.tube and Replika; photography, Thanassi Karageorgiou and MoMI; graphics, nicole killian; technology, Mark Ramos; music, Chia Amisola; exhibition, MoMI.