Chr i i i i thy
performance and net art
coming in 2026

Chr i i i i thy is a livestream platform that superimposes your image on top of an AI avatar modeled after my body, voice, and gestures. First, Chr i i i i thy teaches stuttering and lisping by example, guiding participants through poetic exercises, feedback loops, and disfluent captions, always bringing the conversation back to Palm Springs (see “Chiron Rising” below). Then, like any “good” LLM, Chr i i i i thy starts mimicking the user in body, voice, and gestures so they might learn together.

I plan to perform with Chr i i i i thy — to continue reflecting, projecting, and ultimately blurring what is machine and what is me.

Technically, Chr i i i i thy is powered by a generative AI language model trained structurally on my stutter and subjectively on my queer collections (e.g., “Chiron Rising”, an 1980s magazine for the gay mature community that contained fiction, profiles, and personals). The avatar, designed to mimic my facial gestures, microexpressions, and vocal disfluencies, is animated live using tools like Snap Camera SDK, Faceware, and Replica Studios. Users interact with the bot through a custom browser-based WebRTC setup. Intentional latency, freezes, glitches serve both aesthetic and pedagogical purposes, allowing the bot to perform stuttering not only in speech, but in time. I envision Chr i i i i thy as a live, chiller version of Max Headroom, the first computer-generated TV personality made for MTV in the 80s known for his stuttering and pitch-shifting voice.