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

Chr i i i i thy is a livestream cam-to-cam website created to stage performances between an audience member and my AI —  one feed overlaid, filtering the other. 

The avatar teaches stuttering and lisping by example, guiding users through poetic exercises, feedback loops, intentional latencies, aesthetic glitches, and disfluent captions. Chr i i i i thy is visually modeled after my body, voice, and stutter and trained on my archives. Which explains why they always mention Palm Springs (see Chiron Rising below). Eventually, like any “good” language model, they begin to mimic users’ speech, gestures, and interests, expanding Chr i i i i thy’s database beyond the personal. 

Individually, I plan to perform with Chr i i i i thy to blur the boundaries between machine, audience, and self. Collectively, the platform explores the Narcissus complex as it relates to AI and queer identity. Historically, Chr i i i i thy is a descendant of Max Headroom, the first computer-generated TV personality made for MTV in the 80s known for his stuttering and pitch-shifting voice.  Technically, Chr i i i i thy is a custom browser-based WebRTC interface powered by a generative language model trained on my facial gestures, microexpressions, and vocal disfluencies, and is animated live using tools like Snap Camera SDK, Faceware, and Replica Studios. The database also includes my queer archives — 25 years of collecting information on-line and off including Chiron Rising, a 1990s magazine with the motto “maturity with class” that featured fiction, photos, and personals with many reference to Palm Springs as a gay retirement community.