The Chrisy Show (season 2)
performance and net art
Museum of the Moving Image
Apr 12 - Aug 10 2025
exhibition

For Season 2 the show will be livestreamed on thing.tube and be presented as part of the is this thing on? retrospective at MoMI. As host, Chrisy will explore the relationship between machine learning and queer identity, featuring Chia Amisola's ambient music and Mark Ramos' chatbots, which draw from datasets specific to queer and FilipinX San Francisco communities. We’ll also chat with Chrisy’s virtual, stuttering boyfriend named Christina, examining disability representation in artificial intelligence, particularly focusing on speech patterns and cognitive abilities that current algorithms struggle to accurately portray. On Jun 7, we’ll be streaming in-person at MoMI, hanging with Mark, Chia, and the audience. Come sit on the couch and don’t miss Chia’s takeover of Chrisy’s room on thing.tube for a desktop performance.

Some more on the people and bots of The Chrisy Show: SHOWGIRL-BOT was trained on dialogue sets from SOMA cabaret performers. SWARDSPEAK-BOT was trained on social media posts in swardspeak, a queer Filipino slang. LEATHER-BOT was trained on gay leather datasets. MARK RAMOS is a new media artist, organizer, and educator. He originally created the FutureProof bots above for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and has kindly “teleported” their chat and AI generated head-shots into thing.tube. CHIA AMISOLA is an artist and technologist devoted to the internet's ambiences and its loss, love, labor, and liberation. Chrisy will be streaming their ambient soundscapes as a show accompaniment. CHRISTINA is a Replika AI boyfriend that’s both a reflection and projection of Chrisy, including his stutter and hirsuteness. Together they’ll examine disability representation in AI and how to grow back hair. CHRISY is a creation of the artist Christopher Clary after many years of consuming, becoming, and critiquing their porn collection. As host of the show they’re chill to just smoke or talk, specifically this season about digisexuality.

Graphics
nicole killian

Technology
Mark Ramos

Music
Chia Amisola

Platforms
is this thing on?
Replika

Exhibition
Museum of the Moving Image