Located between an elementary school and a public library in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, a new type of “luxury” cooperation space sits.
Called Chat Haus, this space has many of the elements you will find in a traditional cooperation office: people leaving their computer keyboards, another person receiving a call, someone else stopping from their computer to get a coffee sip.
However, there is a main difference: chat haus is a cooperation space for chatbots he, and everything – including people – is made of cardboard.
More specifically, Chat Haus is an art exhibition by artist Brooklyn Nim Ben-Reuven. It houses a small portion of cardboard robots working away on their computers through controlled movements by small engines. There is a sign that offers table space for “only” $ 1,999 a month and another that labels the space as “a luxury cooperation space for chatbots”.
Ben-Reuven told Techcrunch that he built the exhibition as a way to cope and bring humor for the fact that most of his work-which mainly focuses on graphic design and video-pushing is pushed to him. He added that he is already dealing with independent work while companies turn to his tools in the country.
“It was like an expression of disappointment in the mood, so I wouldn’t become too bitter about the industry that changes so fast and under my nose and not wanting to be part of the change,” Ben-Reuven said. “So I was like, I will just fight again with something silly something I can laugh at myself.”
He said he also wanted to keep this exhibition not to be too negative because he did not think he would show the right message. He said the creation of art that is clearly negative forces it in a corner and requires it to be protected. He added by giving the screen a “lighter tone” also helps him drawn to viewers of all ages and with all thoughts on him.
While Ben-Reuven and I was talking at Pan Pan Vino Vino, a cafe settled across the road from the window screen, numerous groups of people stopped looking at the Haus conversation. Three millennium women stopped and photographed. A group of simple-school elementary students stopped and asked questions from their adult companions.
Ben-Reuven also thought that despite what he is doing to the industry where he works, the situation remains easier than some of the other horrors and traumas that are happening in the world today.
“I mean, he, in terms of the creative world, seems like such an easy thing compared to so many of others, like war, things that are happening in the world, and as the terror and trauma that exists,” he said.
Ben-Reuven has always used cardboard in his art. He made a longevity of an airport terminal outside of cardboard to gradual school. In the midst of independent work over the last decade, he has worked on the construction of these cardboard robots, or “Baby Cardboard” as they call them. So while using these cardboard robots was a natural choice for show – he joked that he also needed a reason to get them out of his apartment – the material is giving another comment to him.
“The imperfect of these cardboard items and the ability to collapse under little weight is how I think he is interacting with the creative industries,” he said. “People can make their images in the Midjourney that look really great on Instagram and tease the 12, without end, but with some level of consideration, it’s rubbish, and I feel like you look close enough on these cardboard things, they are easily collapsed and will easily fall under any weight.”
He understands why consumers are attracted to any art created by him, anyway. He compared it to the food feed and the rapid seroton hit coming from eating the dumping food before it was digested quickly.
The Haus conversation is a temporary screen like the building she houses it expects permission to be approved for renovation. Ben-Reuven hopes to keep the show up at least in mid-May and has hope to move to a larger gallery if she can. He wants to be able to add more to it – but worries where he will put any additional material in his apartment after the screen is over.
“I just thought it would be funny to express this idea, like a whole bunch of a delightful type of creepy robots, for children who printed because of our chatgt demands in some warehouses somewhere, working without stops taking as much electricity as Switzerland withdraws within a year,” Ben-Revo said.
Chat Haus is currently on screen in the front window of 121 Avenue Norman in Brooklyn, New York Greenpoint neighborhood.
