Introduction: 00:01 – 03:34
Conversation: 03:35 – 46:30
Q & A: 46:34 – 59:45
Friday, April 14th, 2023 at 150 N Riverside Plaza, Chicago
“Chicago is, was, will be…” by NYC based artist Kenny Schachter is an immersive video installation created with Artificial Intelligence and commissioned by 150 Media Stream. The work features a hypothetical vision of Chicago as it might have appeared in prehistoric times, collaged with manipulated depictions of the city at present, and theoretical depictions of its appearance in the future. The images will be commingled with ChatGPT machine learning-generated text based upon the lyrics from the 1964 song, My Kind of Town (Chicago is). The looping video will combine text and images to create a forward-looking remix that covers a wide spectrum of history and popular culture, put through the blender of artificial intelligence, which will define much human activity in the digital renaissance we are living through. Project assistant: Caspar Gabriela.
This project is part of the 2023 Expo Chicago and will be on view at the 150 Media Stream until June 30th, 2023.