00:00There has to be some middle ground, but I see myself, not in a stroller, but in my own, you know, environment with these things.
00:10Of course.
00:14My name is Moises Zanabria and I'm a creative technologist and sculptor using ready-mades and assemblets.
00:22Here are, this is my studio at the amazing Bakehouse Art Complex.
00:27We're here at the brunch and I focus on materializing the internet.
00:33Like how do you bring the digital into the physical space to texture objects, material, weight.
00:39And I'm really interested in taking these objects and speaking about, for example, future generations.
00:46Like what does it mean to grow up with AI in the same way that I grew up with the internet, those generational gaps.
00:53And in a way, like with birth AI, like what does it mean to using these mass data sets, train these, you know, newer species.
01:03Like where, where is that taking us and how do we create a space to talk about it?
01:07This piece, for example, is one of my newer works in collaboration with my wife, Javiola.
01:13And we work on, Javiola Larios, and we work on upcycling e-waste and finding ways to talk about the anxieties
01:21and the uncomfortable feelings that we have around technology, whether that's planned obsolescence.
01:27And like, what do we do with these cables?
01:29Do they work?
01:31Should we keep them?
01:32And creating this object that gives them material weight of, you know, them falling through gravity.
01:38But at the same time, speaking about what does it mean to be doom scrolling on feeds?
01:43Like what is that doing to our brains, to our synapses?
01:46And for example, brain rot, like that type of content.
01:50And so how do we create objects that when you look at them, capture your attention and, you know, kind of do like beyond words type of critique.
02:01Like you look at something, but you don't, you're trying to process what it's saying through its material.
02:07This work is called Baby AGI, and it is a stroller that I picked up.
02:26And so it's this ready-made object that then has a video game curved monitor that fits perfectly inside with these DIY kit robot hands.
02:36And it's thinking about, again, like AI, growing up with AI, or for example, how is AI used to parent?
02:44Like, for example, AI nannies, ideas around like iPad kids.
02:49Like, you kind of are born into some type of machine system, whether it's a tablet, and like, what is that doing, again, to our brains?
03:00And it's a very complicated, but I think fascinating subject to talk about.
03:05And so as part of the digital initiative here at Bakehouse Art Complex, my wife and I are working on creating a metaverse world through the Mudd Foundation technology.
03:16And so this is a Google map of Bakehouse that we've extruded, and you'll be able to visit it through an online portal.
03:26You'll be able to visit each of the studios, and it will reach an international audience.
03:34Like, how do we get more people to come to Bakehouse and support this amazing project and nonprofit?
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