Making AI Chairs

Making AI chairs and “benchmarking” different AI models is a workshop and part of a series of experiments by James Bridle.

James created an approach and instructions to create this art piece at every location in the world.

James: “We did discuss the AI chair a bit before: there’s now an instruction-based version of this, which was recently enacted in Japan.

We discussed doing the next iteration during ThingsCon. We arrange the recycled wood provided by Buurman.

“I really like this approach; I am hoping we can make a few more, with different models, as a “benchmarking” series. I really want to know what e.g. a Claude vs a Gemini vs a (god help us) Grok chair would look like.”

James Bridle will not be at ThingsCon in person. We use his instructions to build the AI Chairs using four different generative AI models and exhibit the chairs afterwards.

About James Bridle

James Bridle is a writer, artist and technologist. Their artworks have been commissioned by galleries and institutions and exhibited worldwide and on the internet. Their writing has appeared in magazines and newspapers including Wired, the Atlantic, the New Statesman, the Guardian, and the Financial Times. They are the author of ‘New Dark Age’ (2018) and ‘Ways of Being’ (2022), and they wrote and presented “New Ways of Seeing” for BBC Radio 4 in 2019. Their work can be found at http://jamesbridle.com.

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