Before and alongside queer.labs, Mark and Chris have collaborated on a wide range of projects, including:
Mark and Chris at MoMI Mark explains dumb AI Chris interviewing Mark and his bots
The Chrisy Show Season 2 (commissioned by the Museum of the Moving Image in 2025) was a talk show that mashed together machine learning and queer identity. As host, Chris interviewed Mark's futureProof chatbots (commissioned by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 2021), which represent displaced queer, Filipinx, and San Franciscan communities. It took Chrisy six months to get to know the bots because they were designed to respond randomly from their corpora. The work stands in opposition to the assumption that AI is inherently intelligent or even attentive to human needs. Instead, LEATHER-BOT, SHOWGIRL-BOT, and SWARDSPEAK-BOT act as gatekeepers of their communities' knowledge. For one episode, The Chrisy Show was broadcast live from MoMI, where Chris interviewed Mark and his bots before a live audience.
Credits: photography, Thanassi Karageorgiou and MoMI
Onassis ONX event Mark’s after-the-neon-war Chris’ Sorry to dump on you like this.zip
Initially, Reverse Tar Pit was presented as a virtual exhibition on New Art City for The Wrong Biennale (2023–24). It was later produced as an in-person exhibition at Brooklyn Art Cluster and as an event at Onassis ONX. From a seething sludge of digital debris and depleted fossil fuels, the zombie corpses of unminted NFTs rise, shedding oily droplets of virtual decay. The works began as digital files forgotten in the labyrinths of obsolete servers and subjected to the pressures of networked hypermodernity. They now return to haunt a world drowning in media disinformation. Mark and Chris collaborated on both their individual artworks and the virtual exhibition's installation.
Curaturial walk-through with Mark and Chris Installation of The Chrisy Show that Mark suggested doing as a Sturgis drive-in theater Mark’s what if we kissed by #dogecoin peak?
As members of NEW INC, Mark and Chris brought the Art & Code cohort together to produce the 2021 virtual exhibition NFS NSFW NFT. Presented on New Art City, the exhibition included a Zoom opening, newly commissioned essays by Lindsay Howard and Zach Kaplan, and a collectively minted NFT on Foundation, all exploring the critical poetics of that particular not-for-sale, not-safe-for-work, and non-fungible-token moment.
Rather than recreating a white cube, we built four interconnected rooms that functioned like community gardens, each with its own theme, landscape, and ecosystem of artworks, from AI experiments and livestream videos to invisible and text-based sculptures. Each environment is skinned with digital debris from the vectoralists (to borrow McKenzie Wark's term). We built on, under, and around their topology: holding space, getting lost, and keeping company.
The exhibition was reviewed by Brian Droitcour for Art in America.
The Chrisy Show Season 2 (commissioned by the Museum of the Moving Image in 2025) was a talk show that mashed together machine learning and queer identity. As host, Chris interviewed Mark's futureProof chatbots (commissioned by Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in 2021), which represent displaced queer, Filipinx, and San Franciscan communities. It took Chrisy six months to get to know the bots because they were designed to respond randomly from their corpora. The work stands in opposition to the assumption that AI is inherently intelligent or even attentive to human needs. Instead, LEATHER-BOT, SHOWGIRL-BOT, and SWARDSPEAK-BOT act as gatekeepers of their communities' knowledge. For one episode, The Chrisy Show was broadcast live from MoMI, where Chris interviewed Mark and his bots before a live audience.
Credits: photography, Thanassi Karageorgiou and MoMI
Initially, Reverse Tar Pit was presented as a virtual exhibition on New Art City for The Wrong Biennale (2023–24). It was later produced as an in-person exhibition at Brooklyn Art Cluster and as an event at Onassis ONX. From a seething sludge of digital debris and depleted fossil fuels, the zombie corpses of unminted NFTs rise, shedding oily droplets of virtual decay. The works began as digital files forgotten in the labyrinths of obsolete servers and subjected to the pressures of networked hypermodernity. They now return to haunt a world drowning in media disinformation. Mark and Chris collaborated on both their individual artworks and the virtual exhibition's installation.
As members of NEW INC, Mark and Chris brought the Art & Code cohort together to produce the 2021 virtual exhibition NFS NSFW NFT. Presented on New Art City, the exhibition included a Zoom opening, newly commissioned essays by Lindsay Howard and Zach Kaplan, and a collectively minted NFT on Foundation, all exploring the critical poetics of that particular not-for-sale, not-safe-for-work, and non-fungible-token moment.
Rather than recreating a white cube, we built four interconnected rooms that functioned like community gardens, each with its own theme, landscape, and ecosystem of artworks, from AI experiments and livestream videos to invisible and text-based sculptures. Each environment is skinned with digital debris from the vectoralists (to borrow McKenzie Wark's term). We built on, under, and around their topology: holding space, getting lost, and keeping company.
The exhibition was reviewed by Brian Droitcour for Art in America.