Two guys walk into a Tru Blues House of Wings on Johnnie Dodds Boulevard. They depart with a not-particularly-simple plan. That is to reconcile human-powered art with the rapid advance of artificial intelligence, or AI.
Only in Charleston, y’all.
The area has become sufficiently alluring to attract HBO hitmakers like Danny McBride and mega-million-commanding digital artists like Beeple (aka Mike Winkelmann). Both live and work in Charleston..
And when the two hatch an artistic bromance over finger-licking pub grub, the outcome is bound to raise some eyes, poke some fun and provoke some solid thought.
A meeting of minds
“Synthetic Theatre,” the collaboration of Beeple Studios and McBride’s Rough House Pictures, was unleashed in a pixelated profusion at the artist’s Cainhoy space on Oct