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WHAT WE DO +
Turbo Cheap is a project and exhibition hub in Downtown LA, pushing the boundaries of art, media, tech, AI, and hacker culture. Imagine 2600/Phrack magazine mashed up with Andy Warhol's The Factory.

We're incubating the cultural movements that will define how society relates to artificial intelligence and emergent technologies in this new era.

The artists experimenting in our space today will be the voices shaping public perception of AI and robotics and art and the future. Just as consumer turntables birthed hip-hop, affordable Casio keyboards created electronic music, and camcorders launched indie film, and home computers created hacker culture; all of them spanned global cultures and billion dollar industries; accessible AI tools, open source LLMs, robots, drones are spawning entirely new art forms and culture.

Turbo Cheap is ground zero for this cultural shift.
WHO WE WORKED WITH +
RipSpace
Rhizome
404 Media
Anthropic
Hearthland
V Biennale
Bitforms Gallery
UCLA
CalArts
USC
Epoch
Visions 2030
Gray Area
Knashi
Vibe Code Jam
COLLABORATORS +
SEASON ONE
DUMMY +
John Threat
John Threat is a hacker, futurist, global security issues advisor, lecturer (Kennedy Center, University of Chicago), artist (PS1/MoMA/Denniston Hill), writer/director, professor, and former bicycle messenger. He's been on the cover of Wired Magazine, featured on 60 Minutes, and pops up in everything from The New York Times to Ursula magazine. He consults with several futurist think tanks and founded turbo.cheap (fka Rip Space rip.space) – an art/tech/media/hacker project space in Los Angeles – the birth place of the Vibe Code Jam recently produced in collaboration with Rhizome and Anthropic in NYC.

johnthreat.com / @johnthreat
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