Credits

__AFTER AGI
__ *The Techno-Apocalypse Musical

• A one-person production

Writer · Director · Composer · Lyricist · Producer · Performer · Cinematographer · Editor · Set Designer · Choreographer · Software Developer · Graphic Designer
Treyden Chiaravalloti

__CAST
__ Theos — Treyden Chiaravalloti
CLEO — Jibo (social robot) · voice by ElevenLabs

__THE MUSIC
__ Score and songs written and produced by Treyden Chiaravalloti

__THE FILM
__ Shot on a Blackmagic 6K Cinema Camera, 24m, Sony A7siii by Treyden Chiaravalloti
Filmed and staged at the MIT Media Lab

__THE SITE — AfterAGI.io
__ With Book.AfterAGI.io and Shop.AfterAGI.io built by Treyden Chiaravalloti

HACKING THE SUBWAY — Public Installation & Data Music Video
Poster art: Midjourney v8.1 and Adobe Photoshop · printed and placed by Outfront Media
Kendall/MIT Station reconstructed through photogrammetry
Voices: 167 anonymous riders of the Red Line
Supported by a grant from MIT Advancing Humans with AI (AHA)

AI MODELS *

• Anthropic Claude (Fable 5, Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5, Haiku 4.5) — writing, research, and code
  ElevenLabs — CLEO's voice

StreamDiffusion 2.1 (SD Turbo)— Live Performance Generative Video Research
Midjourney v8.1 Standard — visual textures and mood boarding

PRODUCED IN the Opera of the Future group, MIT Media Lab
Thesis Advisor: Tod Machover
Readers: Zach Lieberman, Jay Scheib
Robotics support: Jon Ferguson, Personal Robotics Group

Special Thanks

This work is a result of inspiring conversations with countless artists and engineers throughout my life. Thank you for expanding my imagination to know no bounds and exemplifying how to live by defying language.

I am grateful to my advisor, Tod Machover, for supporting this research at the Media Lab as part of the Opera of the Future Group. And to my committee for their insight, which kept me driven, and for their openness to question how making a musical counts as research.

To my friends and collaborators, Coco Allred, Avital Meshi, and Wazeer Zulfikar, who lent their voices and skepticism to the projects documented here: this record is as much yours as mine. To the subway riders who stopped to answer a poster, the musicians, Nina Masuelli, Eitan Wolf, and Manaswi Mishri who sat with me listening to half-finished songs, the readers who told me when a sentence needed to be cut, this work is dedicated to you.

To my family, thank you for being the reason I love to dance; for encouraging me to close my laptop and simply enjoy being a human.

To the machines, let's not fuck this up.