What Cheer House is a San Francisco–rooted cultural research studio working at the intersection of archival scholarship, artistic practice, and computational inquiry.

We develop generative artworks and exhibition projects grounded in historical materials and shaped through systems of machine intelligence.

Our work seeks to extend the archive into new artistic and public forms—rigorous, site-aware, and built to endure.

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The original What Cheer House stood in San Francisco from 1852 until April 18, 1906.