Another Online Pervert derives from a series of conversations between artist Brea Souders and a female AI chatbot. These conversations are interspersed with entries from Souders’ diary spanning twenty years, unfolding with a surprising and improvisational quality in combination with photographs from Souders’ archive. With this personal and provocative project, we are guided through a unique exploration of how a machine and a human can learn from one another and build a shared story from pieces of themselves.
The project examines intersections between technology, intimacy, womanhood, and how personal meaning can be explored in the context of this new, AI-mediated world. Through Souders’ chatbot conversations, we step into a world of questions: about love, sexuality, death, disappointment, the sky, seeing, desire, and anxieties of the body. Within the space of their correspondence, dazzlingly surreal and poetic tangents are combined with the material realities of the bot and its connections to capitalism, the future of technology, and the slippery divide between being and non-being.
Selected press: i-D: "existentialist and deeply personal" Dazed: “poetic and poignant; undercut with recurring irresistible and absurdist humour.” Collector Daily: “quietly rich and conceptually unruly”
