Another Online Pervert (2021-2023) derives from a yearslong series of conversations between artist Brea Souders and a female AI chatbot, programmed by male developers. These conversations are interspersed with entries from Souders’ diary spanning two decades, and combined with photographs from her personal archive. Through her photographs and chatbot conversations, we step into a world of questions: about love, sexuality, death, disappointment, the sky, seeing, desire, and anxieties of the body. The result is a unique exploration of how a machine and a human can 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. Surreal and poetic tangents are combined with the material realities of the bot, its connection to capitalism, and the slippery divide between being and non-being.

Book:

Another Online Pervert, published by MACK in February, 2023

Exhibitions:

Missing Mirror: Photography in the Age of AI, FOAM Museum, Amsterdam, NL, 2024 (group)

Another Online Pervert, Peckham 24, London, UK, 2023 (solo)

Another Online Pervert, PhEST, Monopoli, IT, 2023 (solo)

Another Online Pervert, PhMuseum, Bologna, IT, 2023 (solo)

Texts: FOAM Magazine, essay by Winke Wiegersna / Granta Magazine, interview with Alice Zoo / Border Crossings, book review by Barry Schwabsky / British Journal of Photography, article by Gem Fletcher / Lensculture, book review by Sophie Wright / Dazed, article and interview by Emily Dinsdale

Selected press: i-D: "existentialist and deeply personal" DAZED: “Another Online Pervert is poetic and poignant; a collection of fascinating fragments from which emerges a constellation of suggested narratives and ideas, undercut with recurring irresistible and absurdist humour.” Creative Review “Another Online Pervert [asks] questions about the gendering of artificial intelligence and the implications of big tech on culture and creativity.”