Artist Brea Souders is joined in conversation with writer and critic Sophie Haigney to discuss her new book, Another Online Pervert, which derives from a series of personal and provocative conversations with an online chatbot.
Wednesday 29 March
18:00 EST
Rizzoli Bookstore
1133 Broadway
New York
10010
Free to attend, RSVP here
Another Online Pervert derives from a series of conversations between artist Brea Souders and a female online chatbot. These real-time 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 book, 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.
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.
Find out more and order copies here.
