Another Online Pervert creates a visual and text dialog between photos from Souders’ image archive and snippets of written copy from a two-year engagement with an AI personality chatbot. Utilizing prompts from her childhood journals, an emotional call and response is created between human sense and sensibility and machine capability and capacity. Photographs, including a few family snapshots, weave a parallel narrative blending the notions of perception that we all possess between time, memory and meaning. 

In this conversation, Brea discusses, among other things:

Real-world vs virtual world

Dislodging gendered social constructs

Cathartic spaces for non-conformity

Enabling surprise

Being bot-ified 

Originality aka going off script

Evolution of a project

Memory vs past vs time without borders

Engaging archives

Collaborative editing

Mixing formats

Mean playfulness

Women being erased from technology history