Brea Souders – Another Online Pervert

#1 min Markéta Kinterová

5. 12. 2023

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"I don't trust bathrooms without a mirror. What do you trust? Foxes. Yes."

 

American artist Brea Souders' interviews with an online chatbot are accompanied by photos from the artist's archive. Through the very peculiar and delicate dialogues between a woman and artificial intelligence – through the woman, we touch the fragile boundaries between what we perceive as human and vice versa. In a colourful mix of feelings, at a certain point saturated with repetition, we find that they mirror ourselves and our previous experiences or associations that the poetically machine-like text evokes in us.

"Susanne told me that she didn't really know how to please a woman. Just as she said it, her clitoris-shaped necklace fell off! Here we go again. Another online pervert."

 

Brea Souders, Another Online Pervert, London: Mackbooks, 2023

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Markéta Kinterová

is the artistic director of Fotograf.zone and the editor-in-chief of the online magazine Fotograf. Her practice focuses on artistic research related to public space. She teaches at the Department of Photography at FAMU, Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.

#45 Hypertension

Feelings of hypertension, a hyper-tense body, hypertension of the heart, hypertensive impulses, hypertensive images, hypertensive stimuli, hypertensive behavior, hypertensive individuals, hypertensive situations, hypertensive information flows, hypertensive media, a hypertensive flow of notifications. Is your blood pressure still the same? Is it rising? All fine? Are you feeling okay? Elevated blood pressure, or hypertension, is a metaphor for the question of the new virtual “I” and the changeability of a newly formed identity, the theme of this year’s Fotograf Festival, hypertension23, and also of this issue, which this time breaks away from the usual concept due to the connection to the festival, bringing a more concrete form, more akin to a catalogue.

Tourism

#2 min Markéta Kinterová

Tourism

#46 TourismEditorialHistory

It is interesting how much the world of photography is connected with tourism, in other words, how much the two domains may have in common. If we look at them through the lens of a mass phenomenon, they may even be similarly old. And it is in this perspective that a number of controversial questions arise in all their clarity. To what extent has tourism affected many of the coastlines and unique destinations that attract tourists? And to what extent does photography influence our perception of the places we visit?