In the Clouds with Arvida Byström
Published by Nuda (2024)
In the Clouds is a pocket-sized book spanning 164 pages, by Nuda and Arvida Byström. The book has a perforated cover and can be locked with a piercing, to keep outsiders from looking into this NSFW material.
The book is a compilation of images in which Arvida Byström has generated nudes of herself from existing photographs using the AI tool ”Undress.app” to digitally remove her clothes. Between December 13, 2023, and April 1, 2024, these images were sold under the false pretense that they were real on an OnlyFans-esque app where people could chat with “Arvida Byström” and purchase her nudes for “sunbeams.” The voice of “Arvida” on the app was generated through an AI, trained on interviews with the real Arvida Byström to learn as much as possible about her art and preferences.
The provocative imagery in the book evolves from pornstar fantasy into scandalous, sometimes repelling, images that the AI has fucked up in different ways, challenging ideas of what’s hot and what’s not. The book also contains three essays and short stories reveling in the subject of intimacy and technology, by star philosopher Slavoj Žižek, cultural critic C/M Edenborg, and fan-fic novelist Olivia Kan-Sperling.
Press
Dazed, AnOther Magazine, Forbes
Dress to Impress by New Balance and Nuda
Published by Nuda (2024)
Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation
Project from The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (2023)
In this publication, Sophie Lewis’s text, Abolish The Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation, is decorated with hand drawn illustrations inspired by hand drawn illustrations in Ain’t I A Woman, published by The Iowa City Women's Press from 1970-1971.
The publication was first printed, then the illustrations were hand-drawn onto every single page.
I Wanted to Have Fun but It Was Never a Party
Exhibition by Gabriel Hafner hosted by Nuda (2024)
