09/26/2025
We’re open this Sunday, September 28th during Folsom St. Fair! Come see ‘s PET: Projected Emotional Technologies in exhibition.
📍 Telematic Media Arts
323 10th St. San Francisco, CA 94103
PET is a solo exhibition by Swedish artist Arvida Byström, curated by Alice Scope, that examines the emotional structures and dynamics of AI companionship through a cast of anthropomorphized digital avatars—animal-coded, face-swapped, and shaped by datasets reflecting male desire.
Arvida Byström (b. 1991 Sweden, Stockholm) is a digital native with an intrinsic relationship to pink. Exploring femininities and its complexities, often tied to online culture, she travels in an aesthetic universe of disobedient bodies, selfie sticks and fruits in lingerie. Her photography and endless instagram scroll has been in art shows all over the world as she starred both behind and infront of the camera of numerous influential brands and magazines.
Alice Scope is a Ukrainian new media art curator and researcher based in Los Angeles. She explores the realms of Posthumanism, Postgenderism, and authenticity in machines. Scope is currently working with Serpentine Arts Technologies and Vellum LA, a women-led new media art gallery. Her passion is to create speculative worlds through gaming, XR, blockchain, and performance. She is a contributor to Future Art Ecosystems (FAE), an annual strategic briefing that provides analytical and conceptual tools for the construction of 21st-century cultural infrastructure, published by Serpentine R&D Platform, and serves as a juror at the Denver Digerati Festival.
Telematic Media Arts is a black box gallery, art book publisher, and production company in San Francisco’s SoMa District with a focus on time-based arts, screen culture, and art’s intersection with technology.
