Kostis Stafylakis performs The Bear #2 at The Eye Altering.
After of months of exposure to online content from contemporary Russia, as part of my GZPRM GOPNIK project, my timeline was infected by countless reels showing bears engaging in friendly activities with humans: bears assisting men in their workout routine, humans feeding bears with spoons, cuddling with bears and so on. We know that, since the inception of Web 2.0, algorithms verge towards the taming of nature, and of animals in specific, by dressing them in cuteness. To undo this constructed cuteness, I started operating on my own algorithmic bears. This is my second operation, in the form of an indulging self-torture.
