Panel Talk: The Machine’s Eye in Human Hands

Overview

© Eryk Salvaggio, © Kevin Abosch, © Susanne Fagerlund, © Kristi Coronado, © Jonas Bendiksen

When the machine no longer simply records the world, but begins to imagine new versions of it — what happens to photography as a bearer of truth?

On the opening night of The Machine’s Eye in Human Hands, we invite you to an intimate and thought-provoking panel with five of the exhibiting artists. Together, we step into the space where human intention meets machine imagination and where the boundaries between them begin to blur.

Moving beyond the technology itself, the conversation explores something deeper: our timeless urge to witness, to remember, to enchant and, at times, to deceive.

Moderated by Paulina Modlitba, one of Sweden’s leading voices in technology and innovation, the panel reflects on how AI is reshaping our understanding of fiction, memory, and the very nature of the image.

Join us for an evening that invites you to look closer, think further and reconsider what an image can be, and what it means to be human in an increasingly automated world.

Featured Artists

Jonas Bendiksen: The Magnum documentary photographer who shook the art world with The Book of Veles, showing how easily a total construction can be mistaken for documentary reality.

Eryk Salvaggio: Researcher and artist who strips away the myth of machine intelligence to find the human element within the "noise": glitches, errors, and algorithmic failures.

Susanne Fagerlund: Visual artist using archives and algorithms to create speculative ecosystems and new digital hybrid species.

Kristi Coronado & Seth Goldstein: The creators of SOLIENNE, an AI agent trained on personal memories rather than the internet, exploring "heritage, not exploitation."

Kevin Abosch: AI pioneer investigating the ethical and material costs of digital creation, from energy consumption to copyright.

Welcome to an evening that challenges your perception of what an image truly is and the role of the human in an automated future.

Details

Thursday May 7
18:00–20:00
Venue: Annie, floor 0

Tickets

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