Artist Talk: Kevin Abosch

Overview

As part of the opening weekend of the exhibition The Machine’s Eye in Human Hands, we invite one of the participating artists, Kevin Abosch, to a conversation about photography, identity and our contemporary visual world. Abosch is one of the early pioneers of AI based image making, whose practice moves between photography, film, installation and machine learning. Since the early 1990s, he has worked with computer vision and artificial intelligence as artistic tools, long before these technologies became widely adopted in contemporary culture. His work revolves around questions of identity, value and what an image is or does in a time where more and more images are synthetically produced.

The conversation is moderated by Paulina Modlitba, AI expert, investor and author, working at the intersection of technology, business and public discourse. With a background from KTH and MIT, she is a frequent voice in discussions on how AI is reshaping society, creativity and the future of work.

Together, they explore how artificial intelligence is transforming the conditions of image making, authorship and perception, and what happens as the boundary between the human and the machine becomes increasingly blurred. 

About Kevin

Kevin Abosch (b. 1969) is an Irish conceptual artist working across photography, film, installation, and machine-learning-based image-making. His work has consistently arrived ahead of cultural consensus — on identity, value, and the nature of the image. Among the earliest pioneers of AI-based image-making, Abosch has worked with machine learning and computer vision since 1992, a practice whose cultural moment has only recently caught up with him. He lives in Paris and holds a lectureship at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.  

About Paulina

Paulina Modlitba is a thought leader in AI and technology, with an academic background from KTH and MIT. As an angel investor, board member, and AI expert featured on Nyhetsmorgon, she actively contributes to public debate and drives change. She also runs one of Sweden’s largest newsletters on AI and published the book Vad fan ska vi med AI till in 2025.  

Details

Date: May 9th  

Time: 14:00–16:00  

Location: Annie, floor 0  

General museum admission applies!  

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