iFotografiska Stockholm · Södermalm
The Machine's Eye in Human Hands
Truth or fiction? An exhibition of AI-generated imagery asking how generative art shapes our sense of reality.
You walk in to a looping video of pale cherubs floating over circuit boards, until android hands make them vanish. Further in, Jonas Bendiksen's The Book of Veles shows the North Macedonian town known for fake news. The streets are real, the people are bought 3D avatars, and he revealed the hoax himself.
Eight artists share the second floor, some using AI as a partner and some taking it apart. Phillip Toledano invents the D-Day roll Robert Capa lost in the darkroom. SOLIENNE is an AI agent trained on Kristi Coronado's life and heartbreak, and you can interact with it. A timeline sets it all against photography's older history of retouching and propaganda.
The one visitor review we found, by the blogger Jennifer Gori, was harsh: she called it "art… without art", found the video corridor cramped, and noted every video is watched standing. Entry is included in the 195 SEK ticket, Fotografiska is open until 23:00 daily, and the show closes on 29 November.
Look for
The cherub loop
Look at the entrance for diaphanous cherubs drifting over integrated circuits before a pair of android hands makes them disappear.
Jonas Bendiksen's The Book of Veles
Documentary-style pictures of Veles in North Macedonia: the empty streets were photographed for real, and every person in them is a 3D avatar.
Phillip Toledano's We Are At War
An AI-made version of the D-Day roll Capa lost, with soldiers Gori saw grinning "like children on a sugar high".
SOLIENNE
An AI agent trained on Kristi Coronado's own life, childhood and heartbreak, which you can interact with rather than just look at.
The video corridor
Surreal videos where Baroque, Renaissance and steampunk styles collide, with animal and humanoid creatures that glitter like jewellery.
Good for
- Evening Visits
- Nerding Out
- Teenagers
Skip if
You came for camera photography: nearly everything here was made with AI or 3D software.
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Image credits
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- The Machine's Eye in Human HandsCourtesy of Fotografiska Stockholm
- City FacesCourtesy of Stockholm City Museum (Stadsmuseet)
- Byggfenomen: The First and Last Thing We SeeCourtesy of ArkDes
- Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian – Tehran/New YorkCourtesy of Moderna Museet
- Fotografiska StockholmJulian Herzog / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
- Stockholm City Museum (Stadsmuseet)Holger.Ellgaard / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- ArkDesMarco Cappelletti, CC BY 4.0
- Moderna MuseetHolger Ellgaard / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities (Östasiatiska museet)Holger.Ellgaard / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0