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Event: “Exploring the machinic vision of (human) tissue,” September 13, 2025, Schering Stiftung, Berlin

Event: “Exploring the machinic vision of (human) tissue,” September 13, 2025, Schering Stiftung, Berlin
Photo: Valentin Dobrun

Event: “Exploring the machinic vision of (human) tissue,” September 13, 2025, Schering Stiftung, Berlin

Event: “Exploring the machinic vision of (human) tissue,” September 13, 2025, Schering Stiftung, Berlin
Photo: Valentin Dobrun

Event: “Exploring the machinic vision of (human) tissue,” September 13, 2025, Schering Stiftung, Berlin

Event: “Exploring the machinic vision of (human) tissue,” September 13, 2025, Schering Stiftung, Berlin
Photo: Valentin Dobrun

Exploring the machinic vision of (human) tissue

Guided tour and discussion with kennedy+swan and Nataša Vukajlović as part of Berlin Art Week

Exploring the machinic vision of (human) tissue

Guided tour and discussion with kennedy+swan and Nataša Vukajlović as part of Berlin Art Week

Date:

September 13, 2025, 1–2 pm

Venue:

Project Space Schering Stiftung
Unter den Linden 32-34
10117 Berlin

The meeting point for the tour is in front of the project space.


In the conversation accompanying the exhibition, kennedy+swan offer insight into their artistic exploration of data-driven diagnostics, humanity’s fantasies of immortality, and a medical system increasingly shaped by efficiency and market-driven logic.

In the field of AI in medicine, emerging technologies make it possible to collect, visualize, and analyze data from inside the human body. In their works kennedy+swan explore how such machines recognize and classify aquarelles — which imitate human tissue samples — as potentially diseased tissue scans. And show how the systems tend to provide plausible diagnoses instead of admitting insecurities.

In exchange with the audience, we focus on the following questions: What does it mean to open up the body to algorithmic systems? How do our senses of responsibility and trust change when machines interpret what is (supposedly) the inner working of our bodies?

kennedy+swan (founded in 2013) comprises the work of the two artists Bianca Kennedy and Swan Collective. When working together, they explore the future of non-human intelligence and its impact on plants, animals, machines, and humans. These utopias are liberated from human supremacy, illuminating the ecological benefits of hybrid life forms, and addressing the twisted relationship between humans and biotechnology. kennedy+swan exhibit internationally in galleries, museums, and festivals. Exhibitions include the Lyon Biennial, Gropius Bau Berlin, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig, CCBB Rio de Janeiro, and Sundance Film Festival. They were selected for a Studio Quantum residency from the Goethe-Institut in Ireland in 2023 and have been awarded a BIFOLD Residency for 2024/25. They live in Berlin.

 

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Nataša Vukajlović's interdisciplinary background derives from working at the intersection of curation, production, and communication of artistic and scientific projects. She currently works at Schering Stiftung as a project manager and curates the exhibition The Red Queen Effect with kennedy+swan.

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