Kevin Abosch announces Tokyo exhibition collaboration with Richard Pleuger at Neort

Artists **Kevin Abosch** and **Richard Pleuger** are presenting their collaborative work *NEW TRUTH* at NEORT++ in Tokyo. The exhibition represents a cross-continental partnership between Los Angeles and Berlin-based creators. The show follows an announcement earlier this month about the summer collaboration at the digital art venue. NEORT++ serves as the hosting platform for this joint exhibition. *Details about the exhibition's duration and specific works on display have not been disclosed.*

A successful art vernissage took place in Tokyo at NEORT, featuring notable figures from the digital art community. **Key Highlights:** - Event hosted by NORIWTS, Toshiaki Takase, and curator Yusuke Shono - Attended by prominent NFT artists A_Mashiro and Sakazuki - Follows recent community gathering in Japan organized by NTT Digital The Tokyo art scene continues to strengthen connections within the web3 creative community through in-person events.

**UNKEPT (2026)** explores a fundamental contradiction in AI image generation. Artist Kevin Abosch prompted three AI systems—ChatGPT 4o, FLUX.2 Flex, and Grok Imagine—to create "unkept photographs": accidental shots, blurry frames, images meant for deletion. **The core insight**: Every "throwaway" image in training data was actually kept. Truly deleted photos leave no trace for AI to learn from. Each system produced different interpretations: - Body parts blocking the lens (fingers, hands, feet) - Messy room details (tangled cables, baseboards, shoes) - Life detritus (receipts, notes, bottles) The work highlights an **unverifiable loop**: AI can only simulate discarded images from what survived. The "unkept" is built entirely from the kept. This unverifiability isn't a flaw—it's the point. The project reveals how AI training data shapes what machines can imagine, even when asked to picture absence.

**Kevin Abosch** unveils *Testing Ground (e2.12)*, a new synthetic photograph printed on alu-Dibond measuring 200 x 150 cm. The work is released as a **limited edition of 3 + 2 artist proofs**, continuing Abosch's exploration of AI-generated imagery that began in 2015. This follows his recent activities including: - A 312-page monograph featuring synthetic photographs from 2015-2025 - Book signing at Paris Photo Fair in November - Previous untitled synthetic work from his custom diffusion model The piece represents Abosch's ongoing investigation into **synthetic photography** and digital art creation through machine learning processes.