The Intersection of Nature, Science, and AI ArtSynopsis: If machines can process memories, can they also dream or hallucinate about them?
Since 2016, Refik Anadol Studio has been exploring this idea through AI Data Sculptures—dynamic, multi-sensory artworks that transform vast datasets into immersive visual experiences. In this talk, Refik Anadol will share the Studio's journey of creating artworks that blur the boundaries between the digital and physical realms. These projects draw on interdisciplinary collaborations with scientists, architects, and communities to visualize complex datasets in ways that invite deeper reflection. The Studio’s works offer new forms of narrating collective memory in both public and virtual spaces, combining the beauty of natural phenomena with cutting-edge technology.
Biography
Refik Anadol (b. 1985, Istanbul, Turkey) l, an internationally renowned media artist and director, is a pioneer in the aesthetics of machine intelligence. He is the Director of Refik Anadol Studio in Los Angeles and Lecturer in UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts. Anadol’s work locates creativity at the intersection of humans and machines. Taking the data that surrounds us as primary material, and the neural network of a computerized mind as a collaborator, Anadol offers us radical visualizations of our digitized memories and expands the possibilities of interdisciplinary arts. Anadol’s site-specific data paintings and sculptures, live audio/visual performances, and immersive installations take many forms, while encouraging us to rethink our engagement with the physical world, collective experiences, public art, decentralized networks, and the creative potential of AI.
Anadol’s work has been exhibited at venues including MoMA, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Art Basel, National Gallery of Victoria, Venice Architecture Biennale. Anadol has received a number of prestigious awards and prizes.
