For my further artistic practice I would like research the accelerating effect the implementation of digital technology and algorithms has on an individual.
For my further artistic practice I would like research the accelerating effect the implementation of digital technology and algorithms has on an individual.
Artworks and Processes
Artworks and Processes
Artworks and Processes
Artworks and Processes
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Refik Anadol
​© Refik Anadol, Machine Hallucinations
see more works at https://refikanadol.com/
"I think when we use architecture and technology with a purpose, we can create feelings that become embedded in our DNA.” – Refik Anadol
quantum computing software
machine-learning algorithms
collective memory of nature
narrating the “unknown”
Refik Anadol is interested in making the audience aware of the data we leave behind us rather than making data understandable. “Everything around us is recording data but are we aware of it?” (Anadol in Artechouse interview, 2019)
From the beginning of his artistic practice he was very focused on how to tell the invisible story of data. He believes that once people join the experience they will be captured by the imagination of machine and they will that they are there at that specific point in time which could enhance their imagination. He lets space dream trough AI and speculates about how to represent or collective memories in those public spaces.(Artechouse, 2019)
​© Refik Anadol, Generative Sketches Grid Studies, 2013, made with Processing
Machine Hallucinations — Space : Metaverse (2021)
The collection of works includes richly diverse artworks made by ML algorithms trained specifically on satellites photographs of deep space. He explores the the unknown and connections between obscurity and openness. Anadol and his team members began speculating the possibility that telescopes, which collect so many images in their memories, could dream about the universe. The collection was created by using over two million raw images captured and recorded by the International Space Station, the Hubble and MRO telescopes, providing a vast dataset to train a generative adversarial network. (Anadol, 2021)
In October 2021, eight video artwork installations in the Machine Hallucinations series were sold for more than $5 million in an NFT action held by the Hong Kong branch of Sotheby’s. (Campos, 2022)
Machine Hallucinations : Nature Dreams (2021)
“Imagining nature as a totality that fills the gaps in our otherwise narrow perception of the cosmos” (Anadol, 2021) lies at the heart of Anadol’s Nature Dreams. It is a series of synaesthetic reality experiments based on GAN algorithms developed by artificial intelligence. He applied machine learning to 68,986,479 million images and created a dataset that transforms into a collective latent cinematic experience. It communicates the beauty of the land we share. (Anadol Studio, 2021)
Refik Anadol, The 17th International Architecture Exhibition, 2021
Sense of Space
consists of two installations, Connectome Architecture and Molecular Architecture, that attempt to explore human cellular architectures that support the most dynamic and complex set of biological functions. (Anadol Studio, 2021)
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Connectome Architecture
showcases a 3D-printed AI Data Sculpture. It reflects how our brains learn, remember, and experience discrete emotions. The dataset that is used to train a ML algorithm is based on Human Connectome Project’s approximately 70 Terabytes of multimodal MRI data from people ranging from birth to nonagenarians. (Anadol Studio, 2021)
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Molecular Architecture
is a manifestation of infinitely dynamic and molecularly defined biological forms on the nanoscopic scale produced at Harvard’s Sabri Ülker Center. The installation defines how form relates to function in life, and how molecular architecture determines health or disease. (Anadol Studio, 2021)
Refik Anadol, Dataland 2019
Refik Anadol, Dataland Teaser 2022
DATALAND
Refik Anadol announched a multi-sensory, metaverse project DATALAND in partnership with Epson, L-Acoustics and LG Displays this year.
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“The DATALAND concept has its origins in work undertaken for the Venice Architecture Biennale process and Anadol has also received an Epic Games grant ‘to bring next-level concepts to the metaverse’. DATALAND’s first physical portal will be in Los Angeles in the US and multi-sensory AI data sculptures and paintings will be the core part of the experience.” (Campos, 2022)
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Anadol said: “DATALAND marks a turning point in data and AI aesthetics at the convergence of cutting-edge neuroscientific experiments and virtually enhanced physical reality. At RAS Media Lab, we have progressed from thought experiments on representing big data to more complex interdisciplinary inquiries into the relationship between perception, presence, and sensation.” (Campos, 2022)
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He describes this new experience as re-defining the relationship between perception, presence, and sensation. The immersive aesthetics will create unprecedented spaces and invent cutting-edge poetic algorithms for new meditative experiences in metaverse in which the sculptures adapt to the humans motion. (Anadol via Twitter, 2022; RAS, 2022)
Key Takeaways
Why is it relevant to me?
Anadol's visual language is closely related to the fluidity and connectedness of many different levels of information that can be identified as phenomena of digital space. His explorations in the field of AI and his spatial implementations also inspire my artistic language. Anadol seems to advocate human immersion in the digital space and participates in the creation of a metaverse. His work is in stark contrast to Olafur Eliasson's approach to the subject. Both positions are therefore important and inspirational for my research.
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What are my key take aways and how will I implement them?
For me personally, the superimposition and the immersive atmosphere of his work expresses very well the pull and attraction that the digital space and the complete immersion in it. I lose the sense of time and space when looking at his work.
Anadol's works show a certain instability and constant rearrangement of the particles and the scenery they create. The direction of his swings is always apparent, even when they collide and mix. Looking at his work helps me structure my compositions more clearly. The use of the grid and the particles are effects that I would like to include and combine more in my future work. I could link his work in relation to nature and the metaverse with my own approaches.
References
Anadol, R (2021) Machine Hallucinations: Metaverse. Available at: https://refikanadol.com/works/machine-hallucinations-space-metaverse/ (Accessed: 26 Jan 2022)
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Anadol, R (2021) Machine Hallucinations : Nature Dreams. Available at: https://vimeo.com/453371160 (Accessed: 26 Jan 2022)
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Artechouse (2019) Artist Insight: Refik Anadol | Machine Hallucination. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8et1aGdI0HU (Accessed: 30 Nov 2021)
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Campos, G (2022) Refik Anadol launches metaverse project with AV partners. Available at: https://www.avinteractive.com/markets/visitor-attractions/refik-anadol-launches-metaverse-project-av-partners-11-01-2022/ (Accessed: 26 Jan 2022)
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RAS (2022) Dataland. Available at: https://dataland.art/ (Accessed: 26 Jan 2022)
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