Refik Anadol

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About

Refik Anadol (b. 1985, Istanbul, Turkey) is a media artist, director, and pioneer in the aesthetics of machine intelligence. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California, where he owns and operates Refik Anadol Studio and RAS LAB, the Studio’s research practice centered around discovering and developing trailblazing approaches to data narratives and artificial intelligence. Anadol is also a lecturer for UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts from which he obtained his second Master of Fine Arts.

Anadol’s body of work addresses the challenges, and the possibilities, that ubiquitous computing has imposed on humanity, and what it means to be a human in the age of AI. He explores how the perception and experience of time and space are radically changing now that machines dominate our everyday lives. Anadol is intrigued by the ways in which the digital age and machine intelligence allow for a new aesthetic technique to create enriched immersive environments that offer a dynamic perception of space.

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Machine Hallucinations — NFT Collections by Refik Anadol

Refik Anadol (b. 1985, Istanbul, Turkey) is a media artist, director and pioneer in the aesthetics of data and machine intelligence. His body of work locates creativity at the intersection of humans and machines. In taking the data that flows around us as the primary material and the neural network of a computerized mind as a collaborator, Anadol paints with a thinking brush, offering us radical visualizations of our digitized memories and expanding the possibilities of architecture, narrative, and the body in motion. Anadol’s site-specific AI data sculptures, live audio/visual performances, and immersive installations take many forms, while encouraging us to rethink our engagement with the physical world, its temporal and spatial dimensions, and the creative potential of machines.

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Melting Memories - NFT EEG Data Sculptures and Paintings

Refik Anadol’s latest project on the materiality of remembering. Minting Memories offered new insights into the representational possibilities emerging from the intersection of advanced technology and contemporary art. By minting EEG data that translate the elusive process of memory retrieval into data collections, the NFT exhibition immersed collectors in Anadol’s creative vision of “recollection” in the age of machine intelligence. The research started in 2017 in collaboration with Dr. Adam Gazzaley of UCSF Neuroscape Lab.“Science states meanings; art expresses them,” writes American philosopher John Dewey and draws a curious distinction between what he sees as the principal modes of communication in both disciplines. In Melting Memories, Refik Anadol’s expressive statements provide the viewer with revealing and contemplative artworks that will generate responses to Dewey’s thesis.

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Machine Hallucinations - MRO Dreams - Triptych A / B / C

Machine Hallucinations - Hubble Dreams offers a visualization of celestial structures through the mind of a machine. Each iteration of Hubble Dreams is a unique latent walk through the invisible connections between various projections of celestial realities that artificial intelligence reveals. Using machine learning and a generative neural network trained on real pictures of Hubble Telescope, the work imagines the possibility of a universe that would provide further texture to the perception of our own. Data paintings in Hubble Dreams series represent past space explorations with machine-generated dreams based on a dataset of satellite imagery from the Hubble telescope provided by NASA. The dataset is then used to teach a computer to understand and generate hallucinatory images of Galaxy. Over 800 thousand images train a generative adversarial network (GAN) how to dream and imagine the topology of our galaxy.

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