Digital Art Star Refik Anadol Is Opening the World’s First A.I. Museum
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- 04 Oct 2024
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Refik Anadol, a renowned digital artist, is set to open the world's first artificial intelligence (A.I.) art museum, Dataland, in Los Angeles in 2025. The museum will provide a permanent home for Anadol's A.I. works, which have been commissioned by arts institutions for over a decade.
Dataland will be housed in the Grand L.A., a mixed-use development designed by Frank Gehry, and will join a growing cultural corridor in Downtown Los Angeles. The museum will be designed by architecture firm Gensler and sustainable development consultancy Arup, and will partner with Google to find energy sources other than fossil fuels.
The first exhibitions at Dataland will be created through Large Nature Model, an open-source tool that pulls in data collected by institutions such as the Smithsonian Institution and London's Natural History Museum. As a private museum, shows will be ticketed, and additional revenue may be drawn through the sale of digital artworks.
Anadol's art world breakthrough came in 2022 with his work "Unsupervised" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which generated imagery based on the museum's collection of 138,000 artworks. He has also applied his formula to images of space captured from the International Space Station and data on flora and fauna from the world's rainforests.
The opening of Dataland reaffirms Anadol's considerable cachet and the appeal of his particular brand of algorithmic art. As a pioneer in the field of A.I. art, Anadol has been at the forefront of creating spectacle out of gargantuan datasets.
