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Refik Anadol

Refik Anadol 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 and paintings, 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.

The artist is the recipient of a number of awards and prizes including Microsoft Research’s Best Vision Award, German Design Award, UCLA Art+Architecture Moss Award, University of California Institute for Research in the Arts Award, SEGD Global Design Awards, and Google’s Art and Machine Intelligence Artist Residency Award. His site-specific audio/visual performances have been featured at iconic landmarks, museums and festivals worldwide, such as Walt Disney Concert Hall, Hammer Museum, International Digital Arts Biennial Montreal, Ars Electronica Festival, l’Usine; Genève, Arc De Triomf, Zollverein; SANAA’s School of Design Building, santralistanbul Contemporary Art Center, Outdoor Vision Festival, Istanbul Design Biennial, Sydney City Art, and Lichtrouten, among many others.

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November 13, 2024Art Basel

Modern Patrons: Refik AnadolThe leading new media artist leverages the power of Web3 technologies to support and uplift the Amazon’s Yawanawá tribe

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May 16, 2024ArtNews

An Inside Look at How Refik Anadol and Digital Art Were Finally Welcomed into MoMA and the Traditional Art WorldRefik Anadol had emerged from the same digital art communities that nurtured the careers of artists like Mike Winkelmann; however, the Turkish-American artist had three fine art degrees and a thriving studio practice with a dozen employees by the time he started selling NFTs.

Claudia Hart Russian Roulette (A Game of Life and Death) Second Prize 3.0, 2024 Pure pigment suspended in resin, acrylic and gouache on panel 24 x 30 x 2 1/2 in / 61 x 76.2 x 6.3 cm

March 16, 2024Design Boom

BITFORMS GALLERY EXHIBITED A GROUP SHOW THAT EXEMPLIFIES NEW MEDIA ART A pioneer and champion of new media, digital and internet-based art, New York-based gallery bitforms presented the works of Ellie Pritts, Claudia Hart, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Manfred Mohr, Jonathan Monaghan and Refik Anadol.

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March 15, 2024Nvidia

Live from GTC: A Conversation with Refik AnadolRefik Anadol in a recorded conversation with Richard Kerris, VP of Developer Relations, NVIDIA. Anadol and Kerris discuss the artist’s Large Nature Model.

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February 26, 2024Forbes

http://Web3 Travel Guides: Future Horizons, Art Dubai Digital And BeyondOne of the longest-running and most well respected new media art galleries, bitforms represents established, mid-career, and emerging artists critically engaged with new technologies, offering an incisive perspective on the fields of digital, internet, and time-based art forms.

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February 20, 2024The Economist

Refik Anadol’s use of AI has made him the artist of the momentMr Anadol, a 38-year-old Turk who lives in Los Angeles, is riding widespread public interest in artificial intelligence to become the most visible digital artist of his generation. His work speaks to the innovation and anxieties of the current moment.

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February 16, 2024Design Boom

‘This AI model will be the voice of nature,’ Refik Anadol“It’s a whole new perspective as nature is a much different ecosystem. It’s not about finding information or using human constructed reality — which we love. But nature needs new ways of perceiving, recording, and preserving through AI and data. I’m dreaming that it is a technology that we can trust, rely on, and almost use like a teacher of nature.”

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February 1, 2024Fad Magazine

REFIK ANADOL TO PRESENT HIS LARGEST INSTITUTIONAL SOLO EXHIBITION IN THE UK Serpentine is to present Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive, an exhibition of new and recent works by internationally renowned artist, technologist, and pioneer in artificial intelligence arts, Refik Anadol.

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January 28, 2024The Art Newspaper

Going big: digital artists who show on a grand scale at immersive institutionsMarco Brambilla, the London-based film-maker and digital artist, made a version of his Hollywood epic Heaven’s Gate for Outernet, London, in January 2023, and King Size, a work about the rise of Las Vegas and the death of Elvis, at Sphere.

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January 22, 2024Artsy

Art SG highlights Singapore’s Art Market Momentum“This fair is more experimental with showing new media art than bigger more established fairs,” said the gallery’s founder and director Steven Sacks.

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January 18, 2024NBC News

At Davos, an art installation looks to bring people closer to nature with a little help from AI“Living Archive: Nature” is the creation of Refik Anadol, a Turkish-born, Los Angeles-based media artist, who said the piece is meant to move AI beyond its human-based training to bring people closer to nature and bring urgency to the need to protect it.

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January 15, 2024Art Basel

Manfred Mohr, Refik Anadol, Quayola, Casey Reas at Art SGApplying what he has described as ‘programmed expressionism,’ Mohr is known for creating striking drawings using plotters, mechanical devices that hold a pen that sketches lines (generated by algorithms) on paper. His recent sculptural experiments, computer-generated algorithmic aluminum wall structures, will be a highlight of bitforms’ booth.

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January 15, 2024ArtNet News

Nanjing’s Deji Art Museum Boasts Works by Monet and Beeple. Is It a New Beacon for Asia’s Art Scene?Upon visiting the museum, one might think The Deji Art Museum’s main focus is on digital art, as currently, two pieces by the highly acclaimed new media artist Refik Anadol, Melting Memories – Engram – Box and Quantum Memories Probability, are prominently displayed at the museum’s entrance.

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December 18, 2023Artnet News

Refik Anadol: Defining Artworks of 2023 on ArtNewsRefik Anadol’s Unsupervised – Machine Hallucinations – MoMA (2022), a generative artwork by arguably the premier digital artist of the moment, uses the museum’s visual archive to produce a machine-learning model that interprets and reimagines images of artworks in MoMA’s collection.

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September 26, 2023Scientific American

Does the First Amendment Confer a ‘Right to Compute’? The Future of AI May Depend on ItSince late 2022, visitors to New York’s Museum of Modern Art have been mesmerized by Refik Anadol’s 24-foot by 24-foot artificial intelligence–generated artwork “Unsupervised.”

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September 20, 2023Fast Company

Refik Anadol is betting his AI art can help build a better world“Artificial intelligence is a mirror for humanity,” says the Los Angeles-based artist Refik Anadol. “It’s all about who we are as humans.”

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September 11, 2023Surface Magazine

In Las Vegas, Refik Anadol’s Biggest Undertaking YetThe Turkish-American artist is inaugurating Las Vegas’s new Sphere with his swirling, real-time generated digital collages of space and nature.

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September 6, 2023Arch Paper

Refik Anadol lights up MSG’s Las Vegas sphere with collages of outer space and natureLast week Exosphere featured its first artist commission Machine Hallucinations: Sphere by Refik Anadol. “This opportunity aligns perfectly with our studio’s long-term mission of embedding media arts into architecture to create living architectural pieces that are in constant interaction with their environments.”

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August 31, 2023LA Times

The latest canvas for Refik Anadol’s AI-generated art? The new Sphere in Las VegasAnadol will take over the exterior of the soon-to-debut Sphere in Las Vegas, a glowing, 366-foot-tall, globe-shaped events venue that will open Sept. 29 with a series of U2 concerts. The exterior of the futuristic-looking building, or the “Exosphere,” as it’s being referred to, is a 580,000-square-foot programmable LED screen that will be used as a 360-degree canvas by rotating artists.

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December 26, 2020NGV Melbourne: YouTube

Watch an interview with Refik Anadol on his “Quantum Memories,” featured in the NGV Melbourne TriennialRefik Anadol’s Quantum memories, 2020, draws upon a dataset of more than two hundred million nature-related images from the internet, which are processed using quantum computing software developed by the Google AI Quantum research team in combination with a supercomputer that has been programmed with machine-learning algorithms.

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October 6, 2020Patch

Quayola selected for Texas commission, “Pioneer Tower Public Art Project”Renowned new media artist Quayola will create a projection mapping video interpreting Fort Worth’s nature using high-precision 3D laser scanning and digital tracking systems projected on all four sides of Pioneer Tower.

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April 7, 2020Artechouse

ARTECHOUSE Q&A: Refik Anadol“Arts has this quality of imagination. Artists are always inspired by the technology around them, they always try to use them in the maximum capacity of their imagination,” notes artist, Refik Anadol, the visionary behind Infinite Space and Machine Hallucinations.

Can Computers Dream? Refik Anadol Explores The Future of Artificial Intelligence

December 10, 2019Elephant

Can Computers Dream? Refik Anadol Explores The Future of Artificial IntelligenceFrom data sharing to hyperreality, Refik Anadol’s new installation at Light Art Space explores how our world will transform as humans and computers come closer together. Words by Alice Bucknell.