bitforms gallery

b. 1985, Istanbul, Turkey
Lives and wo­rks in Los Angeles, CA

Refik Anadol is a media artist and director born in Istanbul, Turkey. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California, where he owns and operates Refik Anadol Studio. Anadol is a lecturer and researcher for UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts where he obtained a Master of Fine Arts.

As a spatial thinker, Anadol is intrigued by the ways in which the digital age requires the rethinking of a new aesthetic technique and a dynamic perception of space. By embedding media arts into architecture, he proposes the possibility of post-digital architecture in which there are no more imaginary physical realities. Anadol addresses the challenges and the possibilities that the development of enriched immersive environments and ubiquitous computing have imposed on humankind. His body of work explores how the perception and experience of time and space are radically changing now that machines have completely colonized our everyday lives.

Refik Anadol 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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