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

Visions of A.I. Art From OpenAI’s First Artist in ResidenceIn February, during a three-month stint as OpenAI’s first artist in residence, Alexander Reben gained early access to the start-up’s Sora text-to-video tool, which instantly generates videos up to a minute in length from written or spoken prompts.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

‘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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Siebren Versteeg in Outland: “The Best Digital Art of 2023”Siebren Versteeg’s For a Limited Time, released on Arsnl Art, incorporates the mechanics of blockchain editioning into the artwork itself—and the outputs are both aesthetically compelling and conceptually potent… – Sarah Zucker

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.

The First Museum Retrospective on A.I. Artist Alexander Reben Explores His Playfully Conceptual Creations“AI Am I? Artificial Intelligence as Generated by Alexander Reben” at the California museum brings together deeply conceptual works from across Reben’s practice, which, since about 2012, has seen him co-create alongside A.I.

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.”

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.”

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.

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.”

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.

An Aesthetics of the Absurd for A.I.When asked about whether machines think, the Dutch computer scientist, Edsger Wybe Dijkstra replied: “Does a submarine swim?” Such a reply puts the terms of the question in question.

Marina Zurkow profiled in ART+TECHNOLOGYWe meet artists Olafur Eliasson and Marina Zurkow who are working to help heal the disconnect, developing democratic and expressive tools for storytelling and dialogue that encourage everyday activism.

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.

Public_Public_Address: A Nationwide Virtual ProtestPublic_Public_Address is an ongoing, 24/7, national virtual protest in support of and in solidarity with Black Lives Matter. The ongoing protest stream features video submissions of both supporters who are unable to place themselves at physical risk and those who can protest in person.

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.

“Public Public Address” featured on CNN: This website helps people with illnesses and disabilities participate in Black Lives Matter protestsHigh-profile killings of several Black people by police sparked nationwide protests this summer, with marchers demanding police reform and racial justice. Jason Lazarus, Siebren Versteeg and Stephanie Syjuco founded Public Public Address on September 1 to help people with illnesses and disabilities participate in these Black Lives Matter protests without putting their lives at risk.

‘Email Exhibit! Yours Sincerely, Siebren Versteeg and bitforms’ by Charlotte Kent for CLOTSiebren Versteeg’s In%20Memory is an email; a checklist of speculative objects, a series of links, and a PDF; together creating a daisy-chain as exhibition… bitforms’s webpage for the exhibit provides a space to leave your email address, after which you will receive the email that is the show. It is a charmingly irreverent approach to exhibition possibilities while also quite seriously invigorating our musings on how we might exhibit work digitally.

Mesocosm (Northumberland, UK) by Marina Zurkow: Streaming July 8 – 21, 2020bitforms gallery is proud to present Mesocosm (Northumberland UK) by Marina Zurkow as the third piece in a series of streaming generative artworks, presented in collaboration with Small Data Industries.

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.

Wet Logic reviewed by Louis Bury for Hyperallergic From behind bitforms gallery’s glass facade, an artistic toilet bowl (“Toilet Joke I,” 2020) beckons passers-by into Wet Logic, Sarah Rothberg’s and Marina Zurkow’s digitized meditation on water’s unearthliness.

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.

Siebren Versteeg, In%20Memory, now liveIn In%20Memory, playful references to painting, ready-mades, and installation inquire toward the experience of isolation within our technological present. In effort to participate yet emancipate from the expectation of an artist to create “things,” In%20Memory advances viewing room culture with deep zoom technology while challenging visitors to engage in a meaningful temporal experience. The exhibition is accompanied by an essay by Katie Geha.

Wet Logic, an exhibition by Sarah Rothberg and Marina Zurkow, opens at bitforms galleryWet Logic presents a model of the world organized according to a wet, oceanic ideology rather than a dry, land-based paradigm. This is a world that manifests the circuitous nature of time and the enmeshment of humans to the planet. Rothberg and Zurkow present a series of systems that further human connection to oceans by way of action and imagination.

Marina Zurkow’s exhibition The Thirsty Bird opening at the Contemporary Art Museum St. LouisMarina Zurkow focuses her work on the intersection of nature and culture, offering wry and pointed critiques of this perilously dysfunctional relationship. The Thirsty Bird offers parallel narratives on two essential, yet incompatible elements: oil and water.