Refik Anadol Studio unveiled Glacier Dreams at Art Dubai from 1 to 5 March 2023. Commissioned by Swiss Wealth Manager Julius Baer, Glacier Dreams is a groundbreaking new project inspired by the beauty and fragility of the world’s glaciers. In creating this immersive audio-visual installation with an olfactory component, Refik Anadol will utilize glacier visuals from online and institutional archives along with those he personally-collected. With this artwork, RAS is hoping to not only generate poetic experiences but to also use our existing AI tools to contribute to glacier research and raise awareness about climate change and rising sea levels.

Refik Anadol Studio’s first major project in 2023 was Artificial Realities: Coral, which was commissioned by the World Economic Forum in Davos. This site-specific Data Sculpture on display at the WEF 2023 was inspired by the ocean environment and the plight of the coral reefs. The project uses approximately 100 million coral images as raw data and aims to use the potential of both Metaverse and blockchain economies to raise awareness about global climate change.

In Search of the Present is a recurring exhibition concept at EMMA that was first presented in 2016. The exhibitions in the series explore the nature of the present and anticipate future developments through an intuitive artistic process. The show borrows its title from a collection of essays by author Olavi Paavolainen from 1929 in which he explores the experience and identity of humanity in an era of rapid change. The exhibition in autumn 2022 will focus on the relationship between humanity, nature and technology. One of the issues explored by the featured artists is whether technology can help us not only achieve a greater understanding of ourselves but also forge a new non-exploitative relationship with nature. Artists are exceptionally gifted in thinking outside the box, which makes it particularly interesting to turn to them in our search for new ways to see humanity and navigate the challenges of today, such as the climate crisis and algorithmic systems.

Alkazar Dreams — AI Cinema created by using 150 historic Turkish movies / memories of 100 years old theater in İstanbul! 20 channel projectors + 18 channel sound + realtime tracking system with custom software.

The Reel Store's opening exhibition is the UK premiere of Refik Anadol's Machine Memoirs: Space. The product of a long-term collaboration with NASA, the exhibition uses artificial intelligence to reimagine two million publicly available images taken by satellite and telescopes, transporting visitors from the centre of Coventry to the deepest regions of outer space. Machine Memoirs: Space is a 360 degree experience, suitable for the whole family, with a futuristic, awe-inspiring display that captures the beauty and spectacle of space in waves of colour and light. Whether you have an interest in space, are looking to have fun with the family, or want to grab the most instagrammable pictures in Coventry, this is an exhibition not to be missed. Suitable for all ages.

Friends in NYC, you can experiment with our new installations at The Shed for @byUnfinished till 24th. This piece a new public art experiment for collecting our collective dreams for future Project Liberty steps! Realtime #stablediffusion for public art! Open and free for public.

From the team at Zaha Hadid Architects in London: “‘Architecting the Metaverse’ is an immersive art project at the intersection of architecture, art, technology, and artificial intelligence. “It is the result of a six-month collaboration with Refik Anadol Studio and was created as part of the ‘Meta-Horizons: The Future Now’ exhibition at the DDP Design Museum in Seoul, South Korea.” Refik Anadol: “We visualized and experimented with ZHA’s incredible database of architectural documentation by using the most recent multi-model AI algorithms.”

Zorlu PSM celebrates its 10th anniversary with an unforgettable performance by Fazıl Say and Jamal Aliyev! Fazıl Say's "Hayat Ağacı" world premiere will be at Zorlu PSM Turkcell Stage on September 16... World-renowned pianist and composer Fazıl Say will meet the audience with a magnificent concert on September 16 at Zorlu PSM. At the concert, the world premiere of Hayat Ağacı Suite, composed by the artist for cello and piano in 2021 upon the order of Zorlu PSM, will take place. Jamal Aliyev, one of the young talents of the cello, will accompany Fazıl Say on this special night. In addition to the first performance of "Hayat Ağacı", Say's "Dört Şehir" sonata and C. Franck's cello and piano sonata are among the other works to be listened to with their magnificent interpretations. Values ​​and people that have a strong meaning in the existence of the artist; "Hayat Ağacı", that tells about his growth and rooting in his life, memories and intellectual world with unique melodies, is also Fazıl Say's hundredth work. In this sense, the production refers to the past and the future, rooted and powerful symbol of time, that does not give up hope even for a single moment. The chapter titles of the work also have special names that strengthen the theme of the production; "Umut", "Babam Ahmet Say", "Ece", "Annem anısına" ve "Hayat Ağacı"...

Shared our studio’s journey and explained the impact of experiential NFTs in public space!

We obtained all of the data used in the exhibition from publicly available sources – that is, every data set behind the works can be found on the internet. The process began with a regular review of NASA archives. Afterwards, we analyzed and classified the collection of visual data conceptually with the help of machine intelligence and taught the visual memories of each machine to artificial intelligence with the GAN algorithm named StyleGAN2ADA. We were able to create poetic, immersive experiences by combining fluid dynamics algorithms, which we have been using with great enthusiasm in our works for years. Kerim Karaoğlu designed the audio experience in the exhibition also using the same data.

An artist fascinated by memory and the creative potential of machines, Refik Anadol makes data his preferred material and artificial intelligence his principal collaborator. In his artistic practice, he surrounds himself with a team of multidisciplinary artists and researchers to create proteiform installations – 3D sculptures, moving and abstract data frescoes, audiovisual performances. Refik Anadol’s offering for the Centre Pompidou-Metz is the result of the artist’s long-term research projects at the intersection of architecture, environmental data, the aesthetics of probability, and Google’s and NASA’s experiments with artificial intelligence (Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab and AI Quantum Supremacy programmes). This spectacular work is a data sculpture made from over two hundred million publicly available nature-related images that will be displayed on a digital canvas of 10m x 10m, forming a constantly moving 100m2 image. This set of data is processed using a personalised program developed by the Refik Anadol Studio in collaboration with Google AI’s quantum research team, which employs new methods of using data. Thus, artificial intelligence speculates on other appearances of images of nature, within one of the world’s most sophisticated computers, capable of directly using the laws of quantum physics when performing its calculations and thereby generating quantum noise.

Refik Anadol is honored to create a poetic, immersive, and multisensory artwork to commemorate the 750th death anniversary of one of the greatest poets and philosophers in human history. Inspired by Rumi’s multilayered philosophical lens through which he interpreted life and the universe, Rumi Dreams is an AI-based spectacle of light and motion that animates a vast dataset of precious Rumi archives. This dataset, collected with the generous help of Konya Metropolitan Municipality, includes scripts of Masnavi in 19 different languages, more than 180,000 images of dervish lodges, ancient book pages, and documents, and recordings of Sufi music and performances. Anadol and his team process this interdisciplinary dataset that is emblematic of Rumi’s worldview though machine learning algorithms. The resulting data universe becomes the building blocks of machine-generated Rumi Dreams, a unique perspective from which to view Rumi’s poetic universe on an unprecedented scale. Generating a multisensory dynamic performance, Rumi Dreams is a mesmerizing artistic expression of the convergence between the meaning(s) of light, knowledge, and movement, encouraging you to find “your light that lights the world.” “Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.” Rumi

Contemporary art center Palazzo Strozzi opens "Let’s Get Digital!," one of the first and most significant shows in Italy to focus on digital art, May 17, 2022.

Living Architecture: Casa Batlló” will be one of the first NFT of it’s kind that truly connects physical and virtual worlds! For example; currently weather is rainy in Barcelona; dynamic NFT art work will reflect the nature back to itself autonomously as seen in the video!

Data from three different space missions were systematically collected – from ISS, Hubble and MRO telescopes – and analyzed with the help of comprehensive artificial intelligence algorithms. In this part of the exhibition, called the Data Tunnel, the audience is greeted with visuals of the raw data and a look into the analysis processes through which they are transformed into pigments, paintings, and sculptures. These visuals and narratives, which oscillate between abstract and concrete data, simulate the scientific research process behind the exhibition as well as the idea of “being surrounded by data,” one of the main themes of the artistic representation of the Studio’s research.

This groundbreaking immersive exhibition, in collaboration with award-winning media artist and pioneer in the aesthetics of machine intelligence, Refik Anadol, returns to ARTECHOUSE NYC, now with an opportunity to collect immersive experiential NFTs. Commissioned by ARTECHOUSE and created by Refik Anadol, Machine Hallucination: NYC is a time and space exploration into New York City’s past and potential future. This completely immersive exhibition is of New York, by New York and for New York — a fitting tribute to one of the world’s greatest cities and architectural marvels. Exploring New York through the mind of a machine, Machine Hallucination: NYC aims to uncover the ever-changing shape of the city, evoking our collective memory and the ways that new forms of visual representation can alter our perception of this iconic destination. In partnership with Nifty Gateway, this special viewing of Machine Hallucination: NYC, which attracted over 100,000 visitors in its first showing, will also feature an exclusive location drop of exhibition-based experiential NFT art, a collection composed of 1,000 unique NFTs from Anadol available to visitors on-site only at ARTECHOUSE’s New York location.

Commissioned by the NGV, Quantum memories 2020 is Refik Anadol’s most technically and conceptually ambitious work to date. The work explores the opportunities presented by artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and quantum computing to visualise an everchanging large-scale immersive multimedia artwork. Harnessing a dataset drawn from over two hundred million images linked to nature from publicly available internet resources and processed using quantum computing with machine learning algorithms, Anadol’s work uses the data to speculate an alternate dimension of the natural world as a complex cultural entity with memory. The first true quantum artwork created, Anadol’s arresting visuals and accompanying audio are composed in collaboration with a generative algorithm enabled by AI. In taking the data that flows around us as his primary material and the neural network of a quantum mind as his collaborator, Anadol paints with a thinking brush offering us radical visualisations of our digitised memories of the natural realm. By representing the complexity of our collective memory in the largest digital artwork staged by the NGV, the artist encourages us to imagine the beginning of a quantum computerised mind and its immense potential for the future of art and design.

Refik Anadol’s Latent History takes the viewer on a journey through a beautiful, yet thought-provoking work projected on a 55 metre-wide by 3.5 metre-high screen in Fotografiska’s large exhibition hall. It’s a never-before-seen portrayal of Stockholm, as envisioned by machines, using algorithms revealing the hidden history found in archives and old photographs stretching back 150 years. Imagine taking abstract data streams and turning them into a reality. By collecting a huge amount of digital information from different data sources, interpreting them artistically, and then giving them a life, one could present alternative histories that never actually happened. This is life for Refik Anadol. Born in 1985 in Istanbul, Turkey, this multiple award-winning artist, designer and director works with location-specific, digital visual artworks based on datasets, data stream collections and interpretation.

Infinity’ is an immersive environment project by Refik Anadol. Project is an integral part of artist’s ongoing ‘Temporary Immersive Environment Experiments’ which is a research on audio/visual installations by using the state called immersion which is the state of consciousness where an immersant’s awareness of physical self is transformed by being surrounded in an engrossing environment; often artificial, creating a perception of presence in a non-physical world. In this project ‘infinity’ chosen as a concept,a radical effort to deconstruct the framework of this illusory space and transgress the normal boundaries of the viewing experience to set out to transform the conventional flat cinema projection screen into a three dimensional kinetic and architectonic space of visualisation by using contemporary algorithms. Light is the major element in the experiment, used to blur and interconnect the boundaries between the two realms actual/fictional and physical/virtual. It signifies the threshold between the simulacrum space created by the projection technology, and the physical space where the viewer stands. The experiments will discuss the inherent spatial qualities of immersive virtual environments and their effect on the embodied person. Through the presented framework, the experiments intends to question the relativity of perception and how it informs the apprehension of our surroundings. Rather than approaching the medium as a means of escape into some disembodied techno-utopian fantasy, projects sees itself as a means of return, i.e. facilitating a temporary release from our habitual perceptions and culturally biased assumptions about being in the world, to enable us, however momentarily, to perceive ourselves and the world around us freshly.

Virtual Archive (2017) is an installation of a 3D, computer-generated environment that is open to interactive explorations by single-users. Via a virtual reality headset, the user flies through a 3D data point cloud formed by a t-SNE machine learning algorithm, visualizing more than 1,700,000 documents present in SALT Research archive collections. Refik Anadol’s installation is displayed as an extension to the artist’s Archive Dreaming, also commissioned by SALT in 2017. Devised during Anadol’s residency at Google’s Artists and Machine Intelligence, Virtual Archive is a proposal for research possibilities in the immediate future. The user first reaches a data tunnel, which slowly transforms into a navigable 3D t-SNE data cloud. When the cloud settles into a 2D library of archival documents, the user can later move from one object to another and select content for close-up studies as if they were available in a physical environment. Following its initial presentation as part of The Uses of Art: Final Exhibition at SALT Galata, Archive Dreaming was exhibited at the Ars Electronica Festival 2017 under the theme “Artificial Intelligence” last September. Employing machine learning algorithms to search and sort relations among objects in SALT Research archive collections, this user-driven installation enabled new perspectives on the content, and challenged static concepts of the archive; when idle it “dreamed” of unexpected correlations among documents.

Commissioned to work with SALT Research collections, artist Refik Anadol employed machine learning algorithms to search and sort relations among 1,700,000 documents. Interactions of the multidimensional data found in the archives are, in turn, translated into an immersive media installation. Archive Dreaming, which is presented as part of The Uses of Art: Final Exhibition with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union, is user-driven; however, when idle, the installation “dreams” of unexpected correlations among documents. The resulting high-dimensional data and interactions are translated into an architectural immersive space. Shortly after receiving the commission, Anadol was a resident artist for Google’s Artists and Machine Intelligence Program where he closely collaborated with Mike Tyka and explored cutting-edge developments in the field of machine intelligence in an environment that brings together artists and engineers. Developed during this residency, his intervention Archive Dreaming transforms the gallery space on floor -1 at SALT Galata into an all-encompassing environment that intertwines history with the contemporary, and challenges immutable concepts of the archive, while destabilizing archive-related questions with machine learning algorithms. In this project, a temporary immersive architectural space is created as a canvas with light and data applied as materials. This radical effort to deconstruct the framework of an illusory space will transgress the normal boundaries of the viewing experience of a library and the conventional flat cinema projection screen, into a three dimensional kinetic and architectonic space of an archive visualized with machine learning algorithms. By training a neural network with images of 1,700,000 documents at SALT Research the main idea is to create an immersive installation with architectural intelligence to reframe memory, history and culture in museum perception for 21st century through the lens of machine intelligence. SALT is grateful to Google’s Artists and Machine Intelligence program, and Doğuş Technology, ŠKODA, Volkswagen Doğuş Finansman for supporting Archive Dreaming.