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Biography

Refik Anadol (b. 1985, Istanbul, Turkey) is an internationally renowned media artist and pioneer in the aesthetics of data and machine intelligence. He is the Director and co-founder of Refik Anadol Studio in Los Angeles and teaching at UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts from which he obtained a Master of Fine Arts. Refik Anadol Studio brings together a globally diverse team of designers, architects, data scientists, and researchers—originating from 10 countries and fluent in 12 languages—who share a deep commitment to inclusion, equity, and cross-cultural collaboration at every stage of artistic production. Anadol is also the co-founder of Dataland, the world’s first Museum of AI Arts. Opening at The Grand LA in 2025, Dataland promises unparalleled, multisensory experiences at a scale and quality never before realized with real-time interactions between museum and audience.

Refik Anadol’s work locates creativity at the intersection of humans and machines. Taking the data that surrounds us as primary material, and the neural network of a computerized mind as a collaborator, Anadol offers us radical visualizations of our digitized memories and expands the possibilities of interdisciplinary arts. Anadol’s AI data paintings and sculptures, live audio/visual performances, and immersive installations take many forms, while encouraging us to rethink our engagement with the physical world, public art, decentralized networks, and the creative potential of AI. Entire buildings come to life. Floors, walls, and ceilings disappear into infinity. Breathtaking aesthetics take shape from large swaths of data, and what was once invisible to the human eye becomes visible, offering the audience a new perspective on, and narrative of their environments.

The primary thread that runs throughout Anadol’s groundbreaking visualizations is the unseen world of data. For Unsupervised at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Anadol posed an alternate understanding of modern art by transforming the metadata of MoMA’s vast collection into a work that continuously generates new forms in real-time. For Quantum Memories at the National Gallery of Victoria, 200 million photos of Earth and its landscapes, oceans and atmosphere were used to visualize an alternate reality of nature. Archival photographic data of our universe from the archives of NASA/JPL was the driving force behind Machine Memoirs: Space, Istanbul’s most visited exhibition ever. Machine Hallucination: NYC harnessed 113 million publicly available images of New York City to envision the near future of a storied city. For WDCH Dreams, 100 years of the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s digital archives were tapped to inspire the visuals projected onto Frank Gehry’s iconic building. For Melting Memories, Anadol explored the materiality of remembering by transforming EEG data—capturing neural activity associated with memory recall—into data paintings, augmented data sculptures, and light projections, offering new insights into the representational possibilities emerging from the intersection of advanced technology and contemporary art. At Serpentine Galleries in London, Anadol’s Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive featured works Artificial Realities: Rainforest and Artificial Realities: Coral, that utilized the Large Nature Model (LNM), an AI model developed by Refik Anadol Studio and trained on approximately 135 million images of nature and extensive datasets of flora, fungi, and fauna from over 16 rainforest locations globally. For the Intuit Dome in Los Angeles, Anadol’s Living Arena transformed diverse data sources—including live weather and flight information, Clippers’ historic player tracking, and images of California’s national parks—into a multi-channel aesthetic experience presented on a monumental LED screen. At the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Anadol’s Living Architecture: Gehry utilized the Large Architecture Model (LAM), a custom-built AI model trained over several months on a vast archive of open-access imagery, sketches, and blueprints from Frank Gehry’s works. This AI-driven system transformed the architect’s signature forms into vibrant AI Data Sculptures.

Refik Anadol ’s global projects have received a number of awards and prizes including TIME100 AI Impact Award, UCLA’s 2024 Edward A. Dickinson Alumnus of the Year Award, the Lorenzo il Magnifico Lifetime Achievement Award for New Media Art, Microsoft Research’s Best Vision Award, iF Gold Award, D&AD Pencil Award, German Design Award, UCLA Art+Architecture Moss Award, Columbia University’s Breakthrough in Storytelling Award, University of California Institute for Research in the Arts Award, SEGD Global Design Award, LOOP Design Award and Google’s Artists and Machine Intelligence Artist Residency Award.

Anadol’s works have been featured at iconic landmarks, museums, galleries and festivals worldwide, such as MoMA, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Serpentine Galleries, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Pinakothek der Moderne, EMMA Museum, Art Basel, Haus der elektronischen Künste, Kunsthalle Praha, Arken Museum, Palazzo Strozzi, Casa Batlló, National Gallery of Victoria, Museum of the Future Dubai, Walt Disney Concert Hall, World Economic Forum, Venice Architecture Biennale – La Biennale di Venezia, Hammer Museum, Jeffrey Deitch, Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Daejeon Museum of Art, Florence Biennale, OFFF Festival, International Digital Arts Biennial Montreal, Ars Electronica Festival, The Sphere, The Kennedy Center, Intuit Dome, Arc De Triomf, Istanbul Modern, Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul Design Biennial, and ZKM | Center for Art and New Media, among many others.

Refik Anadol Studio has been a pioneering force in the realm of blockchain-based media art, consistently exploring the intersection of advanced technology, data aesthetics, and digital ownership. Since launching its first digital collectible in 2021, the studio has released over a dozen NFT collections that extend its data-driven visual language into the Web3 space. Early landmark projects include Machine Hallucinations – Space: Metaverse, presented in collaboration with Sotheby’s, which introduced the first immersive NFT in conjunction with a physical exhibition in Hong Kong. In a historic moment, Living Architecture: Casa Batlló—inspired by Antoni Gaudí’s iconic building—became the studio’s first artwork auctioned by Christie’s and the only NFT included in the 21st Century Evening Sale, standing alongside physical works by artists such as Banksy and Jeff Koons. Displayed at Rockefeller Plaza and simultaneously projected onto Casa Batlló’s façade in Barcelona, the project was seen by over 50,000 spectators and set new benchmarks for digital art visibility and cultural impact. Beyond technological innovation, Anadol’s NFT practice has consistently championed social impact. To date, Refik Anadol Studio has raised over $10 million through NFT sales for charitable organizations including St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the Alzheimer’s Foundation, and UNICEF. In 2023, the Winds of Yawanawá NFT collection, created in close collaboration with the Yawanawá community of the Amazon, raised $3 million to support Indigenous cultural and environmental preservation and build the first museum in Amazonia. Biome Lumina, Dataland’s founding digital collection created by Refik Anadol Studio, is a series of 1,000 unique living paintings on the blockchain, inviting collectors into a dynamic exchange via a generative AI interface and immersive soundscapes based on live atmospheric and ecological conditions.

A pioneer in his field, and the first to use artificial intelligence in a public artwork, Anadol has partnered with teams at Google, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Apple, Intel, IBM, NASA/JPL, Siemens, Epson, MIT, UCLA, Harvard University, Imperial College, Stanford University, and UCSF, to apply the latest, cutting-edge technology, science and research to his work.

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Exhibitions

2025 —

  • Large Nature Model : Coral, Paris AI Action Summit, Grand Palais, Paris, France
  • Winds of Yawanawa : AI Data Sculpture, Yawanawa Sacred Village, Acre, Brazil
  • Glacier Dreams: AI Data Sculpture, Kunsthaus Zürich Museum, Zürich Switzerland
  • Opening Ceremony of WEF 2025: AI Data Sculpture, World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland

2024 —

  • Living Archive : Echoes of the Earth, Futura Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
  • Rumi Dreams : AI Data Sculpture, Center for Modern and Contemporary Art, Deberecen, Hungary
  • Gaudí Dreams : AI Data Sculpture, Casa Batlló, Barcelona, Spain
  • Inner Portraits : AI Data Sculpture, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  • Dvorak Dreams, Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, USA
  • Echoes of the Earth : Living Archive, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK
  • Living Arena, Intuit Dome, Inglewood, CA, USA
  • Winds of Yawanawa : AI Data Sculpture, PIP Seoul, Korea
  • Machine Hallucinations – LNM, Google I/O, Mountain View, CA, USA
  • Large Nature Model : Living Art, NVIDIA GTC, San Jose, CA, USA
  • Living Archive : Echoes of the Earth, Serpentine, London, UK
  • Winds of Yawanawa : AI Data Sculpture, World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
  • Living Paintings : Nature, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • Natural Paintings, Kanazawa 21st Contemporary Art Museum, Japan

2023 —

  • Machine Hallucinations : Sphere, The Sphere, Las Vegas, USA
  • Unsupervised – MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, USA
  • Machine Hallucinations – Nature Dreams, SFMoMA, Google Cloud Next, San Francisco, USA
  • Dvorak Dreams, Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
  • Sense of Healing : AI Data Sculpture, Seoul, Korea
  • Machine Hallucinations – Nature Dreams, Google Camp, Sicily, Italy
  • Winds of Yawanawa : AI Data Sculpture, Mykonos, Greece
  • Bosphorus – AI Data Sculpture, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Unseen Intelligence, Midtown Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
  • Neural Paintings, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  • Mumbai Dreams, JIO World Center, Mumbai, India
  • Glacier Dreams, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
  • Ipotesi Metaverso, Palazzo Cipolla, Rome, Italy
  • Machine Hallucinations – Nature Dreams, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • The Nature Series, Moco Museum, Barcelona, Spain
  • Artificial Realities : Coral, World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
  • Glacier Dreams, ArtScience Museum, Singapore
  • Metamorphosis – Immersive AI Data Sculpture, New York City, NY, USA
  • Living Paintings, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Glacier Dreams, Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE
  • Machine Dreams – Riyadh, JAX, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • Metamorphosis, Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum Madrid, Spain

2022 —

  • Unsupervised – MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY,USA
  • Machine Hallucinations Nature Dreams – AI Data Sculpture, EMMA Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland
  • Alcazar Dreams – Immersive AI Data Sculpture, HOPE Alkazar, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Tree of Life – Realtime AI AV Performance, Zorlu PSM, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Serpenti Metamorphisis – Immersive AI Data Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
  • Unfinished – Dreams / Stable Diffusion, The Shed, New York City, NY,USA
  • Pinakothek Dreams – AI Data Sculpture, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
  • Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch – 100 Years Exhibition, Miami, Florida, USA
  • Sense of Healing – AI Data Sculpture, UNICEF Gala, Capri, Italy
  • Quantum Memories – Haus der elektronischen Künste – HEK, Basel, Switzerland
  • Sense of Healing – AI Data Sculpture, AURORA, St. Tropez, France
  • Architecting The Metaverse – Zaha Hadid Architects – DDP, Seoul, Korea
  • Living Architecture – Casa Batlló, Barcelona, Spain
  • Rumi Dreams – AI Data Sculpture, Ataturk Culture Center, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Machine Hallucinations – Renaissance Dreams, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
  • Quantum Memories, SOMA Onassis Exhibition, Athens, Greece
  • Bosphorus – AI Data Sculpture, Brixen Light Festival, Germany
  • Infinity Room, Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity at Kunsthalle – Praha. Prague, Czech Republic
  • Beethoven – Missa Solemnis – Philadelphia Orchestra, Philadelphia, PA, USA
  • Machine Memoirs : Space, Eternal Artspace (MUTEK) – Tokyo, Japan
  • Ligeti – Paradigms, San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco, CA, USA
  • Machine Memoirs : Space, Coventry, UK
  • Industrial Dreams – Futur21, Henrichshütte Hattingen, Hattingen, Germany

2021 —

  • Unsupervised – Machine Hallucinations – MoMA, NFT Exhibition on FeralFile
  • Machine Hallucinations – Space Dreams, World Conference on Creative Economy, Dubai, UAE
  • Machine Hallucinations – Coral Dreams, Art Basel Miami, Faena Beach, Florida, US
  • Black Sea : Data Sculpture- Hyper Perspective: Technology + Art Exhibition, Qingdao, China
  • Space : Data Tunnel, Art for the Future Biennale, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
  • Serpenti – Metamorphosis – Milan, Italy
  • Quantum Memories – SemiPermanent – Abu Dhabi, UAE
  • Black Sea : Data Sculpture, Hyper Perspective: Technology + Art Exhibition, Qingdao, China
  • Renaissance Dreams – 180 The Strand, London, UK
  • Machine Hallucinations – NYC – Unfinished, Project Liberty, New York, USA
  • Sense of Space Connectome + Molecular Architecture – Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
  • Seeing the Invisible – AR Exhibition, Global
  • Pioneer Tower Dreams – Public Art for Fort Worth, Texas, USA
  • In the Mind of Gaudí – Casa Batlló, Barcelona, Spain
  • Quantum – bitforms Gallery, New York City, New York, USA
  • Sense of Heritage – Hennessy HQ, Cognac, France
  • ISS Dreams – Resonant Media – Possibilities of 8K Visualization – Ars Electronica + NHK, Tokyo, Japan
  • Renaissance Dreams – M.E.E.T, Milano, Italy
  • Machine Memoirs : Space, Pilevneli Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Machine Hallucinations : NVIDIA GTC AI Art Gallery, NVIDIA GTC 2021, Virtual
  • Seoul Haemong II, DDP Building, Seoul, Korea

2020 —

  • Quantum Memories – National Gallery of Victoria 2020 Triennial, Melbourne, Australia
  • Metamorphosis Returns – Machine Hallucinations, Seoul, Korea
  • Distant Arcades – Machine Hallucinations – Nature Dreams, MUTEK, Montreal, Canada
  • Melting Memories – Engram, Images Vevey Art Festival, Switzerland
  • Machine Hallucinations : NVIDIA GTC AI Art Gallery, NVIDIA GTC 2020, Virtual
  • Melting Memories – Engram, Taipei Digital Art Festival,Taipei, Taiwan
  • Machine Hallucinations – Nature Dreams, Beyond Film Festival, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Digital Dreams, Kurhaus, Baden-Baden, Germany
  • NEAR + FUTURES + QUASI + WORLDS, STATE Studio, Berlin, Germany
  • Melting Memories – Engram, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Norway
  • Melting Memories – Engram, Neurones, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  • Infinite Space, Artechouse, Miami, FL, USA

2019 —

  • Machine Hallucinations – Earth ISS, SIGGRAPH Asia 2019, Brisbane, Australia
  • Winds of Shenzhen, 40 Years of Humanizing Technology – Ars Electronica, Shenzhen, China
  • Machine Hallucinations – Earth ISS, IEEE Visap 2019, Vancouver, Canada
  • Bosphorus, les Garages Numériques, Brussels, Belgium
  • Melting Memories, Open Codes, Azkuna Zentroa, Spain
  • Infinity Room, Daejeon Museum of Arts, Daejeon, South Korea
  • Machine Hallucinations – Mars, AS-Helix, National Museum of China, Beijing, China
  • Archive Dreaming, AS-Helix, National Museum of China, Beijing, China
  • Neuro Space, Society of Neuroscience, Chicago, IL, USA
  • Bopshorus, Les Garages Numeriques, Brussels, Belgium
  • Melting Memories, Volvo Art Session, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Infinity Room, Volvo Art Session, Zürich, Switzerland
  • Melting Memories, Florence Biennale, Florence, Italy
  • Infinite Space, Artechouse, Miami, FL, USA
  • Machine Hallucination, Artechouse, New York City, NY, USA
  • Latent History, Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Infinite Space, Artechouse, Washington, DC, USA
  • Macau Currents: Data Paintings, Art Macao: International Art Exhibition, Macao
  • Archive Dreaming, Symbiosis – Asia Digital Art Exhibition, Beijing, China
  • Machine Hallucination – Study II, Hermitage Museum, Moscow, RUS
  • Memoirs from Latent Space, New Human Agenda, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Melting Memories – Engram – LEV Festival, Gijón, Spain
  • Machine Hallucination – Study I, Bitforms Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Infinity Room – Dataland, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Bosphorus, Pilevneli Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Infinity Room – Dataland, Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

2018 —

  • Melting Memories, Species and Beyond, Kikk Festival, Belgium
  • WDCH Dreams, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  • Melting Memories, Open Codes, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Melting Memories, Pilevneli Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Infinity Room / New Edition, New Zealand Festival, Wellington, New Zealand
  • Virtual Archive, SALT Galata, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Liminality V1.0, International Art Projects, Hildesheim, Germany
  • Infinity Room / New Edition, Kaneko Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
  • The Invisible Body : Data Paintings, Sven-Harrys Museum, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Data Sculpture Series, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, South Korea
  • 1-2-3 Data Exhibition, Paris, EDF, France
  • Infinity Room, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, USA
  • Infinity Room, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, USA

2017 —

  • Infinity Room / New Edition, MeConvention, Frankfurt, Germany
  • Archive Dreaming, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
  • Wind of Linz, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
  • Infinity Room / New Edition, Beijing, China
  • Archive Dreaming, SALT Galata, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Infinity Room / New Edition, Athens, Greece
  • Heterotopia, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Infinity Room / New Edition, SXSW, Austin, TX

2016 —

  • Warhol X Anadol, Young Projects, Los Angeles, USA
  • Radical Atoms, Ars Electronica – Computer Animation Festival, Linz, Austria
  • Infinity Room, The Conference, Malmö, Sweden
  • Infinity Room, TAG Festival, Mexico City, Mexico
  • MultipliCITY – Victor Vasarely, Fondation Vasarely, Paris, France
  • Cavity InfoComm, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
  • Infinity Room Mapping Festival, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Infinity Room VIA Festival, Paris, France
  • Infinity Room EXIT Festival, Paris, France

2015 —

  • Infinity Room Day For Night, Houston, Texas, USA
  • Cavity Monochrome, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Liminal Room Istanbul Light Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
  • SIGGRAPH ASIA 2015 Art Gallery, Kobe, Japan
  • Expected Port City Talks / Istanbul-Antwerp, Europalia, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Wavelengths Digital Turkey Exhibition, Europalia, Antwerp, Belgium
  • Infinity Room Artnivo, Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
  • SIGGRAPH 2015 : Electronic Theatre, Los Angeles, USA
  • Ars Electronica – Computer Animation Festival, Linz, Austria
  • The New Creativity: Man and Machines, MAK, Los Angeles, USA
  • Digital Couture / Epson, Industria SuperStudio, New York, USA
  • Waves, Blok Art Space, Istanbul, Turkey

2014 —

  • Cavity, RH Contemporary Art Gallery, New York, USA
  • Algo-Rhythms, Sonos-Studio, Los Angeles, USA
  • Adobe Creative Cloud Mosaic Project, New York, USA
  • UCLA DMA Media Arts MFA Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
  • Presentism: Light as Material, Young Projects, Los Angeles, USA
  • VitrA Contemporary Architecture Series: Dreams to Reaalities Istanbul Modern, Istanbul

2013 —

  • Parallel Threads, Ekavart Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Prefix, Media Arts MFA Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
  • Incidence, UCLA DMA MFA Group Show, Design Matters Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
  • The Active Apparatus and Liminal Landscapes, Young Projects, Los Angeles, USA

2012 —

  • Istanbul Design Biennial, istanbulmodern, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Sceptical Interventions, Pilevneli Projects, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Istanbul Summer Exhibition, Antrepo 5, Sanat Limani, Istanbul

2011 —

  • Minus Feld, American Hospital, “Operation Room”, Istanbul

2010 —

  • Human Landscapes, Goethe Institut&Contretype, Brussels, Belgium
  • Spagat, Marta Herford Museum, Herford, Germany
  • Untitled II, ULG, Liége, Belgium
  • Track 09, ÇSM – santralistanbul, Istanbul

2009 —

  • Untitled, Galeri 1 – santralistanbul, Istanbul
  • Academy Meets Photokina, Photokina, Köln, Germany

2008 —

  • Track 08, Contemporary Art Center – santralistanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
Exhibitions
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A/V Performances
  • 2025 —
      • Opening Ceremony of WEF 2025: AI Data Sculpture, World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland
      • Winds of Yawanawa : AI Data Sculpture, Yawanawa Sacred Village, Acre, Brazil
      • Large Nature Model : Coral, Paris AI Action Summit, Grand Palais, Paris, France
  • 2024 —
      • Echoes of the Earth : Living Archive, Futura Seoul, Korea
      • Large Nature Model : Living Art, NVIDIA GTC, San Jose, CA, USA
      • Living Archive : Nature, World Economic Forum Opening, Davos, Switzerland
      • Echoes of the Earth : Living Archive, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK

    2023 —

        • Living Architecture – Casa Batlló, Barcelona, Spain
        • Data Portal : Nature, COP 28, Dubai, UAE
        • Glacier Dreams – Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
        • Living Paintings, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
        • In the Mind of Gaudí – Casa Batlló, Barcelona, Spain

    2022 —

        • Living Architecture – Casa Batlló, Barcelona, Spain
        • Tree of Life – Realtime AI AV Performance, Zorlu PSM, Istanbul, Turkey
        • Beethoven – Missa Solemnis – Philadelphia Orchestra, Philadelphia, PA, USA
        • Ligeti – Paradigms, San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco, CA, USA
        • Machine Memoirs : Space, Coventry, UK

    2021 —

        • Sense of Space – Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
        • In the Mind of Gaudí – Casa Batlló, Barcelona, Spain
        • Pioneer Tower Dreams – Public Art for Fort Worth, Texas, USA
        • Sense of Heritage – Hennessy HQ, Cognac, France
        • Machine Memoirs : Space, Pilevneli Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

    2020 —

        • Machine Hallucinations – Nature Dreams, Beyond Film Festival, Karlsruhe, Germany

    2019 —

        • Seoul Haemong, DDP, Seoul, Korea
        • Latent Being, Kraftwerk, Berlin Germany
        • Machine Hallucination, Artechouse NYC, New York City, USA

    2018 —

        • WDCH Dreams, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA, USA
        • Schumann’s Das Paradies und Peri, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA, USA
        • Melting Memories, Pilevneli Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

    2017 —

        • Infinity Room / New Edition, MeConvention, Frankfurt, Germany
        • Archive Dreaming, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
        • Infinity Room / New Edition, Beijing, China
        • E/Space, Santa Monica, CA, USA

    2016 —

        • Data Cloth Broad Art Center, Los Angeles, USA
        • Cavity InfoComm 2016, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

    2015 —

        • Infinity Room Day For Night, Houston, Texas, USA
        • Liminal Eoom Istanbul Light Festival, Istanbul, Turkey
        • Erik Satie’s Vexations UCLA Ostin Rehearsal Room, Los Angeles, USA
        • Infinity Room Artnivo, Istanbul, Turkey

    2014 —

        • Visions of America: Amériques LA Phil, Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA, USA
        • Tree of Life, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
        • Algo-Rhythms, Sonos-Studio, Los Angeles, USA
        • The Aether Project, IDEAS, Los Angeles, USA

    2013 —

        • Semaphore, LichtRouten, Lüdenscheid, Germany
        • Liminality, Temporary Immersive Environments, Los Angeles, USA

    2012 —

        • Peripheral, Temporary Immersive Environments, Los Angeles, USA
        • Highlights, Urban Prototyping:SF, San Francisco, USA
        • Augmented Structures v2.0, Istanbul Design Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
        • Epiphaneia, Montreal Design Biennial, Montreal, Canada
        • Legorreta Alive, SantaFe Art and Design Universty, New Mexico, USA

    2011 —

        • Augmented Structures v1.0, Yapı Kredi Kültür ve Sanat Merkezi, Istanbul, Turkey
        • Arc de Triomf, Barcelona, Spain
        • Cerha Momentum, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria

    2010 —

        • MRO, Tabakfabrik – Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria
        • Quadrangle, Zollverein – Ruhr
        • European Capital of Culture, Essen, Germany

    2009 —

      • Quadrature, Contemporary Art Center – santralistanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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Talks / Lectures

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2021 —

2020 —

      • Art In the Age of Machine Intelligence, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, UK
      • Space In the Mind of a Machine, TED Talk 2020, Virtual Main Stage
      • Closing the Gap – Dutch Design Week 2020, Amsterdam, Netherland
      • World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) – AI Lab, Geneva, Switzerland
      • Synesthetic Architecture, Ars Electronica Festival – STARTS, Linz, Austria
      • Space In the Mind of a Machine, Architecture, Technology, Innovation Symposium,Turkey
      • Space In the Mind of a Machine, Fowler Museum Online Studio Tour, Los Angeles, CA
      • Nature Dreams, Beyond Film Festival – Online – Lecture, Karlsruhe, Germany
      • Space In the Mind of a Machine, MIT Media Lab City Science, Online – Lecture

2019 —

      • Machine Hallucinations – Earth ISS, SIGGRAPH Asia 2019, Brisbane, Australia
      • Machine Hallucinations – Earth ISS, IEEE Visap 2019, Vancouver, Canada
      • Space In The Mind of a Machine – UC Berkeley – Keynote
      • EYEO Festival – Space In The Mind of a Machine – Minneapolis – Keynote
      • Innovation Week Turkey 2019 – Turkey – Keynote
      • OFFF Festival – Barcelona, Spain – Lecture
      • Melbourne Design Week – The Minds Eye – NGV – Melbourne – Lecture
      • Multi-sensory Science, Art & Technology, UCLA Neuroscience Department – Los Angeles – Lecture
      • Brutally Early Breakfast – Hans Ulrich Orbist & Klaus Biesenbach – MOCA – Los Angeles – Talk
      • Art and AI – FriezeLA – Los Angeles – Lecture

2018 —

      • GeorgiaTech – Digital Building Lab Symposium – Lecture
      • American Alliance of Museums – Museum AI –Lecture
      • The Poetics of Data – Charlotte ASC – Lecture
      • Knowledge Capital, Osaka – Lecture
      • AIA Virginia – Speaker
      • Microsoft Research – Speaker
      • Emergent Visions / Nanyang Technology University – Lecture
      • Harvard School of Graduate Design – Lecture

2017 —

      • Digi.logue Future Tellers – Speaker
      • Ars Electronica / AI Panel – Lecture
      • Google AMI – Speaker
      • USC – Praxis – Speaker
      • Microsoft Research – Speaker
      • G-Tech – Speaker
      • INST-INT, Speaker

2016 —

      • CalARTS Visiting Lecture Series, Lecture
      • CalARTS Visiting Lecture Series, Lecture
      • SEGD X Lab NYC, Lecture
      • The Conference Generative Design, Lecture
      • Microsoft Windows Design Group, Lecture
      • Strelka Institute, Lecture
      • Digital Hollywood Music 2020, Lecture
      • Digi.logue Discovery and Innovations in New Media and Art, Lecture
      • Resonate, Lecture
      • Perspectives: The Design Fusion of Art and Architecture, Panel
      • Art and Machine Learning Symposium, Gray Area / Google, Talk
      • Microsoft Research, Social Computing Symposium, NYU / ITP, Talk

2015 —

      • BEYOND MUSIC: Composition and Performance in the Age of Augmented Reality, Lecture
      • USC Interactive Media Forum, Lecture
      • Resonate, Lecture
      • NODE15, Talk + Lecture
      • Loyola Marymount University, Talk + Lecture

2014 —

      • Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium, Talk + Lecture
      • UCLA IDEAS, Talk + Lecture

2013 —

      • Microsoft Research, Design Summit, Talk

2012 —

      • UCLA Design Media Arts, Talk

2010 —

    • ISEA 2010, Talk
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Press

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2017 —

  • Quotation Magazine JP – Review
  • LA Times – Review
  • Creators Project CH – Review
  • Creative Applications, Review
  • Creators Project, Review
  • Daily Sabah, Review
  • Dezeen, Review
  • Designboom, Review
  • Engadget, Review
  • Forecast Public Art, Review
  • WIRED, Review
  • Creative Applications, Review
  • Creators Project, Review

2016 —

  • LA Times, Review
  • Wired, Review
  • Metropolis Mag, Interview
  • The Atlantic, City Lab, Interview
  • Co.Exist, Interview
  • KCET, Art Bound, Interview
  • Fubiz, Feature
  • Artfulliving, Interview
  • Design Milk, Review
  • FastCo.Design, Review
  • Frame Magazine, Revie
  • NTV MSNBC, Review

2015 —

  • Creative Applications, Feature
  • Fubiz, Feature
  • Creators Project / Vica, Feature
  • Archinect, Feature
  • HiFructose, Feature
  • TwistedSifter, Feature
  • Fubiz, Feature
  • Saatchi Online, Feature
  • Juxtapoz, Feature
  • Arch Atlas, Feature
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