Sense of Hope: Gates Foundation is a dynamic triptych installation celebrating innovation and philanthropy. Displayed across three synchronized screens, the work unfolds as a visual journey through the Gates Foundation’s mission. It combines data visualizations, images, and particle simulations to transform the Foundation’s impactful initiatives into a mesmerizing narrative of progress and possibility. By blending art and technology, it highlights the profound potential of collaboration and innovation and inspires viewers to imagine the future made possible through collective action and philanthropy.

Refik Anadol (b. 1985, Istanbul, Turkey) is an internationally renowned media artist, director, and pioneer in the aesthetics of data and machine intelligence. He is the co-founder of Refik Anadol Studio in Los Angeles and teaches at UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts. Anadol’s work locates creativity at the intersection of humans and machines. Using data as the foundation of the artwork, created through machine learning algorithms, Anadol creates site-specific data paintings and sculptures, live performances featuring audio and visuals, and immersive installations. His work has been exhibited at venues including MoMA, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Serpentine Galleries, Art Basel, National Gallery of Victoria, Venice Architecture Biennale, Hammer Museum, Arken Museum, Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Ars Electronica, Istanbul Modern, and ZKM | Center for Art and New Media.

Established in 2014 by Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkiliç, the Los Angeles-based Refik Anadol Studio produces enthralling and immersive media art intended for anyone, any age, and any background. The award-winning studio has been engaged by leading tech companies, groundbreaking researchers, and cutting-edge thought leaders to produce projects that have been shown in more than 70 cities, spanning six continents, and experienced by millions of ardent fans. In taking the data that flows around us as the primary material and the neural network of a computerized mind as a collaborator, Anadol and his team paint with a thinking brush, offering us radical visualizations of our digitized memories and expanding the possibilities of interdisciplinary arts.