As digital-art talking points have shifted from the NFT boom and bust to more enduring questions around machine intelligence and big data, LA-based Anadol’s fusion of ai-visualisation and architecture-scale immersion has circled the globe. From the 2022 installation Unsupervised at New York’s MoMA and his takeover of the digital skin of Las Vegas’s Sphere in 2023, Anadol’s studio has powered through 2024 with projects emphasising the artist’s interest in organic networks: solo shows at Kunsthal Rotterdam and London’s Serpentine Galleries offered visualisations generated from data on coral reef and rainforest flora and fauna, part of Anadol’s bigger ‘Large Nature Model’ initiative. Bringing together multiple environmental datasets, the model experiments with the possibility that AI might be trained to find insights in ecological rather than human-produced information, with iterations appearing at Google’s annual conference and the United Nations. And with artist and studio cofounder Efsun Erkılıç, Anadol has recently announced Dataland, a permanent museum and centre for AI arts, set to open in LA next year.
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