in situ: Refik Anadol

The inaugural in situ exhibition will be an immersive, architectural, and multisensory artwork by Refik Anadol (b. 1985, Istanbul, Turkey), an internationally renowned media artist and pioneer in the aesthetics of machine intelligence. Anadol currently resides in Los Angeles, California, where he leads Refik Anadol Studio (RAS) whose practice is centered around discovering and developing trailblazing approaches to data narratives. He is also a lecturer in UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts.

Anadol’s body of work addresses the challenges and possibilities that ubiquitous computing has imposed on humanity, and questions what it means to be a human in the age of AI. 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.