Machine intelligence as a narrative tool in experiential art – Interview with Refik Anadol
Alum and Visiting Assistant Researcher Refik Anadol (Design Media Arts, MFA '14), works in the fields of site-specific public art and live audio/visual performance with an immersive installation approach, particularly his works explore the space among digital and physical entities by creating a hybrid relationship between architecture and media arts.
Refik Anadol
Image: Serge Hoeltschi"Could you imagine machine intelligence – including AI, quantum mechanics and big data – as a tool to create public art? LA-based Refik Anadol Studio makes this possible by exploring the intersections of media, science, and technology and communicating them visually. The outputs consist of site-specific immersive installations, data paintings, and audio/visual performances, bringing the invisible data that surrounds us to concreteness.
Space represents the main focus for the studio, especially while it relates to artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and architecture. Seeking to give value to the imagination-physicality, self-environment, technology-history dualities, Refik Anadol Studio creates human interconnections by turning our memories, histories and dreams into reality.
DesignWanted had the opportunity to interview the Turkish media artist, director of the US-based Refik Anadol Studio, who recently took part in the Business of Design Week, finding out more about his design journey, recent projects, participation in BoDW event and future plans."— Claudia Pelosi, Dec. 19, 2020
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