REFIK ANADOL - ON THE PRECIPICE OF POSSIBILITY
Turkish-American new media artist Refik Anadol is on the vanguard of a whole new landscape of art. If we are to imagine inside the mind of Ava - the sentient AI from Alex Garland’s Ex Machina - her dreams would look like his creations. This is what happens when data becomes beautiful.
"Utilising data-driven machine learning, the artist is able to construct dreamlike images, hallucinatory audiovisual explorations into the complete abstraction of everything we know about art, pulling down the frameworks of structure in order to unlearn and relearn what creativity is as its core - science.
Something of an industry wunderkid, Anadol amalgamates architecture with abstraction to create completely immersive digital public art that, for the most part, defies any real labelling. Recently, his Machine Hallucinations NFT was set in a palatial courtyard in Venice, a far-cry from the Renaissance art that was popular in the city in the past, yet equally as fitting.
Nonetheless, it’s difficult to imagine that one of the High Renaissance’s leading figures, Leonardo da Vinci wouldn’t approve. If anything, this is probably exactly the kind of work that the master would be doing himself, ever a pioneer intent on challenging the philosophical, physical and artistic boundaries of the time." — Edd Norval, July 8, 2022
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