What if machines could dream too?
REFIK ANADOL started his journey in Istanbul, Turkey as early as eight years old, when he recalls getting his very first computer. Since then his imagination with machines and its integration with art has sparked, leading him to practice with data and artificial intelligence (AI) for the last 14 years.
Anadol’s practice involves the ideation of remembering the future and training neural networks, specifically AI algorithms with millions of images of sound, text of cultural archives, or public domain information, with the goal of creating new discourse around technology, art, and science. In Saudi Arabia’s Riyadh, the artist has been presenting his work, Machine Dreams, at the Noor Riyadh Exhibition titled ‘From Spark to Spirit.’ The project is a machine-induced communal dream based on recorded visual impressions of Riyadh which was done through training a generative network of publicly-accessible photographs of the city.
This post is an excerpt. Read the full article on the Wired website. Read more about Refik Anadol.
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