Event Details
The Columbia Business School Distinguished Speaker Series presents a conversation with Refik Anadol, media artist, director, and co-founder of Refik Anadol Studio in Los Angeles.
A lecturer in UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts, Anadol has exhibited at MoMA, the Centre Pompidou, and other leading institutions worldwide. A pioneer in his field and the first to use artificial intelligence in a public artwork, he has collaborated with Apple, NVIDIA, IBM, NASA/JPL, MIT, and Harvard to bring cutting-edge science and technology into his art.
His visit coincides with the installation of Artificial Realities: New York City (2025), part of his Machine Hallucinations series.
A lecturer in UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts, Anadol has exhibited at MoMA, the Centre Pompidou, and other leading institutions worldwide. A pioneer in his field and the first to use artificial intelligence in a public artwork, he has collaborated with Apple, NVIDIA, IBM, NASA/JPL, MIT, and Harvard to bring cutting-edge science and technology into his art.
His visit coincides with the installation of Artificial Realities: New York City (2025), part of his Machine Hallucinations series.
Installation Details
Located in the lobby of Henry R. Kravis installed at the heart of Columbia Business School, this work is part of Anadol’s ongoing Machine Hallucinations series, which explores how machines “dream” cities, spaces, and natural forms.
The piece invites viewers into a form of synesthetic storytelling—where memory, machine intelligence, and human perception intersect. At once architectural and ephemeral, the painting transforms the lobby into a space of meditative immersion and digital reflection, provoking questions about the boundaries between data and imagination, city and self, technology and the future of art.
The piece invites viewers into a form of synesthetic storytelling—where memory, machine intelligence, and human perception intersect. At once architectural and ephemeral, the painting transforms the lobby into a space of meditative immersion and digital reflection, provoking questions about the boundaries between data and imagination, city and self, technology and the future of art.
Location
Henry R. Kravis Hall
Room 1040
655 West 130th Street
New York, NY 10027
Images: Rafik Anadol / courtesy of Columbia Business School