Refik Anadol: Unsupervised
Refik Anadol: Unsupervised
Artist Refik Anadol uses artificial intelligence to interpret and transform more than 200 years of art at MoMA.
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November 19, 2022 to May 05, 2023
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Exhibition Details

What would a machine dream about after seeing the collection of The Museum of Modern Art? For Unsupervised, artist Refik Anadol (b. 1985) uses artificial intelligence to interpret and transform more than 200 years of art at MoMA. Known for his groundbreaking media works and public installations, Anadol has created digital artworks that unfold in real time, continuously generating new and otherworldly forms that envelop viewers in a large-scale installation.

Artist Details

Unsupervised is a meditation on technology, creativity, and modern art. Anadol trained a sophisticated machine-learning model to interpret the publicly available data of MoMA’s collection. As the model “walks” through its conception of this vast range of works, it reimagines the history of modern art and dreams about what might have been—and what might be to come. In turn, Anadol incorporates site-specific input from the environment of the Museum’s Gund Lobby—changes in light, movement, acoustics, and the weather outside—to affect the continuously shifting imagery and sound.

Location

MoMA
11 West 53rd Street
New York, NY 10019

Image: Detail from Refik Anadol, Sample data visualization of Unsupervised — Machine Hallucinations, 2022 / courtesy of MoMA