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2024 Calendar
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Monday, June 3, 2024 at 4pm
Series: Time-Based Media Lecture
Title: Creating AI Art with a Thinking Brush
learn more about the TBM lecture Join us in-person for the TBM lecture Join us Virtually for the TBM lectureBased in Los Angeles, Refik Anadol Studio conducts interdisciplinary research on the relation between the human mind, data aesthetics, machine learning technologies, and nature. Coining the terms “AI Data Painting,” “AI Data Sculpture,” and “latent city,” Anadol has been reflecting on new multi-sensory forms of narrating collective memory in physical and virtual spaces and inviting his audience to imagine Generative Realities. In this talk, Anadol will share the research and production journeys of his Studio's internationally renowned artworks, which collectively offer a dramatic rethinking of our many environments. The artist will also shed light on his most recent interdisciplinary collaborations with various scientists and communities around the world to build a bridge between nature-themed data and generative art.
Refik Anadol (b. 1985, Istanbul, Turkey) is an internationally renowned media artist, director, and pioneer in the aesthetics of data and machine intelligence. He is the Director of Refik Anadol Studio in Los Angeles and Lecturer in UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts. Anadol’s work locates creativity at the intersection of humans and machines. Taking the data that surrounds us as primary material, and the neural network of a computerized mind as a collaborator, Anadol offers us radical visualizations of our digitized memories and expands the possibilities of interdisciplinary arts. Anadol’s site-specific data paintings and sculptures, live audio/visual performances, and immersive installations take many forms, while encouraging us to rethink our engagement with the physical world, collective experiences, public art, decentralized networks, and the creative potential of AI. Anadol’s work has been exhibited at venues including MoMA, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Art Basel, National Gallery of Victoria, Venice Architecture Biennale, Hammer Museum, Arken Museum, Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Ars Electronica, Istanbul Modern, and ZKM | Center for Art and New Media. Anadol has received a number of awards and prizes including the Lorenzo il Magnifico Lifetime Achievement Award for New Media Art, Microsoft Research’s Best Vision Award, German Design Award, UCLA Art+Architecture Moss Award, Columbia University’s Breakthrough in Storytelling Award, and Google’s Artists and Machine Intelligence Artist Residency Award.
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Monday, June 3, 2024 at 4pm
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