Refik Anadol is a media artist and director who blends architecture with digital media, exploring the future of a post-digital world.

Modern building illuminated by vibrant digital art by artist Refik Anadol.

Person standing in front of installation by Refik Anadol.

Person standing in front of huge installation by Refik Anadol.

Modern building illuminated by digital art created by artist Refik Anadol.

Artwork by Refik Anadol depicting abstract swirling patterns of blue, green & brown.

Dynamic installation featuring swirling white lines and patterns projected on black walls and mirrored floor.

Abstract digital artwork featuring dynamic, jagged textures with a burst of colors like red, white, and gray.

Refik Anadol is a media artist and director born in Istanbul, Turkey in 1985. Currently, living and working in Los Angeles, California. He is a lecturer and visiting researcher at UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts.

Embedding media arts into architecture, Refik Anadol questions the possibility of a post-digital architectural future in which there are no more non-digital realities.

Machine Memoirs: Refik Anadol exhibition showing in Istanbul

What media artist <a href="https://refikanadol.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Refik Anadol</a> does, can only be described as magic. By using complex AI algorithms he creates hybrid realities of physical and digital entities. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/pilevneligallery/?hl=de" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Pilevneli Gallery</a> in his hometown Istanbul is the scene for Refik Anadol´s newest exhibition: Machine Memoirs. 

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Refik Anadol is known for his impressive installations, which leave his viewers in awe. His upcoming exhibition “Machine Memoirs” is expected to do nothing less. Kicking off on March 18th, Anadol´s exhibition will be showing photographic memories of the earth. As part of his data painting series using artificial intelligence, “Machine Hallucinations”, which is a study of the ISS Telescope´s photo memories from our earth.
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One of his most prestigious projects shows an exploration of celestial structures through the mind of a machine. With an immersive installation, Refik Anadol aims to combine past explorations and dreams of what may exist just beyond our reach. Using machine intelligence to narrate the “unknown,” and a generative neural network trained on images of the Earth, Moon, Mars, and the Galaxy, taken from ISS, Chandra, Kepler, Voyager, and Hubble observations, the installation imagines an alternate universe, perhaps providing further texture to the fabric of our own.
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