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<\/p>\nUnsupervised: MoMA seen through the mind of a machine<\/p>\n
Announcing a new solo exhibition with media artist Refik Anadol<\/p>\n
Exhibition Opening:
\nNovember 18, 2021
\n9pm New York (11pm S\u00e3o Paulo, 3am Berlin (Nov 19), 10am Shanghai (Nov 19))
\nCollecting begins one hour later<\/p>\n
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Three images from the \u201cUnsupervised \u2014 Machine Hallucinations \u2014 MoMA \u2014 Dreams\u201d series by Refik Anadol Studio. Image courtesy of the artist and Feral File. <\/p>\n
Three images from the \u201cUnsupervised \u2014 Machine Hallucinations \u2014 MoMA \u2014 Dreams\u201d series by Refik Anadol Studio. Image courtesy of the artist and Feral File.<\/p>\n
Feral File and Bitmark are pleased to announce the gallery\u2019s ninth exhibition, featuring artworks by media artist Refik Anadol, who has trained a unique AI model with the metadata of The Museum of Modern Art\u2019s unparalleled collection. The result is a series of software works, video works, and data paintings that capture the machine\u2019s \u201challucinations\u201d of modern and contemporary art at MoMA. Each work will be made available to collectors as NFTs.<\/p>\n
Starting with the exhibition opening, new artworks will be revealed over three days. On November 18 at 10pm EST, one 1\/1 software artwork and two 1\/1 video artworks (shipped with accompanying hardware) will be auctioned to the highest three bidders. The next day at the same time, nine artworks in editions of 100 will be sold via nine group auctions. One day later, one video in an edition of 5,000 will be sold via set price. All auctions will take place over 24 hours.<\/p>\n
Refik Anadol Studio on Unsupervised:<\/p>\n
\u201cUnsupervised processes 138,151 pieces of publicly available metadata from the vast collection of The Museum of Modern Art in the mind of a machine. Using StyleGAN2 ADA to capture the machine\u2019s \u2018hallucinations\u2019 of modern art in a multi-dimensional space, Anadol trains a unique AI model with subsets of the archive of MoMA\u2019s collection of artworks, creating embeddings in 1024 dimensions. The sorted image datasets are then clustered into thematic categories to better understand the semantic context of data. This expanding data universe not only represents the interpolation of data as synthesis, but also becomes a latent cosmos in which hallucinatory potential arises from a novel form of artistic creativity interpreting MoMA\u2019s unparalleled collection of modern and contemporary art.\u201d<\/p>\n
Spanning more than 200 years of art, from paintings to photography to cars to video games, the MoMA collection is an extraordinary dataset\u2014within which works from artistic movements such as Surrealism, not unlike the works in Unsupervised, explored automatism, chance, and systems to generate unprecedented new art forms. The AI-based abstract images and shapes in Unsupervised are interpretations of the Museum\u2019s wide-ranging collection, weighted toward the special exhibition of new artworks on view at MoMA this fall.<\/p>\n
Preview of Select Artworks:<\/p>\n
Unsupervised \u2014 Machine Hallucinations \u2014 MoMA \u2014 Dreams (Pictured Above)<\/p>\n
\u201cUnsupervised \u2014 Machine Hallucinations \u2014 MoMA \u2014 Fluid Dreams\u201d is a series of algorithmic AI data paintings showcasing Refik Anadol\u2019s unique collaboration with machine learning at the intersection of technology and aesthetics. Each image in the series displays a cluster of chosen \u201cdream sequences,\u201d as the artist goes through serendipitous allusions to modern visual expressions in the machine-mind.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnsupervised \u2014 Data Universe \u2014 MoMA\u201d is a global AI data painting that simulates a latent walk among the Museum\u2019s digitized collection. The artist and his team used MoMA archives\u2019 metadata for the creation of UMAP Data Universe, which helped them construct seven dimensions of the artwork: x, y, z, r, g, b, and time. It combines Anadol\u2019s vision of handling data within a universe that it creates for itself with his approach to data visualization\u2019s latent space as a locus for never-ending, self-generating contemplation.<\/p>\n
About Refik Anadol:<\/p>\n
Refik Anadol (b. 1985, Istanbul, Turkey) is a media artist and pioneer in the aesthetics of machine intelligence, and the director of Refik Anadol Studio in Los Angeles. Since 2008, his works have explored the space among digital and physical entities by creating a symbiotic relationship between architecture, science, technology, and media arts. As an artist and a spatial thinker, he addresses the challenges, and the possibilities, that ubiquitous computing has imposed on humanity, and what it means to be a human in the age of AI. Anadol\u2019s site-specific audio\/visual performances have been featured at other iconic landmarks, museums, and festivals worldwide, such as Venice Architecture Biennale, Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Centre Pompidou, Florence Biennale, Hammer Museum, Art Basel, Dongdaemun Design Plaza, The Portland Building, Daejeon Museum of Art, Artechouse, International Digital Arts Biennial Montreal, Ars Electronica Festival, Arc De Triomf, Zollverein | SANAA\u2019s School of Design Building, santralistanbul Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul Design Biennial, and Sydney City Biennale among many others. Anadol has partnered, and continues to work with, teams at Google, Nvidia, Microsoft, NASA JPL, Intel, IBM, Siemens, Epson, MIT, UCLA, Caltech, Harvard, Stanford University, and UCSF to apply the latest cutting-edge science, research, and technologies to his work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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