Preferring difference over singularity and movement over stasis, his work locates creativity at the intersection of humans and machines. Refik Anadol is a media artist, director, and pioneer in the aesthetics of data and machine intelligence. As viewers gaze into the machine’s mind, they are left to wonder about a future world where nature no longer exists and technology becomes the only way of remembering. Utilizing the dataset as pigment and AI as his collaborator, Anadol re-creates shapes, patterns, and colors of nature, transforming them into a hypnotic cycle of deconstruction and reconstruction of natural imagery, morphed into an AI “stream of consciousness.” The work is thus based on images of nature, yet offers an alternate reality that can only be seen through a mechanical lens. The journey starts with a sophisticated Artificial Intelligence algorithm trained on 68,986,479 million raw images of nature. Refik Anadol’s work is based on a series of synesthetic reality experiments centered on how human-machine collaborations can help us experience nature in a new way. Taipei Fine Arts Museum and Tate Modern, London. Major solo exhibitions include Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal Cordoaria Nacional, Lisbon Imperial War Museum, London K20/K21, Düsseldorf OCA, São Paulo CorpArtes, Santiago Mucem, Marseille Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires Sakip Sabanci Museum, Istanbul Public Art Fund, New York The Israel Museum, Jerusalem Palazzo Strozzi, Florence 21er Haus, Vienna Helsinki Art Museum Royal Academy of Arts, London Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. The work invites viewers to enter and walk through it, experience the different cells and turnstiles, while viewing the gardens from within, through its gilded bars, as a captured bird or an imprisoned man would.Īi Weiwei is a multimedia artist who also works in film, writing, and social media. Meticulously translated into the medium of AR and augmented into the different botanical gardens, this large-scale gilded cage addresses power structures, habitats, borders, confinement, and restriction, but also care giving, preservation, and nurturing. Gilded Cage is an iconic work by multidisciplinary artist and activist Ai Weiwei, originally created in 2017 as part of a global migration campaign titled Good Fences Make Good Neighbors (a line taken from the 1914 poem Mending Wall by acclaimed American poet Robert Frost). Lives and works in multiple locations, including Beijing (China), Berlin (Germany), Cambridge (UK) and Lisbon (Portugal) Corporate Functions, Meetings & Conferences.
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