REFIK ANADOL
LIVING ARCHITECTURE: CASA BATLLÓ

CASA BATLLÓ, BARCELONA, SPAIN
MAY 2022Refik Anadol projected an AI-generated, real-time, moving-image work on the façade of the UNESCO World Heritage Site, Casa Batlló, in Barcelona that was subsequently auctioned as an NFT. The house was designed by the famed architect, Antoni Gaudí, and the former residence has since become a popular tourist attraction in the Spanish city, celebrated for its organic, undulating exterior. LIVING ARCHITECTURE: CASA BATLLÓ was composed of data derived from local image banks and archives, which, when fed into Anadol’s pioneering AI algorithms, rippled across the surfaces of Gaudí’s building.In concert with the exterior projection, the NFT was also displayed in the interior rooms. The NFT was then auctioned at Christie’s for over one million dollars, the proceeds of which went to the Aprenem Autism and Adana Foundations, whose work supports individuals with neurodivergence (autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and others).
© Images Studio Refik Anadol
© Video Casa Batlló

FEATURED ARTIST

REFIK ANADOL
Refik Anadol (b. 1985 in Istanbul, Turkey) lives and works in Los Angeles, California, USA. He received his MFA from UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts.

Refik Anadol is a media artist, director, and pioneer in the aesthetics of data and machine intelligence. His body of work locates creativity at the intersection of humans and machines. In taking the data that flows around us as his primary material, along with the neural network of a computerized mind as a collaborator, Anadol paints with a thinking brush, offering us radical visualisations of our digitised memories, expanding the possibilities of architecture, narrative, and th...
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