Refik Anadol (born 1985 in Istanbul, Turkey) lives and works in Los Angeles, California, LA. He 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 the primary material and the neural network of a computerized mind as a collaborator, Anadol paints with a thinking brush, offering us radical visualizations of our digitized memories and expanding the possibilities of architecture, narrative, and the body in motion. Anadol’s site-specific AI Data Sculptures, live audio/visual performances, and immersive installations take many forms, while encouraging us to rethink our engagement with the physical world, its temporal and spatial dimensions, and the creative potential of machines.

His work has been shown worldwide in numerous institutional exhibitions including the Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice (2021); the National Gallery of Victoria 2020 Triennal, Melbourne (2020); MUTEK, Montreal (2020); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2020); National Museum of China, Beijing (2019); Fotografiska, Stockholm (2019); ZKM, Karlsruhe (2019, 2018); the Istanbul Biennal, Istanbul (2015); Marta Herford Museum, Herford (2010); the Contemporary Art Center – sentralistanbul, Istanbul (2008). Public audio-visual performances took place in locations throughout the world such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles (2018, 2014); Ars Electronica, Linz (2017, 2011, 2010); the Arc de Triomf, Barcelona (2011); the European Capital of Culture, Essen (2010) and many others. The artist has been honored with the Lorenzo il Magnifico Lifetime Achievement Award for New Media Art (2019); the German Design Award (2017); the Microsoft Research’s Best Vision Award (2013), amongst others.

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