Turkish media artist Refik Anadol’s exhibition in London
Refik Anadol’s ‘Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive’ at the Serpentine Galleries in London invites viewers to experience the intersection of art and technology
London’s Serpentine Gallery will present Turkish artist Refik Anadol’s solo exhibition “Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive” on Feb. 16.
In his first major institutional exhibition in the U.K., Anadol, who creates audio-visual live performances, site-specific installations and parametric sculpture, takes the viewer on an immersive journey using an artificial intelligence model trained with visual data of coral reefs and rainforests.
“Echoes of the Earth” was realized with the multi-modal artificial intelligence tool “Large Nature Model,” which is fed from a dataset of natural life.
Developed by Anadol’s own studio through extensive interdisciplinary research, the model utilizes open-access information from many reputable institutions, including the Smithsonian Institution and the London Natural History Museum.
“Artificial Realities: Coral” invites the viewer into the depths of underwater life by presenting a multi-channel audio and video experience produced by an artificial intelligence model trained with approximately 5 billion coral images available online.
The exhibition also marks the premiere of the artist’s “Living Archive: Nature,” commissioned for the 2024 summit of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
Adapted for the Serpentine exhibition, the work transforms the gallery space into a rainforest created by artificial intelligence with three-dimensional outputs of fauna and flora data from around the world.
Serpentine, on the other hand, is an institution that has been closely following AI technology since 2014. The various projects it has developed with artists Cecile B. Evans, James Bridle, Jenna Sutela, Ian Cheng, Pierre Huyghe, and Hito Steyerl and the Creative AI Lab, established in collaboration with King’s College London, are a few of its contributions to the field.
Curated by Claude Adjil and co-curator Liz Stumpf, “Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive” awaits visitors until April 7, 2024. Brittany Stewart and Halime Ozdemir have produced the exhibition.
Source: Newsroom
