Painting With A Thinking Brush: Refik Anadol
Monday, April 24, 2023 6:00 pm CET/GMT+1Online
On Data Aesthetics and the Future of AI-Based Art
REFIK ANADOL (b. 1985, Istanbul, Turkey) is an internationally renowned media artist, director, and pioneer in the aesthetics of data and machine intelligence. He is also a lecturer in UCLA's Department of Design Media Arts. His work locates creativity at the intersection of humans and ma chines. Taking the data that surrounds us as primary material, and the neural network of a computerized mind as a collaborator, Anadol offers us radical visualizations of our digitized memories and expands the possibilities of the arts, architecture, narrative, and the body in motion. Anadol's site-specific Al data sculptures, live audiovisual performances, and environmental installations take many forms, while encouraging us to rethink our engagement with the physical world, decentralized networks, collective experience, and the creative potential of machines. Anadol's work has been exhibited at venues including the Centre Pompidou-Metz, National Gallery of Victoria, Venice Architecture Biennale, Hammer Museum, Dong-daemun Design Plaza, Ars Electronica Festival, Istanbul Design Biennial, and ZKM / Center for Art and New Media. In 2018, Anadol collaborated with the Los Angeles Philharmonic for a live audio-visual performance projected on the façade of Frank Gehry's iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall in celebration of the orchestra's centennial. Refik Anadol: Unsupervised, the artist's first solo North American museum presentation, is currently on view at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
The virtual event will be held in English and will be recorded. For more information about how to register and attend, refer to the poster attached to this event or hung up around campus. Painting With A Thinking Brush: Refik Anadol is organized by the United States Embassy and Bard College Berlin. If you have any questions for the artist, please send them in advance to: [email protected].