Unsupervised — Machine Hallucinations — MoMA Fluid Dreams

For “Unsupervised — Machine Hallucinations — MoMA Fluid Dreams,” Refik Anadol Studio synthesized the vast data collected from the MoMA archive into ethereal data pigments, and eventually into a representational form of fluid-inspired movements with the help of generative algorithms and a custom software called Latent Space Browser, which the studio has been developing since 2017. Thus, Anadol’s signature fluid dynamics algorithm infinitely dreams about the MoMA archive.

Fluid dynamics has been a source of artistic inspiration for Anadol since the inception of his broader project, Machine Hallucinations. The artist’s exploration of digital pigmentation and light through fluid solver algorithms accelerated by GPU computation and real-time ray-traced lighting manifests this inspiration by showcasing the most innovative methods available to AI-based media artists.

The artwork comes with an artist-signed 3D physical certificate with backup, a custom computer with software, and a Samsung 75" QLED 4 display, to be shipped from the artist’s studio to the first collector in early 2022. This 1/1 unique video artwork will be collected through a highest-bid auction.