{"id":2779,"date":"2021-12-12T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-12T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/artnsketch.com\/?p=2779"},"modified":"2022-04-20T15:04:04","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T19:04:04","slug":"refik-anadol-what-do-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artnsketch.com\/refik-anadol-what-do-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Refik Anadol – What Do You Need to Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Through the ages, various artists used many different mediums to express themselves. Stones used to draw on walls, brushes used to paint on canvases, marbles shaped into most interesting figures by chisels. But have you ever seen an artwork produced with the help of a computer, a robot, an Artificial Intelligence<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This might sound ridiculous if you have never heard of an AI being used to create an art piece but day by day, artists who are interested in this new form of art increase. In fact, many works made by the use of AI algorithms can be found in the last couple of years. Indeed, one good example of this is the Portrait of Edmond de Belamy<\/a><\/em>, an algorithm-generated print that was sold for $432,500<\/strong> in October 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Refik Anadol is one of the rising new media artist.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

And so today, we will get to know Refik Anadol, one of those new media artists who is attracted to algorithm-generated art and he uses this new art medium in a much more innovative way. Anadol collects data from many different subjects in real life like humans, cities, or even weather events and turns them into fantastic cinematic experiences with the help of artificial intelligence algorithms that will keep you hypnotized for hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So without further ado, let\u2019s get started on this shining star of the new media artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHO IS REFIK ANADOL?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Refik Anadol was born in 1985 <\/strong>in Istanbul<\/strong>. He got his bachelor\u2019s degree from Istanbul Bilgi University<\/strong> Visual Communication Design department with the highest honor in photography and video. As his graduation project, he carried out the first 3D projection project in Turkey.

Then he moved on to the University of California<\/strong>, Los Angeles (UCLA) for his master\u2019s degree <\/strong>in Media Arts Design<\/strong> and he is currently working there as a lecturer and visiting researcher.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The Aether Project<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Anadol began his career as an artist by producing architectural data sculptures, which he frequently displayed in public buildings and spaces. Later, he focused on creating digital art designed with artificial intelligence, which collects data from the human body, meteorology, seismic movements, music, etc. to illustrate. One of these works, The Aether<\/a><\/strong> project, turns the Los Angeles philharmonic orchestra concert into a cinematic experience with the algorithm created by Anadol and it was the first art project <\/strong>that won the Microsoft Research Best Vision Award<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Working as a new media<\/strong><\/a> artist, he tries to find an answer to how machines affect us in our daily lives and how they are affected by us. Therefore, his artwork studies the \u201cfeelings\u201d of machines, how they perceive ordinary human life as in their complicated artificial intelligence using digital media tools. Specifically, AI is the most powerful tool Anadol is taking advantage of and this way he makes it more clear how two lives, artificial and natural, are merging and intersecting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Refik Anadol Studio<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Refik Anadol working in his studio. Photo source: Niio<\/a>.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

When it comes to his workspace, Refik Anadol Studio<\/a><\/strong> was set up in Los Angeles in 2015. Since the projects utilize various fields of work, studio members come from different professions, such as architects, data scientists, designers and researchers. Therefore, this provides an area for the art to be generated from different points of view and professional ethics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WHAT IS REFIK ANADOL FAMOUS FOR?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Infinity Room<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Istanbul, 2015<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Infinity room aims to deconstruct the traditional cinema experience into a more fluid and three-dimensional living in the view event. So, to achieve that, Anadol\u2019s algorithm plays with the light to complicate the boundaries by creating unusual ones. Then, these “light rays” are reflected on all surfaces of a relatively small room. As a result, the viewers standing right in the middle of the room, surrounded by light rays reaching to infinity, lives through a captivating experience. Instead of providing a fantasy escape from the \u201creal\u201d world, the project intends to get the viewers to see themselves and their surroundings in a new, not disoriented perspective since people create a unique perspective and everyone can perceive it distinctly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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