Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic The artist shakes his head, Harry Potter-style glasses sliding off his round face as he points at a grove of psychedelic trees shifting on a massive screen \u2014 as if Philip K Dick had conjured a rainforest. But this isn\u2019t science fiction.\u201cIt\u2019s alive,\u201d Refik Anadol beams.Leaves and vines flush an unreal green and purple, as they\u2019re projected onto a white wall and white concrete floor. With a chunky step of the artist\u2019s Timberland boots, the landscape reacts and the images change again. You might think this was some trippy pre-programmed screen saver, but \u201cit\u2019s making the system. It\u2019s a living thing, a living painting,\u201d explains the 39-year-old Istanbul-born artist.This panorama is constantly reinterpreting reams of information. Unlike the data fed into generative algorithms such as ChatGPT, these images aren\u2019t simply scraped off the web. They were painstakingly collected after scanning the world\u2019s largest rainforest with laser-mapping technology, which allowed Anadol to plot out in 3D what looks like the entire Amazon basin.Anadol has also partnered with the Smithsonian, London\u2019s Natural History Museum and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology to tap into half a billion images of flora, fungi and fauna. \u201cThis concept of using data from the forest to be reconstructed as a living painting-sculpture is a 10-plus year experiment.\u201d That process allows his computers \u201cto dream\u201d, he says, as we watch the abstract light show.He calls it his \u201cLarge Nature Model\u201d \u2014 and it will fill the inaugural exhibitions of his next great leap: an AI museum in Los Angeles. The 20,000 sq ft Dataland \u2014 powered by renewable energy \u2014 will open later this year with four gallery spaces and 30 ft ceilings perfect for projections that leverage Anadol\u2019s data partnerships. Co-founded with his wife Efsun Erkili\u00e7, it\u2019s part of a sprawling Frank Gehry-designed complex called The Grand. With the expanding Broad museum next door, the hope is this will be a shot in the arm for LA\u2019s downtown cultural corridor, still reeling after the pandemic.\u00a0The key is \u201cimmersion and experience\u201d, Anadol says, explaining a plan to deliver a museum that engages all the senses through digital sculptures like the one he\u2019s just shown me. \u201cThe computer is the core,\u201d with custom LEDs, sensors and cameras that all measure data, \u201cand it can feel, it\u2019s all a part of a system. A very complex system.\u201dAlongside his swaying rainforest, sound and even scent will also be key, with AI-generated smells that reimagine everyday aromas. He lets me sniff for myself, leading me past 3D printers and a robot to a veritable parfumerie here in his sprawling 10,000 sq ft studio \u2014 an old glass factory \u2014 overlooking the Los Angeles river. These scents were trained on half a million scent molecules. \u201cWhat do you think?\u201d he asks, as I whiff an earthy blend that recalls a garden. \u201cHeirloom tomatoes,\u201d he reveals, when I can\u2019t quite guess. \u201cI want Dataland to be a place for learning,\u201d he says. Also tapping all this data is Anadol\u2019s Living Encyclopedia project, an extension of his Large Nature Model that he says is \u201clike a Britannica\u201d which lets users \u201cask questions and dream about anything and everything\u201d. It uses what Anadol calls \u201ca biome index\u201d to generate images of real \u2014 and fantastical \u2014 species, based on text prompts.Anadol tells me of the 16-hour days he and his army of architects, designers and researchers have been working in preparation for Dataland\u2019s launch. There\u2019s no doubting his boyish optimism, despite the severe outfit (Anadol has worn head-to-toe black for the past 12 years \u2014 perhaps in homage to the sci-fi films, such as Blade Runner, that he loves.)And yet depending who you talk to, AI technology is either the holy grail or snake oil. \u201cNinety-nine point nine per cent of AI art isn\u2019t art,\u201d cautions Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Jerry Saltz when I put the question to him. \u201cPushing a button is a gimmick, not art.\u201dFor artists and collectors, there\u2019s also a huge grey area about what is and isn\u2019t legal, amid criticism over AI stealing original work.\u00a0Anadol acknowledges those fears. But when it comes to his own art, \u201cit\u2019s just a medium, that\u2019s what AI is. I can\u2019t draw, but this is my canvas and my brush,\u201d he says, picking up his keyboard.\u00a0Anadol only uses original or licensed data \u2014 Dataland is committed to using \u201cethical AI\u201d. Nothing is stolen. \u201cThese are original digital sculptures built with data.\u201dDataland\u2019s location, opposite the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall, is auspicious too. That hall is where Anadol shot to fame in 2018, using 42 projectors to map his \u201cdata sculptures\u201d onto its steel walls.It\u2019s an unlikely origin story. Just a few years after landing in the US and graduating from UCLA, emailing Gehry turned out to be Anadol\u2019s big break. He told the fabled architect how much he admired him, sharing his dream to use his hall as a canvas. After Gehry gave his blessing, and Chad Smith, then the Los Angeles Philharmonic\u2019s chief operating officer, agreed, a bushy-tailed Anadol went to work, tapping nearly 45 terabytes of digitised LA Phil archives (including 40,000 hours of recordings).\u201cThe art crowd, tech crowd, hipster crowd, they all came to watch. It was a turning point,\u201d remembers Smith, now president and chief executive of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. \u201cI wasn\u2019t totally sure what we were getting and we came out of it saying this is the real thing. Here\u2019s someone who is truly a futurist. He\u2019s using this technology to create a new art form.\u201dNext, the Museum of Modern Art fed Anadol 138,000 pieces spanning two centuries from its collection, and his computer spat out a massive installation in the museum\u2019s lobby. Sotheby\u2019s sold an NFT series made with two million space images for more than $5mn. Last year, Bill Gates put him on his Netflix show, What\u2019s Next?.When we speak, Anadol is about to jet to Z\u00fcrich for a new installation at the Kunsthaus Museum, then Davos for the World Economic Forum before dashing back to the Amazon. His climate-focused NFTs have raised $3mn for Brazil\u2019s Yawanaw\u00e1 people, one of the tribes he credits with turning him on to the power of nature. \u201cThat was my life-changing experience in Amazonia,\u201d Anadol says. \u201cI even have a special name given by a tribe.\u201d (Anadol won\u2019t reveal that moniker \u2014 it\u2019s too personal, he says.)\u201cThe work really speaks to people,\u201d says Jeffrey Deitch, who tells me his gallery\u2019s 2023 show with Anadol was the \u201chighest attendance we\u2019ve ever had. We had people waiting in line for hours in the rain to see his living paintings\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Maybe a plucky immigrant\u2019s luck explains why Anadol can\u2019t help himself when we meet, name-dropping celebrities and recent Silicon Valley visits, including \u201cthe ten podcasts I did today\u201d.\u00a0But it\u2019s testament to the shared excitement around Anadol\u2019s work. \u201cLA is a place for experimentation and Refik\u2019s got a wide open, excited audience,\u201d says Meaghan Lloyd, chief of staff for Gehry Partners, who calls her boss a fan. \u201cThis is a first.\u201dDataland may not actually be the first AI museum, points out Audrey Kim, a tech exec who founded San Francisco\u2019s Misalignment AI Museum in 2023. Either way, big projects like these \u201chelp demystify the topic\u201d, Kim says. \u201cThere are so many implications for both amazing uses of AI and destructive and dangerous ones. The tech is evolving so rapidly that people aren\u2019t aware and they should be.\u201dThat\u2019s Anadol\u2019s plan. \u201cAI is just a tool,\u201d he says, one that allows him to communicate ideas and experiences he couldn\u2019t otherwise share with audiences. If this is the rise of the machines we\u2019re all afraid of, maybe we\u2019re overreacting, he chuckles.\u201cMachines dominate our lives and I am trying to show the mind inside the machine,\u201d he tells me. \u201cThat helps explain human consciousness. If that\u2019s not art, what is art?\u201d dataland.artFind out about our latest stories first \u2014 follow FT Weekend on Instagram and X, and sign up to receive the FT Weekend newsletter every Saturday morning<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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