Renowned artist Refik Anadol's multi channeled fascinating installation Machine Hallucinations: Space will be exhibited at Light and Art festival Noor Riyadh until February 4, 2023.
Light and art festival Noor Riyadh has taken place between 3- 19 November 2022.
Over 190 artworks and installations featured at the festival illuminated the city of Riyadh and transformed Riyadh evenings into dazzling nights. Site-specific installations, monumental public works of art, temporary sculptures, art trails, virtual reality, building projections and drone shows attracted the attention of art lovers. Festival has been curated by Hervé Mikaeloff, Dorothy Di Stefano and Jumana Ghouth. Famous global artists of light have come together with local artists.
The festival kicked off with the theme “We Dream of New Horizons” bringing together global artists using technology, machine intelligence, digital innovations, data narratives and artificial intelligence. Refik Anadol's immersive, multichannel installation Machine Hallucinations – Space is presented to art goers as part of Noor Riyadh's From Spark to Spirit exhibition in the Jax District, one of the newly developed creative districts of the city. Visitors will be immersed in the work, within a room with floor-to-ceiling screens showing "a shared dream" created by the machine, based on recorded visual impressions of Riyadh.
Throughout the process, Anadol produced a generative network model on public photos of Riyadh collected from social media platforms and digital image archives to create his work. In this study, the city's data universe is processed in more than a thousand hidden dimensions through machine learning. Regarding his work, Anadol said, "Building in an immersive environment creates an environment where we can step into the mind of a machine."
