Feral File  Unsupervised  Burned  MoMA by Refik Anadol

Unsupervised  Data Universe  MoMA is a global AI data painting that simulates a latent walk among the museums digitized collection. The artist and his team used MoMA archives to construct the seven dimensions of the artwork: x, y, z, r, g, b, and time. It combines Anadols vision of handling data within a universe that it creates for itself with his approach to data visualizations latent space as a locus for never-ending, self-generating contemplation. Researcher Leland McInnes, the inventor of the UMAP technique that Anadol has used for Unsupervised  Data Universe  MoMA wrote, I have always found beauty in mathematics, but to see what Refik has done with mathematics and these algorithms to create art is something else again: bringing together rich threads of information and data to weave amazing visual works. I never imagined that my work in mathematics could have such far reaching impacts.

Unsupervised  Burned  Data Universe  MoMA  2D #59

An Important Memory for Humanity is Refik Anadols groundbreaking limited-edition NFT collection that utilizes data from the worlds first all-civilian space flight. The collection presents a series of poetic data sculptures and paintings of the Inspiration4 mission. 
	
For this collection, Anadol and his team interpreted data from SpaceX and NASA-funded research institute TRISH (Translational Research Institute for Space Health) on the effects of space travel on the human body. TRISH conducts cutting-edge research into the impact that the conditions in space have on the astronauts, with an attempt to reduce the health risks of venturing deeper into the universe.

Anadols one-of-a-kind NFT collection not only reveals an insight into the challenges of space travel, but also contributes to a meaningful and purposeful cause to help solve critical health issues. 30% of all NFT sales will be donated to St Jude Childrens Research Hospital.
In collaboration with //CreativeWorkStudio.

INSPIRATI4N

The 21st century is the first golden age of space exploration and of artificial intelligence. In addition to viewing space exploration archives through the lens of artificial intelligence, one of the goals of this series is to address the idea of looking at humanity from outer space.

UMAP Sculptures are AI data paintings that simulate a latent walk in a data universe of all the images and spoken words from the mission, as the space travelers were looking at the world from outer space. They combine Anadols vision of handling data within its own universe with his approach to data visualizations latent space as a locus for self-generating expansion, like that of the universe.

DATA UNIVERSE  INSPIRATION4 - IMAGE #784

DATA UNIVERSE  INSPIRATION4 - AUDIO #313

DATA UNIVERSE  INSPIRATION4 - IMAGE #311

Unsupervised is part of Machine Hallucinations, Refik Anadol Studios ongoing project exploring data aesthetics based on collective visual memories. The exhibition processes 138,151 pieces of metadata from the vast collection of The Museum of Modern Art in the mind of a machine. Using StyleGAN2 ADA to capture the machines transformative hallucinations of modern art in a multi-dimensional space, Anadol trains a unique AI model with subsets of the archive of MoMAs collection of artworks, creating embeddings in 1024 dimensions. The sorted image datasets are then clustered into thematic categories to better understand the semantic context of data. This expanding data universe not only represents the interpolation of data as synthesis, but also becomes a latent cosmos in which hallucinatory potential arises from a novel form of artistic creativity interpreting MoMAs unparalleled collection of modern and contemporary art. Refik Anadol