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Unsupervised

Artwork of the Week

Unsupervised

Refik Anadol's "Unsupervised - Machine Hallucination - MoMA (2022)" is a large-scale digital art installation interpreting the artworks in the collection of MoMA NY by using the visual archive of the museum. As the model “walks” through its conception of this vast range of works, it reimagines the history of modern art and dreams about what might have been—and what might be to come. In turn, Anadol incorporates site-specific input from the environment of the Museum’s Lobby—changes in light, movement, acoustics, and the weather outside—to affect the continuously shifting imagery and sound. Described by MoMA as "a meditation on technology, creativity, and modern art", Unsupervised attracted large crowds from the day it opened in November 2022 and was included in the museum's permanent collection in 2023. The work, along with an NFT edition, was donated to the museum by tech entrepreneur Ryan Zurrer and collectors Pablo Rodriguez-Fraile and Desiree Casoni.

2024 Art Agenda

News of the Week

2024 Art Agenda

In 2024, the most important art events that will leave their mark in the world and Turkey will undoubtedly be the “Biennials”. The first and foremost is the Venice Biennale, the 60th edition of which will take place between April 20 - November 24, 2024, curated by Adriano Pedrosa. The Turkiye Pavilion of the Biennale will feature a new work by Gülsün Karamustafa, one of the leading contemporary women artists in Turkiye, which will be produced exclusively for the biennale. At the same event, a special ceremony will be organized for Paris-based Turkish artist Nil Yalter, who was awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. The 6th edition of the increasingly popular Mardin Biennial, curated by Ali Akay, will take place between May 10 - June 10 titled "Further Away". The third important biennial in the same year is the 18th Istanbul Biennial, organized by İKSV between September 14 - November 17, 2024. For other important art events in Turkey and around the world throughout the year, please click on our Annual Calendar page

Refik Anadol

Artist of the Week

Refik Anadol

Refik Anadol was born in Istanbul in 1985. He received his bachelor's degree in photography and video from Istanbul Bilgi University, Department of Visual Communication Design. After completing his master's degree at the UCLA Department of Media Arts Design in California, Anadol is currently a lecturer and visiting researcher at the same department of UCLA. Producing works that combine architecture and media arts with data science and artificial intelligence (AI), Anadol has made great contributions to the initiation and development of AI art in the world. In addition to public art commissions at venues such as the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Anadol has collaborated with organizations such as NASA, Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, Intel, IBM, and Samsung, and his public site-specific artworks and exhibitions have been shown at the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne (Australia); Artechouse New York (USA); Walt Disney Concert Hall (USA); MoMA New York (USA); International Digital Arts Biennial Montreal (Canada); Istanbul Design Biennial (Turkey) and Sydney City Art (Australia).