World’s first AI arts museum to open in US in 2025, courtesy of Refik Anadol
The brainchild of visual artist Refik Anadol, Dataland will be the world’s first museum of AI arts when it opens in Los Angeles
Refik Anadol, the artist who projected the history of the Los Angeles Philharmonic as a piece of algorithmic video onto the curving steel walls of Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles in 2018, has announced that he will open the world’s first museum of AI arts across the street in 2025.
It is no coincidence that Anadol picked The Grand LA development – also designed by Gehry – as the location for his new museum, called Dataland, it being so close to the venue that helped push his career to new heights.
He has emerged as a leader of AI-generated art, with commissions that include a piece at LA’s new Intuit Dome. Coming full circle just makes sense, he says. As does launching a museum in Los Angeles dedicated to technology poised to change practically everything about the way we live.
“We are blending Gehry’s building with AI’s infrastructure and technology, and this never-seen-before art form,” Anadol says. “And I’m calling this new art form not AR, not VR, not XR – so we are still finding a name for it. The best name so far, and people love it, is ‘generative reality’.”
Nicholas Vanderboom, chief operating officer of The Grand’s developer, Related California, says Dataland will serve as the anchor for the US$1 billion mixed-use development.
