Refik Anadol: Unsupervised
Award: Wood Pencil
Wood Pencil / Digital Design / Data Visualisation / 2023
A meditation on technology, creativity, and modern art, Unsupervised uses artificial intelligence to transform more than 200 years of art at the Museum of Modern Art, training a sophisticated machine learning model to interpret publicly available data about MoMA's collection. As the model 'walks' through its conception of this vast range of works, it reimagines the history of MoMA and dreams about it. It also incorporates site-specific input from the environment of the Museum’s Gund Lobby – changes in light, movement, acoustics, and the weather outside – to alter the continuously shifting imagery and sound.
What did the judges have to say?
A beautiful and mesmerising piece of work somewhere between design and art. Fascinating idea, with very advanced use of AI to show what a computer 'dreams' in real time. I could watch this for hours.
Marc Ligeti, Lead Designer, Knowit Experience
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