--- title: Refik Anadol slug: refik-anadol-39939 url: /detay/refik-anadol-39939 type: biography language: English entity: primary: Refik Anadol type: biography categories: - name: Digital Arts slug: dijital-sanatlar url: /kategori/dijital-sanatlar - name: General Knowledge slug: genel-kultur url: /kategori/genel-kultur - name: Painting, Sculpture And Photography slug: resim-heykel-ve-fotografcilik url: /kategori/resim-heykel-ve-fotografcilik tags: - Media Art - big data - Refik Anadol - Artificial Intelligence - Digital art author: Beyza Nur Türkü created_at: 2026-07-14T18:15:44.410745+03:00 updated_at: 2026-07-14T18:15:44.410745+03:00 image: https://cdn.t3pedia.org/media/uploads/2025/02/19/P8dwl06rQQ1pGiGUYHBjPIG4K4JR5MY4.png --- # Refik Anadol > A renowned Turkish media artist, director, and designer who integrates traditional artistic concepts with technology ## KURE Information Cards ### KURE Information Card: Refik Anadol ![Ekran görüntüsü 2025-02-19 221650.png](https://cdn.t3pedia.org/media/uploads/2025/02/19/qHMX5xRnGp4plKglUCKpgjyMAdXzVsYW.png) | Field | Value | |-------|-------| | Spouse | Efsun Erkılıç | | Date of birth | 1985-11-07 | | Place of birth | İstanbul/Türkiye | | Occupation | Digital Artist,Designer,Director | ## Article Content [Refik](/en/detay/refik/llms.txt) Anadol (b. 1985, Istanbul, Türkiye) is an internationally renowned media artist, director, and pioneer in the aesthetics of machine intelligence. Currently based in Los Angeles, California, Anadol is the founder and operator of [Refik Anadol](/en/detay/refik-anadol-3/llms.txt) Studio and its research practice, RAS LAB, which focuses on discovering and developing new approaches to data storytelling. Anadol also teaches at the Department of Design Media Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he completed his graduate studies. ### **Youth and Education** Refik Anadol was born on 7 [November](/en/detay/kasim-748438/llms.txt) 1985 in Istanbul. His family provided him with strong support from childhood. His father was a bank manager and his mother a civil servant. Anadol lost his father to a heart attack at the age of 15. Other family members, particularly his aunt and uncle, sought to guide him throughout his life. His grandfather, a senior criminal judge, instilled in Anadol a deep sense of ethical principles and values within the family. After completing his primary education at Kalev Primary School, he graduated from Kadıköy [Anadolu](/en/detay/anadolu-4/llms.txt) High School. He then began his studies in Photography and Video at Istanbul [Bilgi](/en/detay/bilgi-4/llms.txt) University, simultaneously pursuing a double major in Visual Communication Design. In 2009, he gained widespread attention for successfully executing Türkiye’s first 3D video projection. After completing his undergraduate education, he moved to Los Angeles to pursue a second master’s degree in media arts at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). ### **Career and Achievements** Refik Anadol’s career began with architecturally oriented sculptures in public spaces. Over time, he shifted his focus toward digital [art](/en/detay/sanat/llms.txt) and artificial intelligence. The artist aims to create interactive and immersive experiences by combining visual and auditory data with new media technologies. He has collaborated with major corporations such as Google, Microsoft, NASA, Intel, IBM, Nvidia, and Samsung, contributing to numerous international projects. In his works, Anadol visualizes large data sets to demonstrate how perceptions of [space](/en/detay/mekan/llms.txt) and [time](/en/detay/zaman-2/llms.txt) have transformed in the digital age. Following these successes, his works began to be exhibited in world-renowned venues and significant cultural spaces. He has won numerous international awards and established a prominent global reputation. ### **Notable Works and Contributions** Anadol’s works push the boundaries of digital art by integrating technology with traditional artistic concepts. His contributions in the fields of artificial intelligence, big data, and digital media are closely followed in the art world. Since founding his studio in 2015, Anadol has developed numerous projects using artificial intelligence and large data sets. His works examine the challenges and opportunities created by information processing in everyday life and question what it means to be human in the age of artificial intelligence. Alongside the increasing dominance of machines in our daily lives, he explores how perceptions of time and space have fundamentally changed. Anadol investigates how the digital [age](/en/detay/cag-4/llms.txt) and machine intelligence offer new aesthetic [techniques](/en/detay/teknik-2/llms.txt) to create enriched immersive environments and a dynamic perception of [space](/en/detay/mekan/llms.txt). Advancing the concept of “post-digital architecture,” Anadol invites viewers to imagine alternative realities by redefining the functionality of both interior and exterior architectural elements. He achieves this by moving beyond the mere integration of media into built forms and translating the logic of new media technologies into art and design. Situated at the intersection of art, [science](/en/detay/bilim-2/llms.txt), and technology, Anadol’s site-specific three-dimensional data sculptures, paintings, live audiovisual performances, and installations take on both virtual and physical forms, offering audiences a new perspective and narrative of his worlds. Anadol’s work “Active Structures; [Acoustic](/en/detay/akustik-3/llms.txt) Formations” is among the first of its kind in Türkiye, exploring the relationship between space, light, sound, and architecture. In addition, he has received numerous awards, including Google’s *Art and Machine Intelligence Artist Residency Award*. His significant exhibitions include venues such as the National Gallery of Victoria (Australia), Walt Disney Concert Hall ([USA](/en/detay/abd/llms.txt)), Hammer Museum (USA), and Artechouse New York (USA). ![Image](https://cdn.t3pedia.org/media/uploads/2025/02/19/dkaxdjWRaTg866Dnufc6sKgnWKamViJe.png) *The Aether Project, Walt Disney – Los Angeles (2014). (Source: Art&Rea)* ![Image](https://cdn.t3pedia.org/media/uploads/2025/02/19/3yfNWPcodX7vawZu4h0GlyfYF7Dr4Itm.png) *Machine Hallucinations, Seoul – South Korea (2019). (Source: Art&Rea)* ![Image](https://cdn.t3pedia.org/media/uploads/2025/02/19/kDwYwmLoHPbEYnOzz5Mnlb1w5JTFg5x4.png) *Machine Memoirs: Space, Pilevneli Gallery – Istanbul (2021) (Source: Art&Rea)* ### **Personal Life** Refik Anadol married Efsun [Erkılıç](/en/detay/efsun-3/llms.txt), whom he met while studying at Bilgi University. The couple has maintained a happy family life for 13 years and continues to live together in Los Angeles. They collaborate on artistic projects with two close friends. Anadol frequently speaks of the vital contributions his family has made to his art and life, emphasizing their importance. ### **Exhibitions** #### **Solo Exhibitions** ##### **2024** - Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive, Futura Seoul, Korea - Rumi Dreams: AI Data Sculpture, Modern and Contemporary Art Center, Debrecen, Hungary - Gaudí Dreams: AI Data Sculpture, Casa Batlló, Barcelona, Spain - Inner Portraits: AI Data Sculpture, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland - Dvorak Dreams, Kennedy Center, Washington, DC, USA - Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive, Serpentine Galleries, London, United Kingdom - Living Arena, Intuit Dome, Inglewood, CA, USA - Winds of Yawanawa: AI Data Sculpture, PIP Seoul, Korea - Machine Hallucinations – LNM, Google I/O, Mountain View, CA, USA - Large Nature Model: Living Art, NVIDIA GTC, San Jose, CA, USA - Living Archive: Nature, World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland - Winds of Yawanawa: AI Data Sculpture, World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland - Living Paintings: Nature, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands - Natural Paintings, Kanazawa 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan ##### **2023** - Machine Hallucinations: Sphere, The Sphere, Las Vegas, USA - Unsupervised – MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, USA - Machine Hallucinations – Nature Dreams, SFMoMA, Google Cloud Next, San Francisco, USA - Dvorak Dreams, Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic - Sense of Healing: AI Data Sculpture, Seoul, Korea - Machine Hallucinations – Nature Dreams, Google Camp, Sicily, Italy - Winds of Yawanawa: AI Data Sculpture, Mykonos, Greece - Bosphorus – AI Data Sculpture, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Türkiye - Unseen Intelligence, Midtown Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan - Neural Paintings, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland - Mumbai Dreams, JIO World Center, Mumbai, India - Glacier Dreams, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland - Ipotesi Metaverso, Palazzo Cipolla, Rome, Italy - Machine Hallucinations – Nature Dreams, ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark - The Nature Series, Moco Museum, Barcelona, Spain - Artificial Realities: Coral, World Economic Forum, Davos, Switzerland - Glacier Dreams, ArtScience Museum, Singapore - Metamorphosis – Immersive AI Data Sculpture, New York City, NY, USA - Living Paintings, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA - Glacier Dreams, Art Dubai, Dubai, UAE - Machine Dreams – Riyadh, JAX, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - Metamorphosis, Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum, Madrid, Spain ##### **2022** - Unsupervised – MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY, USA - Machine Hallucinations Nature Dreams – AI Data Sculpture, EMMA Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland - Alcazar Dreams – Immersive AI Data Sculpture, HOPE [Alcazar](/en/detay/alkazar-2/llms.txt), Istanbul, Türkiye - Tree of Life – Realtime AI [AV](/en/detay/av-3/llms.txt) Performance, Zorlu PSM, Istanbul, Türkiye - Serpenti Metamorphosis – Immersive AI Data Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom - Unfinished – Dreams / Stable Diffusion, The Shed, New York City, NY, USA - Pinakothek Dreams – AI Data Sculpture, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany - Gagosian and Jeffrey Deitch – 100 Years Exhibition, Miami, Florida, USA - Sense of Healing – AI Data Sculpture, UNICEF [Gala](/en/detay/gala-2/llms.txt), Capri, Italy - Quantum Memories – Haus der elektronischen Künste – HEK, Basel, Switzerland - Sense of Healing – AI Data Sculpture, AURORA, St. Tropez, France - Architecting The Metaverse – Zaha Hadid Architects – DDP, Seoul, Korea - Living Architecture – Casa Batlló, Barcelona, Spain - Rumi Dreams – AI Data Sculpture, Atatürk [Culture](/en/detay/kultur-2/llms.txt) Center, Istanbul, Türkiye - Machine Hallucinations – Renaissance Dreams, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy - Quantum Memories, SOMA Onassis Exhibition, Athens, Greece - Bosphorus – AI Data Sculpture, Brixen [Light](/en/detay/isik-2/llms.txt) Festival, Germany - Infinity Room, Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity [at](/en/detay/at-3/llms.txt) Kunsthalle – Prague, Prague, Czech Republic - Beethoven – Missa Solemnis – Philadelphia Orchestra, Philadelphia, PA, USA - Machine Memoirs: Space, Eternal Artspace (MUTEK) – Tokyo, Japan - Ligeti – Paradigms, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco, CA, USA - Machine Memoirs: Space, Coventry, United Kingdom - Industrial Dreams – Futur21, Henrichshütte Hattingen, Hattingen, Germany ##### **2021** - Unsupervised – Machine Hallucinations – MoMA, NFT Exhibition, FeralFile - Machine Hallucinations – Space Dreams, World Creative Economy Conference, Dubai, UAE - Machine Hallucinations – Coral Dreams, Art Basel Miami, Faena Beach, Florida, USA - Black Sea: Data Sculpture, Hyper Perspective: Technology + Art Exhibition, Qingdao, China - Space: Data Tunnel, Art for the Future Biennale, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, [Russia](/en/detay/rusya-2/llms.txt) - Serpenti – Metamorphosis, Milan, Italy - Quantum Memories – SemiPermanent, Abu Dhabi, UAE - Renaissance Dreams – 180 The Strand, London, United Kingdom - Machine Hallucinations – NYC – Unfinished, Project Liberty, New York, USA - Sense of Space Connectome + Molecular Architecture, Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy - Seeing the Invisible – AR Exhibition, Global - Pioneer Tower Dreams – Public Art for Fort Worth, Texas, USA - In the Mind of Gaudí – Casa Batlló, Barcelona, Spain - Quantum – bitforms Gallery, New York City, NY, USA - Sense of Heritage – Hennessy HQ, Cognac, France - ISS Dreams – Resonant Media – Possibilities of 8K Visualization, Ars Electronica + NHK, Tokyo, Japan - Renaissance Dreams – M.E.E.T, Milan, Italy - Machine Memoirs: Space, Pilevneli Gallery, Istanbul, Türkiye - Machine Hallucinations: NVIDIA GTC AI Art Gallery, NVIDIA GTC 2021, Virtual - Seoul Haemong II, DDP Building, Seoul, Korea ##### **2020** - Quantum Memories, National Gallery of Victoria 2020 Triennial, Melbourne, [Australia](/en/detay/avustralya-2/llms.txt) - Metamorphosis Returns – Machine Hallucinations, Seoul, Korea - Distant Arcades – Machine Hallucinations – Nature Dreams, MUTEK, Montreal, [Canada](/en/detay/kanada-4/llms.txt) - Melting Memories – Engram, Images Vevey Art Festival, Switzerland - Machine Hallucinations: NVIDIA GTC AI Art Gallery, NVIDIA GTC 2020, Virtual - Melting Memories – Engram, Taipei Digital Art Festival, Taipei, Taiwan - Machine Hallucinations – Nature Dreams, Beyond [Film](/en/detay/film-5/llms.txt) Festival, Karlsruhe, Germany - Digital Dreams, Kurhaus, Baden-Baden, Germany - NEAR + FUTURES + QUASI + WORLDS, STATE Studio, Berlin, Germany - Melting Memories – Engram, Sørlandets Art Museum, Norway - Melting Memories – Engram, Neurones, Centre Pompidou, [Paris](/en/detay/paris-4/llms.txt), France - Infinite Space, Artechouse, Miami, FL, USA ##### **2019** - Machine Hallucinations – Earth ISS, SIGGRAPH Asia 2019, Brisbane, Australia - Winds of Shenzhen, 40 Years of Humanizing Technology – Ars Electronica, Shenzhen, China - Machine Hallucinations – Earth ISS, IEEE Visap 2019, Vancouver, Canada - Bosphorus, les Garages Numériques, Brussels, Belgium - Melting Memories, Open Codes, Azkuna Zentroa, Spain - Infinity Room, Daejeon Art Museum, Daejeon, South Korea - Machine Hallucinations – [Mars](/en/detay/mars-749836/llms.txt), AS-Helix, National Museum of China, Beijing, China - Archive Dreaming, AS-Helix, National Museum of China, Beijing, China - Neuro Space, Neuroscience Society, Chicago, IL, USA - Bosphorus, Les Garages Numériques, Brussels, Belgium - Melting Memories, Volvo Art Residency, Zurich, Switzerland - Infinity Room, Volvo Art Residency, Zurich, Switzerland - Melting Memories, Florence Biennale, Florence, Italy - Infinite Space, Artechouse, Miami, FL, USA - Machine Hallucination, Artechouse, New York City, NY, USA - Latent History, Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden - Infinite Space, Artechouse, Washington, DC, USA - Macau Currents: Data Paintings, Art Macao: International Art Exhibition, Macau - Archive Dreaming, Symbiosis – [Asia](/en/detay/asya-2/llms.txt) Digital Art Exhibition, Beijing, China - Machine Hallucination – Study II, Hermitage Museum, Moscow, Russia - Memoirs from Latent Space, New Human Agenda, Akbank Art, Istanbul, Türkiye - Melting Memories – Engram – LEV Festival, Gijón, Spain - Machine Hallucination – Study I, Bitforms Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA - Infinity Room – Dataland, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany - Bosphorus, Pilevneli Gallery, Istanbul, Türkiye - Infinity Room – Dataland, Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, USA ##### **2018** - Melting Memories, Species and Beyond, Kikk Festival, Belgium - WDCH Dreams, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA, USA - Melting Memories, Open Codes, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany - Melting Memories, Pilevneli Gallery, Istanbul, Türkiye - Infinity Room / New Edition, New Zealand Festival, Wellington, New Zealand - Virtual Archive, SALT [Galata](/en/detay/galata-2/llms.txt), Istanbul, Türkiye - Liminality V1.0, International Art Projects, Hildesheim, Germany - Infinity Room / New Edition, Kaneko Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, USA - The Invisible Body: Data Paintings, Sven-Harrys Museum, Stockholm, Sweden - Data Sculpture Series, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, South Korea - 1-2-3 Data Exhibition, Paris, EDF, France - Infinity Room, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona, USA - Infinity Room, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA, USA ##### **2017** - Infinity Room / New Edition, MeConvention, Frankfurt, Germany - Archive Dreaming, Ars Electronica, Linz, [Austria](/en/detay/avusturya-2/llms.txt) - Wind of Linz, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria - Infinity Room / New Edition, Beijing, China - Archive Dreaming, SALT Galata, Istanbul, Türkiye - Infinity Room / New Edition, Athens, Greece - Heterotopia, Istanbul, Türkiye - Infinity Room / New Edition, SXSW, Austin, TX, USA ##### **2016** - Warhol X Anadol, Young Projects, Los Angeles, USA - Radical Atoms, Ars Electronica – Computer Animation Festival, Linz, Austria - Infinity Room, The Conference, Malmö, Sweden - Infinity Room, TAG Festival, Mexico City, Mexico - MultipliCITY – Victor Vasarely, Fondation Vasarely, Paris, France - Cavity InfoComm, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA - Infinity Room Mapping [Festival](/en/detay/festival-2/llms.txt), Geneva, Switzerland - Infinity Room VIA Festival, Paris, France - Infinity Room EXIT Festival, Paris, France ##### **2015** - Infinity Room Day For Night, Houston, Texas, USA - Cavity Monochrome, Akbank Art, Istanbul, Türkiye - Liminal Room Istanbul Light Festival, Istanbul, Türkiye - SIGGRAPH ASIA 2015 Art Gallery, Kobe, Japan - Expected Port City Talks / Istanbul-Antwerp, Europalia, Antwerp, Belgium - Wavelengths Digital Turkey Exhibition, Europalia, Antwerp, Belgium - Infinity Room Artnivo, Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Türkiye - SIGGRAPH 2015: Electronic Theatre, Los Angeles, USA - Ars Electronica – Computer Animation Festival, Linz, Austria - The New Creativity: Man and Machines, MAK, Los Angeles, USA - Digital Couture / Epson, Industria SuperStudio, New York, USA - Waves, Blok Art Space, Istanbul, Türkiye ##### **2014** - Cavity, RH Contemporary Art Gallery, New York, USA - Algo-Rhythms, Sonos-Studio, Los Angeles, USA - Adobe Creative Cloud [Mosaic](/en/detay/mosaic-2/llms.txt) Project, New York, USA - UCLA DMA Media Arts MFA Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, USA - Presentism: Light as Material, Young Projects, Los Angeles, USA - VitrA Contemporary Architecture Series: Dreams to Realities, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul ##### **2013** - Parallel Threads, Ekavart Gallery, Istanbul, Türkiye - Prefix, Media Arts MFA Exhibition, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, USA - Incidence, UCLA DMA MFA Group Show, Design Matters Gallery, Los Angeles, USA - The Active Apparatus and Liminal Landscapes, Young Projects, Los Angeles, USA ##### **2012** - Istanbul Design Biennial, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Türkiye - Sceptical Interventions, Pilevneli Projects, Istanbul, Türkiye - Istanbul [Summer](/en/detay/yaz-3/llms.txt) Exhibition, Antrepo 5, Sanat Limanı, Istanbul ##### **2011** - Minus Feld, American Hospital, “Operation Room”, Istanbul ##### **2010** - Human Landscapes, Goethe Institut & Contretype, Brussels, Belgium - Spagat, Marta Herford Museum, Herford, Germany - Untitled II, ULG, Liége, Belgium - Track 09, ÇSM – santralistanbul, Istanbul ##### **2009** - Untitled, Galeri 1 – santralistanbul, Istanbul - Academy Meets Photokina, Photokina, Cologne, Germany ##### **2008** - Track 08, Contemporary Art Center – santralistanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye #### **Audiovisual Performances** ##### **2024** - Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive, Futura Seoul, Korea - Large Nature Model: Living Art, NVIDIA GTC, San Jose, CA, USA - Living Archive: Nature, World Economic Forum Opening, Davos, Switzerland - Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive, Serpentine Galleries, London, United Kingdom ##### **2023** - Living Architecture – Casa Batlló, Barcelona, Spain - Data Portal: Nature, COP 28, Dubai, UAE - Glacier Dreams, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland - Living Paintings, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA - In the Mind of Gaudí – Casa Batlló, Barcelona, Spain ##### **2022** - Living Architecture – Casa Batlló, Barcelona, Spain - Tree of Life – Realtime AI AV Performance, Zorlu PSM, Istanbul, Türkiye - Beethoven – Missa Solemnis, Philadelphia Orchestra, Philadelphia, PA, USA - Ligeti – Paradigms, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco, CA, USA - Machine Memoirs: Space, Coventry, United Kingdom ##### **2021** - Sense of Space, Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy - In the Mind of Gaudí – Casa Batlló, Barcelona, Spain - Pioneer Tower Dreams – Public Art for Fort Worth, Texas, USA - Sense of Heritage – Hennessy HQ, Cognac, France - Machine Memoirs: Space, Pilevneli Gallery, Istanbul, Türkiye ##### **2020** - Machine Hallucinations – Nature Dreams, Beyond Film Festival, Karlsruhe, Germany ##### **2019** - Seoul Haemong, DDP, Seoul, Korea - Latent Being, Kraftwerk, Berlin, Germany - Machine Hallucination, Artechouse NYC, New York City, USA ##### **2018** - WDCH Dreams, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA, USA - Schumann’s Das Paradies und Peri, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, CA, USA - Melting Memories, Pilevneli Gallery, Istanbul, Türkiye ##### **2017** - Infinity Room / New Edition, MeConvention, Frankfurt, Germany - Archive Dreaming, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria - Infinity Room / New Edition, Beijing, China - E/Space, Santa Monica, CA, USA ##### **2016** - Data Cloth Broad Art Center, Los Angeles, USA - Cavity InfoComm 2016, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA ##### **2015** - Infinity Room Day For Night, Houston, Texas, USA - Liminal Room Istanbul Light Festival, Istanbul, Türkiye - [Erik](/en/detay/erik-748926/llms.txt) Satie’s Vexations, UCLA Ostin Rehearsal Room, Los Angeles, USA - Infinity Room Artnivo, Istanbul, Türkiye ##### **2014** - Visions of America: Amériques LA Phil, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles, USA - Tree of Life, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA - Algo-Rhythms, Sonos-Studio, Los Angeles, USA - The Aether Project, IDEAS, Los Angeles, USA ##### **2013** - Semaphore, LichtRouten, Lüdenscheid, Germany - Liminality, Temporary Immersive Environments, Los Angeles, USA ##### **2012** - Peripheral, Temporary Immersive Environments, Los Angeles, USA - Highlights, Urban Prototyping:SF , San Francisco, USA - Augmented Structures v2.0, Istanbul Design Biennial, Istanbul, Türkiye - Epiphaneia, Montreal Design Biennial, Montreal, Canada - Legorreta Alive, SantaFe School of Art and Design, New Mexico, USA ##### **2011** - Augmented Structures v1.0, [Yapı](/en/detay/yapi-2/llms.txt) [Credit](/en/detay/kredi-748643/llms.txt) Culture and Art Center, Istanbul, Türkiye - Arc de Triomf, Barcelona, Spain - Cerha Momentum, Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria ##### **2010** - MRO, Tabakfabrik – Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria - Quadrangle, Zollverein – Ruhr - [Europe](/en/detay/avrupa-2/llms.txt) Capital of Culture, Essen, Germany ##### **2009** - Quadrature, Contemporary Art Center – santralistanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye #### **Lectures and Talks** ##### **2024** - The Future of Public Art – Noor Riyadh Public Talk, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - The Future of Curation: How Must We Adapt to Engage Diverse Audiences in the World of Tomorrow? – Dubai Future Forum 2024, Dubai, UAE - The Intersection of Nature, Science, and AI ArtSynopsis – Lecture, Novartis Campus, Basel, Switzerland - Keynote, 2024 Monterey Design Conference by American Institute of Architects, Monterey, USA - Pushing Creative Boundaries: AI as a Partner in Art – Miro Canvas ’24, New York, USA (Miro-hosted Canvas 24) - Embracing AI and Blockchain As [an](/en/detay/an-2/llms.txt) [Artist](/en/detay/artist-3/llms.txt) – PIP Seoul, Seoul, South Korea - Art and Technology – Christie’s 8th Art+Tech Summit, New York, USA - The Intersection of Art and Technology: Refik Anadol and Meredith Black, Config 2024 by Figma, San Francisco, USA - Digital Dialogues – Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland - Dialectic Summer Jam – Novartis Campus, Basel, Switzerland - Art and Science Talks – Zurich Art Week, Zurich, Switzerland - A new renaissance in art: Refik Anadol on the AI transformation of art, Google IO, Mountain View, USA - Serpentine In Conversation: Refik Anadol with Mira Lane and Doug Eck, Moderated by Kay Watson, Goethe-Institut, London, United Kingdom - Art in The Age of AI with Bennet Miller, CAA, Los Angeles, USA - Artist Talk at Kunsthal Rotterdam – Living Paintings: Nature, Rotterdam, Netherlands - STEAM Symposium – Keynote, Long Beach, USA ##### **2023** - How AI art could enhance humanity’s collective memory – TED Talk, Vancouver, Canada - World Economic Forum – Generative AI Panel / Keynote, Davos, Switzerland - Generative AI: Shaping the Future Opening Lecture, [MIT](/en/detay/mit/llms.txt), Massachusetts, USA - Lecture – Harvard Graduate School of Design, MIT, Massachusetts, USA - Painting with AI with a Thinking Brush – Penny Stamp Series, University of Michigan, Detroit, USA - Artist Talk, Domus Academy, Milan, Italy - Creating AI Art with a Thinking Brush, PhotoVogue, Milan, Italy - Getty, State of the Arts, Los Angeles, USA - Neural Net Aesthetics – Panel, New Museum, New York, USA - AI and the Arts – Panel, Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, USA - World Economic Forum – Cultural Leaders as a Catalyst of Change with Refik Anadol / Keynote, Davos, Switzerland - Machine Hallucinations – AI Research of RAS at Google, Keynote, San Francisco, USA ##### **2022** - Lecture at MIT Media Lab – Hiroshi Ishii’s Tangible Media Group - Design Emergency with Paola Antonelli - Mental Health Forum, Therme Art + AURORA Institution, St. Tropez, France - OFFF Festival, Barcelona, Spain - ISE Opening Keynote, Exploring the Heritage of Tomorrow, Barcelona, Spain - MIT Technology Review, EmTech Digital, MIT, Boston, MA, USA - MoMA – Unsupervised AI and Arts, NVIDIA GTC 2022, Virtual ##### **2021** - Space In The Mind of a Machine, SemiPermanent Middle East, Abu Dhabi, UAE - The Aesthetics of Probability, Google Quantum Summer Symposium 2021, Virtual - National Endowment for the Arts, Tech As Art Symposium, 2021, Virtual - Humanity and Artificial Intelligence, SNF Nostos Conference, 2021, Athens, Greece - Space In the Mind of a Machine Guest Lecture at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences // aiXdesign, 2021, Virtual - International Symposium on Machine Learning at Arts, 2021, City University of Hong Kong - Q6 Quantum Symposium, 2021, University of Sydney, Australia - Breaking Glass Symposium, Städelschule Architecture, Frankfurt, Germany - Sense of SpaceAI, Neuroscience and Architecture, NVIDIA GTC 2021, Virtual - Human-AI Co-Creation with Generative Models, IBM, Virtual - Space In the Mind of a Machine, Fowler Museum Online Studio Tour, Los Angeles, CA, USA - Nature Dreams, Beyond Film Festival – Online – Lecture, Karlsruhe, Germany ##### **2020** - Art In the Age of Machine Intelligence, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, United Kingdom - Space In the Mind of a Machine, TED Talk 2020, Virtual Stage - Closing the Gap – Dutch Design Week 2020, Amsterdam, Netherlands - World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) – AI Lab, Geneva, Switzerland - Synesthetic Architecture, Ars Electronica Festival – STARTS, Linz, Austria - Space In the Mind of a Machine, Architecture, Technology, Innovation Symposium, Türkiye - Space In the Mind of a Machine, Fowler Museum Online Studio Tour, Los Angeles, CA, USA - Nature Dreams, Beyond Film Festival – Online – Lecture, Karlsruhe, Germany - Space In the Mind of a Machine, MIT Media Lab City Science, Virtual Lecture ##### **2019** - Machine Hallucinations – Earth ISS, SIGGRAPH Asia 2019, Brisbane, Australia - Machine Hallucinations – Earth ISS, IEEE Visap 2019, Vancouver, Canada - Space In The Mind of a Machine – UC Berkeley – Keynote - EYEO Festival – Space In The Mind of a Machine – Minneapolis – Keynote - Innovation Week Turkey 2019 – Türkiye – Keynote - OFFF Festival – Barcelona, Spain – Lecture - Melbourne Design Week – The Minds Eye – NGV – Melbourne - Multi-sensory Science, Art & Technology, UCLA Neuroscience Department – Los Angeles - Brutally Early Breakfast – Hans Ulrich Obrist & Klaus Biesenbach – MOCA – Los Angeles - Art and AI – FriezeLA – Los Angeles ##### **2018** - GeorgiaTech – Digital Building Lab Symposium – Speaker - American Alliance of Museums – Museum AI – Speaker - The Poetics of Data – Charlotte ASC – Speaker - Knowledge Capital, Osaka – Speaker - AIA Virginia – Speaker - Microsoft Research – Speaker - Emergent Visions / Nanyang Technology University – Speaker - Harvard School of Graduate Design – Speaker ##### **2017** - Digi.logue Future Tellers – Speaker - Ars Electronica / AI Panel – Speaker - Google AMI – Speaker - USC – Praxis – Speaker - Microsoft Research – Speaker - G-Tech – Speaker - INST-INT, Speaker ##### **2016** - CalARTS Visiting Lecture Series, Speaker - SEGD X Lab NYC, Speaker - The Conference Generative Design, Speaker - Microsoft Windows Design Group, Speaker - Strelka Institute, Speaker - Digital Hollywood Music 2020, Speaker - Digi.logue Discovery and Innovations in New Media and Art, Speaker - Resonate, Speaker - Perspectives: The Design Fusion of Art and Architecture, Panel - Art and Machine Learning Symposium, Gray Area / Google, Speaker - Microsoft Research, Social Computing Symposium, NYU / ITP, Speaker ##### **2015** - BEYOND MUSIC: Composition and Performance in the Age of Augmented Reality, Speaker - USC Interactive Media Forum, Speaker - Resonate, Speaker - NODE15, Speaker - Loyola Marymount University, Speaker ##### **2014** - Microsoft Research Social Computing Symposium, Speaker - UCLA IDEAS, Speaker ##### **2013** - Microsoft Research, Design Summit, Speaker ##### **2012** - UCLA Design Media Arts, Speaker ##### **2010** - ISEA 2010, Speaker ### **Awards** - TIME100 AI Impact Awards (2025) - Lorenzo il Magnifico Lifetime Achievement Award - Lumen Prize Gold Award (2019) - UCLA Edward A. 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