Refik Anadol (b. 1985, Istanbul, Türkiye) is an internationally renowned media artist and a pioneer in the aesthetics of artificial intelligence and machine learning. Currently based in Los Angeles, California, Anadol is the founder and director of Refik Anadol Studio and its research laboratory, RAS LAB, which focuses on exploring 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 1985 in Istanbul. His family provided him with strong support from childhood. His father was a manager and his mother a civil servant. Anadol lost his father at the age of 15 during a cardiac crisis. Other family members, especially his aunt and uncle, worked tirelessly to support him throughout his life. His grandfather, a strict judge, instilled in Anadol a strong sense of ethics and values within the family.

After completing his primary education at Kalev Primary School, he graduated from Kadıköy Anatolian High School. He then began his studies at Istanbul University in the Department of Photograph and Video, while 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 public sculptures. Over time, he shifted his focus to digital, art and artificial intelligence fields. Artist aims to create interactive and immersive experiences by integrating visual and auditory data with new media technologies. He has collaborated with major global corporations including Google, Microsoft, NASA, Intel, IBM, Nvidia, and Samsung on numerous international projects. Through his works, Anadol visualizes large datasets to demonstrate how perceptions of space and time have transformed in the digital age.

Following these successes, his artworks began to be exhibited in world-renowned exhibition venues and cultural institutions. He has received numerous international awards and gained significant acclaim.

Notable Works and Contributions

Anadol’s works challenge the boundaries of digital art and merge traditional artistic concepts with technology. His contributions using artificial intelligence, big data, and digital media are closely followed in the art world. Since founding his studio in 2015, Anadol has developed various projects utilizing artificial intelligence and large datasets. 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. He explores how the dominance of machines has fundamentally altered our perception of time and space. Anadol is interested in how digital interfaces and machine intelligence offer new aesthetic possibilities for creating enriched immersive environments and reshaping spatial perception.

Anadol proposes the concept of “data-digital architecture,” inviting viewers to reimagine the functionality of both interior and exterior architectural elements through alternative realities. 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.

Anadol’s site-specific three-dimensional data sculptures, paintings, live audiovisual performances, and installations, situated at the intersection of art and technology, take both virtual and physical forms, offering audiences new perspectives and narratives about their world.

Anadol’s work “Active Structures; Fluid 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), Hammer Museum (USA), and Artechouse New York (USA).

The Aether Project, Walt Disney – Los Angeles (2014). (Source: Art&Rea)

Machine Hallucinations, Seoul – South Korea (2019). (Source: Art&Rea)

Machine Memoirs: Space, Pilevneli Gallery – Istanbul (2021) (Source: Art&Rea)

Personal Life

Refik Anadol married Efsun Erkılıç while they were both students at Bilgi University. They have maintained a 13-year marriage. The couple continues to live together in Los Angeles and collaborate on artistic projects with their two close friends. Anadol frequently speaks about the contributions of his family to his art and life, emphasizing their importance.

Works

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, Istanbul, Türkiye
• Tree of Life – Realtime AI EU 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, 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 Center, Istanbul, Türkiye
• Machine Hallucinations – Renaissance Dreams, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
• Quantum Memories, Soma Onassis Exhibition, Athens, Greece
• Bosphorus – AI Data Sculpture, Brixen Light Festival, Germany
• Infinity Room, Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity at Kunsthalle – Praha, 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
• 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
• Metamorphosis Returns – Machine Hallucinations, Seoul, Korea
• Distant Arcades – Machine Hallucinations – Nature Dreams, MUTEK, Montreal, Canada
• 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 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, 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, 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 Session, Zurich, Switzerland
• Infinity Room, Volvo Art Session, 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 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, 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
• 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, 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 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 Exhibition, Warehouse 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
• Plum 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, Santa Fe University of Art and Design, New Mexico, USA

2011

• Augmented Structures v1.0, Building Credit 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 Capital of Culture, Essen, Germany

2009

• Quadrature, Contemporary Art Center – santralistanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye

Lectures and Courses

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 (Canvas 24 organized by Miro)
• Embracing AI and Blockchain As one Artist – 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, 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 Keynote
• 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 Received

• TIME100 AI Impact Awards (2025)
• Lorenzo il Magnifico Lifetime Achievement Award
• Lumen Prize Gold Award (2019)
• UCLA Edward A. Dickson Alumnus of the Year Award (2024)
• Presidential Grand Awards for Culture and Art (2023)