https://refikanadol.com/works/machine-hallucination/
Refik Anadol is the creator of Machine Hallucination, which was located in Artechouse NYC, New York. Machine Hallucination was an attempt at “revealing new connections between visual narrative, archival instinct and collective consciousness”. I’m not entirely sure what all of that means, but I interpret it as discovering new ways to visually represent memories. The exhibition itself is a “data universe” that Anadol created by feeing 100 million photographic memories of NYC to machine learning algorithms. The result is projected into a room and it tells a story through its massive archive of memories. The artwork itself is a 30-minute experimental cinema in 16K resolution and it visualizes the story of New York through it’s collective memories. What’s interesting is that the story being told is about the future where a hopeful relationship between man and machine will grow. I was originally drawn to it because it looked amazing and without a doubt it is amazing to look at. But now I’m more interested in the experience of being in the room.