#Hallucination video archive
#Hallucination video software

I think we are trying to invent a new story, a new narrative that we have never seen before, and it’s just so exciting! In cinema you have architecture, biology, music, physics, philosophy, everything that life consists. This is because I am fascinated with cinema, and it is one of my favorite mediums ever as it really can allow the director to create a reality.

Can you reconstruct dreams? Can you create a dream space where these memories become alive? It is very much like a science fiction story. What I find really fascinating is that once a machine has this enormous beautiful information, it stimulates the idea of whether you can reconstruct the memory.

#Hallucination video software

We are using one of the most cutting-edge algorithms, hardware and software capacity, to make art purely. But here, we are using data to create a story of our collective memories. Therefore, I want to be super transparent about the process because we all know that the data we are creating every single day poses huge questions like who is using it, how is it stored, who owns it and all these big questions of propriety. I am very sensitive to privacy, and I am very critical about the future of data and technology, so we even have another AI, which goes and finds people and erases them. All the data is public, like if AI can go online and write New York, what it would actually learn. We were able to collect an enormous corpus of data of photographic memories. So, to understand this much better, we really challenged ourselves and looked for New York in pretty much every social network available, from Instagram, Flicker, Google images, literally anything available publicly. Culture is embedded in our collective memory. RA: I am very inspired by our memories, not individual memories but collective memories, like how we perceive a city, architecture, landscapes, streets, and daily life. SG: Could you talk a little about your process of working on this project? Still 3, Machine Hallucination Image Credit: Refik Anadol But for this project, I wanted to push something much deeper and as a team we were able to collect 100 million images of New York. I am dreaming to give a kind of cognitive capacity to architecture, meaning can I build a dream? Can it learn? Can it remember? These kinds of very human cognitive skills is my way of storytelling.

But my work is always about architecture. Over the last three years, as a studio, we have pioneered many art installations using machine intelligence to create new stories, new narratives. This is because a machine can learn like a human in the sense that it can mimic our cognitive skills and then using it as a pigment, what it learns can become the material. So, I am very inspired by many things but specifically what I really enjoyed is, once AI started becoming available for artists to dream, it basically allowed me to work with a kind of consciousness. In 2016, however, before the Disney Dreams project, there was another project of archives and memories, depicting the future of a library.

#Hallucination video archive

My team and I were trained by them to work on the world’s first AI installation three years ago - Archive Dreaming. Three years ago, I was very fortunate as I was an artist-in-residence at Google and I was able to work with one of the most wonderful engineers using AI algorithms. SG: How long have you been working on this project? Still 2, Machine Hallucination Image Credit: Refik Anadol So, I think it is very exciting to do a project about New York in New York. New York is one of the world’s most amazing city with its history and its context. Sometimes I feel like cities are more important than countries, because these are much more lively and cross many cultures of people. Inside them are the memories, the emotions, the past, the history, architecture, everything. Cities are a big inspiration for me because I find them like a living organism. This beautiful place is in Chelsea market, a boiler room with fantastic 18 channel projections, 32 channel sound system meaning it’s a fantastic canvas for an artist to dream.īut I think my obsession about the city started before. With ARTECHOUSE, I have another exhibition right now in Washington DC, that was focusing on my earlier work using data and machine learning as well, but this ( Machine Hallucination) is a whole new challenge, whole new canvas. Refik Anadol (RA): It is actually because of ARTECHOUSE it is a very interesting collaboration. Sukanya Garg (SG): Why New York? What inspired you to choose this city for the project Machine Hallucination? 01 min watch Teaser - Machine Hallucination Video Credit: Refik Anadol