2024-11-21T11:29:26-05:00 https://archinect.com/features/article/150282476/can-a-building-dream-learn-and-hallucinate-a-conversation-with-refik-anadol Niall Patrick Walsh 2021-09-24T12:43:00-04:00 >2021-09-25T12:33:17-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ee/eed8857c3098530155387bd35e0bd763.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/680540/refik-anadol" target="_blank">Refik Anadol</a> has carved an eclectic career, rich with confluences. His work blurs the boundaries between art and science, the visible and invisible, the operational and emotional, the fleeting and permanent. The composition of this studio further demonstrates this confluence; housing artists, architects, data scientists, and researchers, drawn from 10 countries and fluent in 14 languages. Since establishing Refik Anadol Studio in 2014, the Istanbul-born artist has produced a litany of projects that celebrate, and define, the aesthetics of <a href="https://archinect.com/features/tag/1136495/artificial-intelligence" target="_blank">data and machine intelligence</a>, from his <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150089194/walt-disney-concert-hall-lights-up-over-the-weekend-with-projections-by-refik-anadol" target="_blank">installation at Frank Gehry&rsquo;s Walt Disney Concert Hall</a> in 2018 to his Sense of Space exhibition at the <a href="https://archinect.com/features/article/150271426/the-venice-biennale-pressed-pause-while-everyone-else-changed-the-game" target="_blank">2021 Venice Biennale</a>.</p> <p>Archinect&rsquo;s Niall Patrick Walsh spoke with Anadol in September 2021 at an exciting time for the artist: not only during his ongoing project at the Venice Biennale, but also on the eve of his latest milestone: a <a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/150281763/refik-anadol-unveils-first-of-its-kind-ai-artwork-nfts" target="_blank">first-of-its-kind NFT project</a> to be auctioned by Sotheby&rsquo;s Hong Kong. In the...</p> https://archinect.com/features/article/114130154/art-architecture-refik-anadol-at-walt-disney-concert-hall Nicholas Korody 2014-11-21T18:16:00-05:00 >2018-09-13T17:10:55-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/xe/xelb3fbkyiq3sok2.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The billowing wood panels of the concert hall imploded before my eyes, as if physically ripped apart by the thundering crescendos of&nbsp;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgard_Var%C3%A8se" target="_blank">Edgard Var&egrave;se</a>&rsquo;s <em>Am&eacute;riques. </em>One moment the massive organ was radically disfigured to the point of unrecognizability; the next, its forms re-emerged beneath the luminous, moving mesh mapped onto the structure by the artist Refik Anadol. For less than a half hour, the Walt Disney Concert Hall was transformed in an exhilarating synthesis of architecture, music and digital art: the first iteration of <a href="http://www.laphil.com/insight" target="_blank"><em>in/SIGHT</em></a>, a series of ongoing collaborations between video artists and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.</p> https://archinect.com/features/article/60113231/showcase-augmented-structures-v2-0-by-refik-anadol-alper-derinbogaz Archinect 2012-10-26T18:04:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/53/53790sxp4ewylp2f.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p> <a href="http://archinect.com/features/tag/1518/showcase" target="_blank"><strong>ShowCase</strong></a> is an on-going feature series on Archinect, presenting exciting new work from designers representing all creative fields and all geographies.</p> <p> <em>We are always accepting nominations for upcoming ShowCase features - if you would like to suggest a project, <a href="http://archinect.com/about/contact.php" target="_blank">please send us a message</a>.</em></p>