Fotografiska, the celebrated photography museum in Stockholm, Sweden, is now exhibiting a site-specific installation by Turkish media artist and director Refik Anadol. 

Titled Latent History, the exhibition mainly consists of an interpolation of hundreds of thousands of photos of Stockholm's streetscapes onto a 180-foot-wide screen in Fotografiska’s large exhibition hall. Put simply, the film is "a machine’s interpretation of information from the City of Stockholm’s archives, Stockholmskällan, and the Swedish National Heritage Board’s archive, K-samsök, also known as SOCH (Swedish Open Cultural Heritage)," according to the curators of the exhibition. The film, in other words, images of Stockholm are fed into an algorithm of Anadol's design that 'reveals' the images in between them.

As Anadol explains, Latent History explores "photographic memories from the past 150 years and offer the viewer a chance to experience something completely new. A re-imagining of the development of modern-day Stockholm, a latent source of information waiting to be revealed. Latent History reveals the old that would otherwise remain unprocessed and unseen in dark archives. Individuals and collectives, bodies and spaces, that have coalesced to create the city we experience today."

Latent History will be on view until August 25th.

Dear friends, I’m extremely excited for our current research for “Latent Cinema” idea. This piece is narrated from ~300k collective photographic memories of Stockholm. Our GAN browser practically opens a camera into the space in the mind of a machine. pic.twitter.com/M6RhBibnYg

— Refik Anadol (@refikanadol) July 1, 2019