New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has unveiled details of an upcoming exhibition featuring the work of media artist Refik Anadol. Titled Refik Anadol: Unsupervised, and open from November 19th, 2022 through March 5th 2023, the installation will feature three new digital artworks by the artist.

Anadol’s three new pieces will use artificial intelligence to interpret more than 200 years of art from MoMA’s collection. Located on the museum’s ground floor, a 24 x 24-foot media wall will continuously generate new forms grounded in the intersection between technology, creativity, and modern art.

“This project reshapes the relationship between the physical and the virtual, the real and the unreal,” said the exhibition’s organizer Michelle Kuo. “Often, AI is used to classify, process, and generate realistic representations of the world. Anadol’s work, by contrast, is visionary: it explores dreams, hallucination, and irrationality, posing an alternate understanding of modern art—and of artmaking itself.”

While Unsupervised will constitute Anadol’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States, it will not be his first engagement with MoMA. In 2021, Anadol presented an online exhibition on the digital art platform Feral File, which saw a machine-learning model interpret the publicly available visual and informational data of MoMA’s collection.

The resulting exhibition continuously generated new images as the machine-learning model ‘walked’ through the collection, “reimagining the trajectory of modern art, paying homage to its history, and dreaming about its future.”

Unsupervised will see Anadol return to the 2021 artworks to incorporate real-time physical considerations such as changes in light, movement, volume, and the weather, all of which will impact the digital imagery. “The history of modern art will be transformed by the liveness of public space in the present,” the museum explained.

The exhibition is the latest development in Anadol’s career. In May, an Anadol-designed NFT of the Casa Batlló sold for $1.38 million, while in September 2021, the artist unveiled a ‘first of its kind’ AI NFT artwork collection to be auctioned by Sotheby’s Hong Kong.

Also in September 2021, Archinect spoke with Anadol for a wide-ranging interview on the artist’s life and career, including his views on architecture and technology.