Refik Anadol, known for turning data into swirling, colorful digital masterpieces, is now showcasing his art inside a historic tunnel in Gorizia, Italy.
Housed at the Galleria Bombi, which had also been an air-raid shelter, Anadol’s ‘Data Tunnel’ will be featured in 100 meters of HD LED in 925 square meters of space. The 148-million pixel creation exceeds that of the Las Vegas Sphere, according to collaborator M-Cube, in a LinkedIn post.
Called Digital Art Gallery (DAG), the tunnel is said to be the “longest immersive digital gallery in the world,” according to M-Cube. The exhibit opened in mid-December and is free to the public.
Anadol uses large datasets, such as museum archives, and feeds them into machine-learning models to explore the textures, rhythms and correlations embedded within. The models then generate abstracted interpretations, which are translated into fields of shifting, colorful pixels.
To create ‘Data Tunnel,’ Anadol used his AI model trained on proprietary datasets from nature. His exhibit will be displayed for a year, according to MEET, an Italian digital culture organization.
Anadol’s work is featured worldwide, including at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Centre Pompidou in Paris and other notable venues.
