An AI's 'Dreams' Become an Immersive Art Exhibit That Reimagines New York

That awe-inspiring quality was part of what Turkish new media artist Refik Anadol sought to spell out--in a medium of appropriately grand scale--with his new exhibition. The installation, put on by experiential art organization Artechouse, is a two-story empty room in Lower Manhattan bathed from floor to ceiling in high-resolution, laser-projected video. Through reality-bending graphics that ripple across the walls, Machine Hallucinations traces Anadol's own process of training a machine learning system, from data collection to image recognition to a point where the neural network can create its own art, of sorts. "We use this algorithm to narrate the story," Anadol told Adweek. "My personal challenge was, 'How can we learn what machines learn?' So this was a way of putting a camera in the mind of a machine and finding the memory points and connecting them to create a dream."