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Artist Turns Data Into Art, With Help From AI
One theme of Refik Anadol's work is the symbiosis and tension between people and machines. Giant stashes of data are valuable assets to corporations in industries from fossil fuels to finance. Artist Refik Anadol sees pools of data as something else--material for what he calls a new kind of "sculpture." Anadol creates mesmerizing art installations by seeking out interesting data sets and processing them into swirling visualizations of how computers capture the world and people in it. He uses machine learning algorithms to filter or expand on his raw material.