Refik Anadol announced that he would be the first artist to use the fully programmable LED appearance of Sphere in Las Vegas, as an immersive canvas, introducing an AI Data Sculpture for Sphere called “Machine Hallucination: Sphere.”
Refik Anadol is a visionary media artist, director, and pioneer of the aesthetics of machine intelligence. He uses a large collection of public data and machine learning algorithms to create fascinating, dynamic, and immersive art installations. Anadol is the founder of Refik Anadol Studio, an award-winning technology-driven creative design studio based in Los Angeles. Anadol’s work has been exhibited on six continents, including some of the world’s most prominent art venues, such as New York MoMA, Miami Art Basel, and Paris Center Georges Pompidou.
Machine hallucinations: Spear, an immersive digital experience, Spear celebrates Spear’s unique architecture by featuring dynamic visualizations using vast amounts of data to create abstract images of space and nature. The two-page series, referred to by Anadol as “AI Data Sculptures,” creates a collective, meditative, and multi-sensory experience that will take the audience on a journey of light, movement and color with vivid pigments, shapes and patterns. This immersive experience allows viewers to imagine alternative realities constructed by invisible data movements around them. 토토사이트
“It’s a great honor to be the first artist to take advantage of the look of vSphere,” said Anadol. “It’s very exciting to be offered this architectural and engineering wonder like a canvas. This opportunity is perfectly in line with our studio’s long-term mission to incorporate media art into architecture to create living architectural works that interact constantly with the environment.”
“Lepik Anadol’s artistic approach has made him the ideal artist to be the first to partner in showcasing his amazing work, using Exosphere’s full capacity, an incomparable canvas for artists who want to explore their artistic expressions on the world stage and break the boundaries of what is possible,” said Spear Entertainment’s senior vice president of brand strategy and creative development. “With the fascinating power of the Exosphere and our unwavering commitment to presenting both art and brand to the outside of Spear, we will forever change the way art and commerce coexist.”
Mechanical hallucinations are an ongoing exploration of data aesthetics based on collective visual memories of space, nature, and urban environments. “Lepik Anadol’s artistic approach has made him the ideal artist to be the first to partner in showcasing his amazing work, using Exosphere’s full capacity, an incomparable canvas for artists who want to explore their artistic expressions on the world stage and break the boundaries of what is possible,” said Spear Entertainment’s senior vice president of brand strategy and creative development. “With the fascinating power of the Exosphere and our unwavering commitment to presenting both art and brand to the outside of Spear, we will forever change the way art and commerce coexist.”
Mechanical hallucinations are an ongoing exploration of data aesthetics based on collective visual memories of space, natural and urban environments. For this project, Anadol and his team used the theme dataset as a component for two different chapters:
Mechanical hallucinations: the universe is a visual speculation of humanity’s historic attempt based on NASA’s collaboration with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which utilizes publicly available photographs taken by satellites and spacecraft, including millions of raw images captured and recorded by the International Space Station and Hubble.
Mechanical hallucinations: Nature uses over 300 million publicly available pictures of animals and plants to generate pigments, shapes, and patterns that we associate with nature, but only exists in the mind of machines as ” hallucinations”. The second half of this chapter consists of Sphere: Winds of Las Vegas, which utilizes wind and gust speed, precipitation, and barometric data sets collected from real-time API wind sensors in Las Vegas.
Spear is the next generation of entertainment media that will bring wonders to the world and redefine the future of live entertainment. It’s a venue where the best artists, creators, and technicians can take storytelling to a new level and create a special experience that takes the audience to both real and imagined places. The venue will feature original spear experiences from leading Hollywood directors, concerts and residences by the world’s largest artists, and premier market events.
The entire exterior surface of Sphere, called Exosphere, is covered with nearly 580,000 square feet of fully programmable LED panels, which provide effective displays for artists, brands and partners. The Exosphere consists of approximately 1.2 million LED pucks and is spaced 8 inches apart. Each puck has 48 individual LED diodes, each displaying 256 million different colors, giving the Las Vegas skyline a vivid and new landmark.