, Media Artist and Director, Refik Anadol Studio, LLC
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Refik Anadol, the director of Refik Anadol Studio in Los Angeles, will present his team’s latest project from the studio’s multi-year research unit: Machine Hallucinations. Machine Hallucinations is ongoing AI research of data aesthetics based on collective memories of space, urban life, and nature since 2016. The project currently focuses on StyleGAN2 with adaptive discriminator augmentation (ADA) as well as a Latent Space Browser — custom software by Refik Anadol Studio that's been in development since 2007. Unsupervised, Machine Hallucinations: Moma processes 138,151 pieces of publicly available metadata from the vast collection of the Museum of Modern Art in the mind of a machine. Using StyleGAN2 ADA to capture the machine’s "hallucinations" of modern art in a multidimensional space, we trained a unique AI model with subsets of the archive of MoMA’s collection of artworks, creating embeddings in 1,024 dimensions.