The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City has acquired “Unsupervised—Machine Hallucinations”—a generative artwork that utilizes AI to create visual designs inspired by the museum’s archives—for its permanent collection.
The piece was created by Turkish digital artist Refik Anadol for MoMA last year. For it, Anadol constructed a sophisticated machine learning model designed to take in over 200 years of art from the museum’s catalog, and then output a series of ever-shifting audiovisuals that reinterpret, alter, and riff on those original works.
Changes in light, movement, acoustics, and even weather constantly shift the work’s appearance and sound. It’s currently on display in the MoMA lobby until October 29, after previously having its exhibition extended as it attracted crowds to sit and watch the ever-changing view.
The New Yorker called it “one of the most crowd-pleasing—and controversial—exhibitions in New York City.” While the pulsing, 24-foot-tall video artwork has
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