Refik Anadol’s most recent synesthetic reality experiments on dreams and hallucinations reveal new connections between visual narrative, archival instinct, and collective consciousness. He focuses on latent cinematic experiences derived from representations of photographic memories as they are re-imagined by machine intelligence. Transforming a vast data set from the visual archives of International Space Station (ISS) into a dynamic data painting, this new iteration of Anadol explores artificial intelligence’s capacity to reach its own subconscious and offers an avant- garde form of cartographic aesthetics. ISS Dreams utilizes over 1.2 million images captured from the International Space St...