For “Unsupervised — Machine Hallucinations — MoMA Fluid Dreams,” Refik Anadol Studio synthesized the vast data collected from the MoMA archive into ethereal data pigments, and eventually into a representational form of fluid-inspired movements with the help of generative algorithms and a custom software called Latent Space Browser, which the studio has been developing since 2017. Thus, Anadol’s signature fluid dynamics algorithm infinitely dreams about the MoMA archive.
Fluid dynamics has been a source of artistic inspiration for Anadol since the inception of his broader project, Machine Hallucinations. The artist’s exploration of digital pigmentation and light through fluid solver algorit...