The award-winning Refik Anadol Studio has announced that DATALAND, the first-ever Museum of AI Arts, will be opening in 2025 at mixed-use destination The Grand LA. DATALAND will join the prestigious array of arts and cultural institutions that form downtown LA's Grand Arts Corridor, offering the community a revolutionary new space for expression and technological exploration. Refik Anadol Studio Co-Founders Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkiliç selected Los Angeles for DATALAND to expand upon the city's rich history as a home for creativity. “L.A. has long been a city that looks to the future in art, music, cinema, architecture and more, and it feels natural to open DATALAND here," Anadol said. "To have a permanent space for us to develop a new paradigm of what a museum can be, by fusing human imagination with machine intelligence and the most advanced technologies available, is a realization of one of my biggest dreams. To do so in a building designed by one of my heroes, Frank Gehry, is almost unbelievable."
Designed in collaboration with award-winning architecture firm Gensler, DATALAND's flagship location at The Grand LA will provide a cutting-edge space that will feature exhibits by creators of diverse disciplines. DATALAND will serve as a permanent home for visionary works that incorporate art, design and technology, exploring the bounds of human imagination and the creative capabilities of machines. One of the museum's first exhibitions will feature a unique AI model designed by Refik Anadol Studio called Large Nature Model. Using open access information from some of the world's top research institutions, Large Nature Model will generate original artwork using up to half a billion public images, becoming the world's first open source AI model completely based on nature. As more institutions add data sets and more people engage with Large Nature Model, the exhibit will adapt over time and offer new ways for the public to engage with the natural world.
