Unsupervised: Refik Anadol
Gold
Excellent Communications Design
Audiovisual
Details
For Unsupervised, Refik Anadol Studio used artificial intelligence to interpret and transform more than 200 years of art at MoMA to answer this question: What would a machine dream about after seeing the collection of The Museum of Modern Art? As the model “walks” through its conception of this vast range of works, it reimagines the history of modern art and dreams about what might have been—and what might be to come. The artwork was displayed on a large-scale media wall in MoMA’s ground-floor Gund Lobby between November 19, 2022 – October 29, 2023 and became the first artwork made in collaboration with generative AI to be added to the museum’s permanent collection.
The Jury‘s Statement
Unsupervised is an impressive example of the creative use of technology in an art and design context. The project asks the intriguing question of how a machine would dream after "seeing" MoMA's immense collection. For this, Refik Anadol Studio has developed a sophisticated AI model that interprets MoMA's publicly available data and creates an alternative history of modern art. Innovative, inspiring and never seen before in this way!
