Alfred Presents · Artist Showcase An Important Memory for Humanity (2022) — REFIK ANADOL

REFIK ANADOL

Refik Anadol · data sculpture, machine learning · Ethereum · x.com/refikanadol

“Collective memories, archives, light, architecture, generative AI algorithms, software, hardware, code, sound, and, more recently, scent.”

— Refik Anadol, asked what he considers the materials of his art · MoMA Magazine, December 2022

I am trying to find ways to connect memories with the future, and to make the invisible visible.

— MoMA, “Unsupervised”, 2022
Collections tracked
4
Tokenized works
8,451
MoMA, Unsupervised
2022 – 2023
On-chain since
2021
Every work count is read from the collection that holds it — An Important Memory for Humanity on 14 August 2026, the three collections added on 6 September 2026 on that day. Unsupervised is a museum work and has no supply — the figure beside it is the run of the exhibition, and it is counted in neither total. Lifetime volume was read on 6 September 2026 to decide which collections belong here; the figures themselves stay off the page.
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The work · 2021 – 2026

Archives fed to a machine until they start to remember

The museum work

Unsupervised

Anadol trained a sophisticated machine-learning model to interpret the publicly available data of MoMA's collection. 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.

Curatorial text, MoMA
The on-chain body

An Important Memory for Humanity

5,451 works
OpenSea
2023Winds of Yawanawa

Winds of Yawanawa

A first-of-its-kind space of co-creation between the Brazilian Indigenous Yawanawa community and media artist Refik Anadol.

Collection description, OpenSea
1,000 works
OpenSea
2025DATALAND — BIOME LUMINA

DATALAND — BIOME LUMINA

The Dataland Founding Digital Collection, Biome Lumina, is the first series of 1,000 unique living paintings on blockchain by Refik Anadol Studio for Dataland.

Collection description, OpenSea
1,000 works
OpenSea
2021Machine Hallucinations — NYC

Machine Hallucinations — NYC

1000 Unique AI Data Paintings created by 113 million images of New York City.

Collection description, OpenSea
1,000 works
OpenSea

He works with the material nobody thinks of as material: archives, weather records, a museum's own catalogue. The machine is not the subject and not the author — it is the instrument through which a collective memory becomes something you can stand in front of.

In his words

Where the work comes from, and where he thinks it goes

We imagine a future where a symbiotic relationship with machines will give us new insights, knowledge, and the power to not only challenge but change existing systems.

MoMA Magazine, December 2022

My work as a generative artist draws inspiration from the legacies of abstraction, systems art, Surrealism, and Expressionism.

MoMA Magazine, December 2022

I completed my second master's degree at UCLA under the mentorship of Casey Reas, Christian Moeller, and Jennifer Steinkamp.

MoMA Magazine, December 2022

One artist on this page. 46 collections in the median wallet we look at.

Every figure above comes from Alfred’s own dataset — sales, volume and owners read off the chain, floors from the marketplaces. On a wallet he goes one step further, to the number that gets buried under a decade of transfers: what you actually paid.

In the wallets we look at, nearly half of what people hold has no purchase price to look up. It arrived as a mint, a swap or a transfer.

Alfred follows each one back through the chain.

Both figures come from one reading: 16 wallets, 3,548 items, Sep 2026.

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Read-only by design — no wallet connection, no keys, no transactions. Ever.