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
An Important Memory for Humanity, works
5,451
MoMA, Unsupervised
2022 – 2023
On-chain since
2022
The work count is read from the collection itself on 14 August 2026. No volume or sales figure is shown: the stats endpoint answered 429 for the whole build run, and an estimate is not a measurement. Unsupervised is a museum work and has no supply — the figure beside it is the run of the exhibition.
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The work · 2022 – 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

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

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