{"id":30300,"date":"2025-08-29T07:30:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T07:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/30300\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T07:30:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T07:30:10","slug":"refik-anadol-the-100-most-influential-people-in-ai-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/30300\/","title":{"rendered":"Refik Anadol: The 100 Most Influential People in AI 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rich-text mb-6 self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">Anadol is among the most commercially successful artists to center AI in their practice: he has sold over $30 million worth of NFTs\u2014non-fungible tokens\u2014 donating a significant portion of the proceeds to charitable initiatives. In just the last year, he has had major exhibitions at Spain\u2019s Guggenheim Bilbao, Dubai\u2019s Museum of the Future, and the Kunsthaus Z\u00fcrich in Switzerland. \u201cWhen our work was <a href=\"https:\/\/observer.com\/2023\/10\/refik-anadols-unsupervised-is-now-part-of-momas-permanent-collection\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">collected<\/a> by the Museum of Modern Art,\u201d he says, \u201cI realized we are in the art canon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-text mb-6 self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">Now embraced by the art world\u2019s major institutions, Anadol is building his own. In Los Angeles, his <a href=\"https:\/\/dataland.art\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dataland<\/a>\u2014the \u201cworld\u2019s first museum of AI arts\u201d\u2014is set to open later this year. In his view, many artists are limited not by a lack of ideas, but a lack of access to computational resources; the museum will offer residency and art collection programs to bridge this divide. \u201cWe need an institution like Dataland to really unlock creativity without being unequal,\u201d he says. His hope is to \u201cgive this thinking brush to other artists.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-text self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mb-0 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">Seen by some as a technical pioneer, Anadol often works with partners like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/research\/ai-art-gallery\/artists\/refik-anadol\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nvidia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/design.samsung.com\/global\/contents\/micro-led-screen-identity\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samsung<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/refikanadol.com\/works\/quantummemories\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google<\/a> to make dazzling art accessible to millions, while offering an optimistic vision of human-machine collaboration. While some critics have <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/refik-anadol-unsupervised-moma-2242329\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">argued<\/a> that his work is aesthetically pleasing but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-flux.com\/criticism\/527236\/refik-anadol-s-unsupervised?utm_source=chatgpt.com&amp;__readwiseLocation=\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">uncritically<\/a> celebrates a divisive technology, Anadol says that his work is about pushing the limits of the medium while evoking joy and hope. \u201cOur work is absolutely not aesthetics only,\u201d he says. \u201cWe always try to create societal impact.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anadol is among the most commercially successful artists to center AI in their practice: he has sold over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30301,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[23267,365,362,363,364,366,18,117,23268,19,17,23269,361,23270,23271,23266],"class_list":{"0":"post-30300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-accolades","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-artsdesign","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-eire","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-franchise","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-list","20":"tag-magazine","21":"tag-special-project","22":"tag-sponsorshipblock","23":"tag-time100-ai-2025"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30300\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}