{"id":327427,"date":"2025-10-23T21:20:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/327427\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T21:20:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:20:21","slug":"l-a-s-ai-art-museum-dataland-is-opening-next-spring-with-a-trippy-infinity-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/327427\/","title":{"rendered":"L.A.\u2019s AI art museum DATALAND is opening next spring\u2014with a trippy infinity room"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chances are, you either see AI as an indispensable tool or a fundamental threat\u2014it\u2019s the type of technology that doesn\u2019t seem to inspire many middle-of-the-road takes right now. But\u00a0set aside your love or hate for ChatGPT for a few minutes to consider a very different sort of AI application.<\/p>\n

DATALAND<\/a>, which has dubbed itself the world\u2019s first museum of AI arts, announced that it\u2019ll debut in Downtown L.A. in spring 2026 (a bit later than its initial 2025 goal<\/a>). The Refik Anadol Studio\u2013helmed space will set up at the Grand L.A., the Frank Gehry\u2013designed mixed-use complex across the street from the Walt Disney Concert Hall<\/a> (which Anadol blanketed in projections<\/a> back in 2018).<\/p>\n

Turkish-born, L.A.-based artist Refik Anadol and his wife and studio cofounder Efsun Erk\u0131l\u0131\u00e7 have been translating troves of data into morphing images and rippling particles for about a decade. And DATALAND will house an installation inspired by one of Anadol\u2019s very first pieces, an Infinity Room that he designed in 2014 at UCLA and debuted the following year\u00a0as a piece of\u00a0floor-to-ceiling projection. This latest iteration of his Infinity Room will incorporate AI-generated scents into the fold, pulled from the studio\u2019s Large Nature Model\u2014an open-source repository trained on audio, visual and environmental data from 16 rainforests across the planet.<\/p>\n

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The Infinity Room will anchor one of the five galleries within DATALAND\u2019s 25,000-square-foot venue. While we don\u2019t know much about the rest of the space quite yet\u2014a press release notes that ticketing, membership and exhibition info will arrive \u201cin the coming months\u201d\u2014we do know that DATALAND will partner with Google Arts & Culture for an artist residency program<\/a>; three artists will be chosen for a six-month collaboration that\u2019ll culminate in their pieces going on public display at DATALAND.<\/p>\n

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\n\u00a9Refik Anadol StudioGallery C \u2013 Infinity Room at DATALAND <\/p>\n

There\u2019s a chance that you\u2019ve already come across one of Anadol\u2019s video installations in L.A., either projected onto\u00a0the\u00a0side of a Downtown building<\/a>, housed\u00a0within a Hollywood gallery<\/a>\u00a0or illuminated\u00a0in front of the Clippers\u2019 arena<\/a>. If you haven\u2019t, I\u2019m not about to start lecturing you one way or another on how you should feel about the merits of AI art. But I will say that, based on my previous encounters with Anadol\u2019s mesmerizing work, it\u2019s at least worth pointing out that his data-driven, AI-enhanced art shouldn\u2019t be conflated with the sort of low-effort AI slop\u2014crying kittens, questionable cartoon character ripoffs and excrement-unloading fighter jets\u2014that\u2019s quickly consumed the Internet.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ll have to wait until next year in order to fully immerse yourself in what DATALAND has to say about AI art, but in the meantime, if you head over to the free\u00a0Grand Ave Arts: All Access<\/a> this Saturday, you can get a glimpse of what\u2019s in store during a pop-up at the Grand<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chances are, you either see AI as an indispensable tool or a fundamental threat\u2014it\u2019s the type of technology…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":327428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1037,1582,276,29645,2961,224,5337,29646],"class_list":{"0":"post-327427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-art","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-categories-art","12":"tag-la","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-losangeles","15":"tag-news-art"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115425576607576529","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}