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Viewing: Join AI pioneer Refik Anadol’s digital voyage beneath the sea

The Wick Culture - Refik Anadol, Artificial Realities: Coral, 2023. Courtesy Refik Anadol Studios

Above Refik Anadol, Artificial Realities: Coral, 2023. Courtesy Refik Anadol Studios

The Wick Culture - Refik Anadol by Efsun Erkilic

Above Refik Anadol by Efsun Erkilic

Above Refik Anadol, Artificial Realities: Coral, 2023. Courtesy Refik Anadol Studios

Above Refik Anadol by Efsun Erkilic

Above Refik Anadol, Artificial Realities: Coral, 2023. Courtesy Refik Anadol Studios

Refik Anadol – Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive

Serpentine North, W Carriage Dr, London W2 2AR
16 February – 19 April 2024

Visitors to Refik Anadol’s new London exhibition Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive will find themselves plunged into an underwater landscape and immersed in a forest inside the Serpentine North. The Turkish artist, technologist and AI pioneer trained a unique AI model with approximately five billion images of corals openly accessible online to create his new sound and video experience “Artificial Realities: Coral” (2023). The AI generates abstracted coral images to construct new visuals and colour combinations based on the datasets, transporting viewers to the sea’s watery depths.

Anadol’s Serpentine solo also includes the first UK showing of “Living Archive: Nature,” first exhibited at the World Economic Forum in Davos this year, turning part of the gallery into the AI model’s interpretation of a rainforest, complete with data of flora, fungi and fauna from 16 rainforest sites around the world. Through these installations, Anadol explores the ways in which technology dominates our daily lives, transforming the ways we perceive and experience time and space. Prepare to be mesmerised.

Viewing The Ralph Saltzman Prize: an annual barometer of design ingenuity

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The Ralph Saltzman Prize 2024

Design Museum
1 February – 15 April 2024

London-based designer Attua Aparicio has scooped the Design Museum’s coveted Ralph Saltzman Prize 2024 for her ingenious confections of clay and borosilicate glass waste – a byproduct of scientific glass making. See her glistening furniture, vessels and lighting at the Design Museum.

The prize is an annual barometer of emerging design talent, awarded to mark the legacy of Ralph Saltzman, a design innovator who founded Designtex. Spanish-born winner Aparicio is a multidisciplinary artist whose work blurs the boundaries between design, craft and art with an inventive and playful spirit. The borosilicate glass gives a delicious lustre to her delightfully lumpen vases and towering furniture. Experience their charm at the Design Museum until 15 April.

Viewing The inner workings of Douglas Gordon’s brain at Gagosian