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

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.