Experiential installation at MOMA, running from November 2022 – March 2023. Artwork engages audience via sensor based and self-regenerating content that uses AI algorithm trained on MOMA’s publicly available metadata embeddings on 7 meter square LED screen in the museum’s central interior courtyard. Worked with artist to design exhibition space, delivered design documents of concept for board review and other stakeholders, created 3D assets for internal design development of artwork, and created project renders and visualization for PR/Publications.

Curatorial Text:

Unsupervised is a meditation on technology, creativity, and modern art. 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. In turn, Anadol incorporates site-specific input from the environment of the Museum’s Gund Lobby—changes in light, movement, acoustics, and the weather outside—to affect the continuously shifting imagery and sound.

AI is often used to classify, process, and generate realistic representations of the world. In contrast, Unsupervised is visionary: it explores fantasy, hallucination, and irrationality, creating an alternate understanding of art-making itself. The installation is based on works that are encoded on the blockchain, a distributed digital ledger, which stands as a public record of Anadol’s art. “I am trying to find ways to connect memories with the future,” the artist has said, “and to make the invisible visible.”