A synthetic intelligence (AI) exhibition of a special dimension has arrived. It’s being held on the Futura Seoul Exhibition Hall in Bukchon, Seoul under the title ‘Repic Anadol – Echo of the Earth: Living Archive’.
Futura Seoul introduced this exhibition as “an exhibition that satisfies each visual impact and philosophical meaning.” From the preparation period, it was explained that the dimensions was different from existing exhibitions.
Futura Seoul curator Yongjun Choi said, “All exhibited works are based on the ‘Large Nature Model’ built over a period of greater than three years.” LNM is the results of collecting data related to nature and learning it right into a model.
Refik Anadol is a world-renowned media artist from Turkiye and a representative figure pursuing ‘AI aesthetics’.
It is understood that NVIDIA and Google, which sympathized together with his project, provided infrastructure support for LNM construction. A separate exhibition hall can also be scheduled to open in Los Angeles next yr.
The explanation it attracted the eye of massive tech like this was because “AI was used as a real tool, fairly than simply using AI as a keyword.”
He also explained that AI, which builds nature and the world with data, will be used like ‘Noah’s Ark’ to convey the current to future generations. Even today, there are countless plants and animals which are on the verge of extinction.
Refik Anadol explains that it used AI as a ‘tool for recording and art.’ The information he collected while traveling world wide for 2 years amounts to 600 million images. Afterwards, LNM was accomplished over three years, including one yr for data purification and model training.
Not only visual data was collected. We learned AI by converting soil moisture, wind strength and direction, and even natural scents into data. The truth is, once you enter the exhibition hall, a refreshing scent wafts around, and this can also be explained as a scent created by LNM.
Repik Anadol Artist’s art team, ‘Repic Studio’, is understood to have more engineers than pure artists. Which means loads of attention was paid to the technical points.
Futura Seoul also revealed the explanation for putting AI on the forefront.
Curator Choi said, “Some people say that selecting an AI exhibition because the opening exhibition is unconventional, however it is definitely the results of focusing more on the essence and message. Above all, I feel it may possibly be a turning point for AI to operate as an inventive tool.” He said.
Futura Seoul revealed that it was excited about Refik Anadol’s work even before he began using AI in earnest. It’s explained that he was a representative artist who had previously carried out artistic activities based on data and media.
Curator Choi said, “AI gives a really visually overwhelming feeling and impression,” and said that there are pros and cons.
“But should you compare it to the appearance of cameras, you may have the opportunity to give it some thought otherwise,” he added. Even when cameras first appeared, there have been individuals who claimed that ‘the era of images is over.’
Nonetheless, the camera coexists with the present brush. Moreover, different productions are possible depending on illuminance, brightness, angle, etc.
He said, “Repic is just solving problems that humanity has not been in a position to solve with AI,” and added, “If good humanity uses AI with an excellent heart, it would have the opportunity to resolve many difficult problems or create completely recent art.”
Corals appear rather a lot in exhibitions, however it is alleged that 75% of corals are already extinct. It is very likely that even that will probably be difficult to see in the longer term. LNM is one in all the tools that may best reproduce the looks of corals in the longer term.
The work that left the strongest impression was one which used ‘AI hallucinations.’ The prompt “Attempt to hallucinate and create nature” was entered into the finished LNM.
Kim Hyun-mi, curator at Futura Seoul, said, “From a technical perspective, when a model makes an error, it is known as a ‘hallucination,’ but from an inventive perspective, it implies that hallucination will also be a type of art.”
Images of nature that change every moment, and even works that express the ocean and wind with various textures.
Refik Anadol’s exhibition will be seen at Futura Seoul until January tenth.
Yongjun Choi, curator at Futura Seoul, said, “Just as Nam June Paik created innovation when he brought TV into the art market, Repik Anadol appears to be playing that role now.”
Reporter Jang Se-min semim99@aitimes.com
