DATALAND, billed as the world’s first museum dedicated to AI-generated art, will open to the public Saturday in downtown Los Angeles.
The museum, co-founded by media artist Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkilic, debuts with “Machine Dreams: Rainforest,” an exhibition that uses AI trained on ecological data to create evolving visual, audio and sensory experiences inspired by rainforest ecosystems, according to organizers.
The exhibition will remain on view through Jan. 31.
Spanning five galleries and 25,000 square feet, the museum features installations including an Infinity Room, a Data Pavilion animated by dozens of projectors and interactive exhibits that allow visitors to explore data used to create the artworks, organizers said.
Visitors may also choose to wear biosensing devices that measure physiological responses and help shape portions of the experience in real time.
“For many years, we have dreamed of a place where audience and artwork could merge — a laboratory of imagination where we can explore burgeoning new artforms,” Anadol said in a statement announcing the opening.
The museum is located at The Grand LA, 100 S. Grand Ave., in the city’s Grand Avenue Cultural District near The Broad, the Music Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art.
“Over the past decade, our studio has been fortunate to learn from extraordinary teachers, mentors, collaborators, and heroes whose work has helped shape the cultural landscape,” Erkilic said. “We see DATALAND as a bridge between the visionaries who shaped our past and the creative possibilities of our future.”
Museum officials said details about DATALAND’s first artist residency program, developed in partnership with Google Arts & Culture, will be announced next month.