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\n\tIn 2026, a museum dedicated to AI art feels inevitable. And on June 20, one will open in Los Angeles. DATALAND\u2014tag line: Where human imagination meets the creative potential of machines<\/em>\u2014was announced in the fall of 2024, and will open in the Grand LA, a mixed-use complex in downtown Los Angeles designed by Frank Gehry.<\/p>\n \n\tDATALAND was co-founded by Refik Anadol, the digital art pioneer who came to fame in 2022 thanks to his wildly popular generative art installation Underpervised<\/em> in the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art, and Efsun Erk\u0131l\u0131\u00e7, a painter and art producer. Both artists are Turkish, but have lived and worked in LA for years; they co-founded Anadol\u2019s studio in the city in 2014.<\/p>\n \n\t\u00a0\u201cLA is the center of creativity,\u201d Anadol said in a statement. \u201cIt is a city that defines the future of art, music, cinema, architecture, and more, and we can\u2019t wait to open DATALAND\u2019s flagship location in our adopted home.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe museum will include five gallery spaces that will cover 25,000 total square feet; an additional 10,000 square feet are set aside for the technologies and hardware required to run the type of cutting edge digital art that will be on view at DATALAND.<\/p>\n \n\tDATALAND\u2019S first show, naturally, is a Refik Anadol Studio project. \u201cMachine Dreams: Rainforest\u201d will utilize artificial intelligence (in this case, a model trained on various ecological datasets) to \u201ctranslate the intelligence of the natural world into interrelated sensory experiences.\u201d The show will be on view through Jan. 31, 2027. There will even be a version of Anadol\u2019s long-running Infinity Room<\/em>, but instead of Kusama-style mirrored rooms filled with lights and spherical objects, DATALAND visitors will hear a 1987 recording of the now-extinct Hawaiian bird species and smell AI-generated scents.<\/p>\n \n\tThere is no ticketing information available on the DATALAND website, just the option to sign up for presale information. Membership starts at $350\/year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/refik-anadol-ai-art-museum-dataland-open-los-angeles-june-1234782560\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/56632b06-67a5-4cef-be45-7b79afc5bfb8.jpg?w=1024″] In 2026, a museum dedicated to AI art feels inevitable. And on June 20, one will open in Los Angeles. DATALAND\u2014tag line: Where human imagination meets the creative potential of machines\u2014was announced in the fall of 2024, and will open in the Grand LA, a mixed-use complex in downtown Los Angeles designed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-1901001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1901001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1901001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1901001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1901001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}