The Las Vegas sphere is a revolutionary venue that blends modern technology, immersive digital art, and live entertainment. The sphere is made up of a 580,000 square foot programmable LED screen used as a 360 degree canvas for a lineup of artists worldwide. One of those artists is named Refik Anadol, a renowned media artist and director, known for his groundbreaking work in the field of AI-driven art, immersive installations, and data visualization. One of Anadol’s most high profile projects is his collaboration with the Sphere, a piece titled Machine Hallucinations: Sphere . The piece is divided into two chapters, one runs after the other for a duration of 4 months. The first chapter is made up of 1 million publicly available images of environments and surfaces photographed by satellites and spacecrafts including images from NASA. The second chapter features a total of 300 million publicly sourced images of flora and fauna from national parks worldwide. This project uses vast amounts of data ranging from images, videos, and other input all arranged into fluid and constantly evolving visuals. As an artist Anadol often draws on space, nature, and urban environments throughout his work, and being able to work with a canvas such as the sphere only accentuates those ideas more. By using public data as his medium, he rethinks how our environments and experiences are encoded and interpreted by machines. His collaboration with the sphere as well as the use of AI driven data highlights the profound evolution of modern art and technology.
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