
Although the staff hands out cushions for visitors to sit on the floor, we found a place on a bench, where we were mesmerized by the exploding colors, movement, and accompanying soundtrack. The result feels like you are deep inside a computer’s initially disorienting but very beautiful and hallucinatory dream about the architectural creation of New York City. The installation, by Turkish-born media artist and director Refik Anadol, uses Barco-powered, 16K resolution, 150 megapixel, laser projection technology to display images created from machine learning algorithms on a dataset of over 300 million images of New York City architecture. If you are human, leave this field blank.Machine Hallucination is a stunning large-scale immersive digital installation in a former boiler room at Chelsea Market in Manhattan. What would you like us to know about your group? Are you locals or visitors? Remnants of Gritty Old Times Square Tour Which private tour are you interested in? In taking the data that flows around us as his primary material and the neural network of a computerized mind as his collaborator, Anadol paints with a thinking brush, offering us radical visualizations of our digitized memories and expanding the possibilities of architecture, narrative and the body in motion. His body of work positions creativity at the intersection of humans and machines. Refik Anadol (b.1985, Istanbul, Turkey) is a media artist, director, and pioneer in the aesthetics of machine intelligence. Taking over the never-previously-occupied boiler room space beneath the iconic Chelsea Market, ARTECHOUSE NYC is one of the most unique art destinations and things to do in New York City. Utilizing the largest seamless megapixel count projections of any cultural institution and integrating Hyperreal Sound technology, ARTECHOUSE NYC offers visitors and artists alike the most technologically advanced art platform in the world. Founded in 2015, ARTECHOUSE has become the premier destination, both online and offline, for genre-pushing, technology-driven art.

From immersive art spaces to an extended reality (XR) mobile app, ARTECHOUSE is where curiosity-seekers of all ages go to experience creative innovation without limits. In partnership with Nifty Gateway, this special viewing of Machine Hallucination: NYC, which attracted over 100,000 visitors in its first showing, will also feature an exclusive location drop of exhibition-based experiential NFT art, a collection composed of 1,000 unique NFTs from Anadol available to visitors on-site only at ARTECHOUSE’s New York location.ĪRTECHOUSE is the nation’s first innovative art destination dedicated to the intersection of art, science and technology. Exploring New York through the mind of a machine, Machine Hallucination: NYC aims to uncover the ever-changing shape of the city, evoking our collective memory and the ways that new forms of visual representation can alter our perception of this iconic destination. This completely immersive exhibition is of New York, by New York and for New York - a fitting tribute to one of the world’s greatest cities and architectural marvels.

This groundbreaking immersive exhibition, in collaboration with award-winning media artist and pioneer in the aesthetics of machine intelligence, Refik Anadol, returns to ARTECHOUSE NYC, now with an opportunity to collect immersive experiential NFTs.Ĭommissioned by ARTECHOUSE and created by Refik Anadol, Machine Hallucination: NYC is a time and space exploration into New York City’s past and potential future.
