Dataland, the world's first museum of AI arts, has announced an opening date of 20 June in downtown Los Angeles.
Located at Frank Gehry's The Grand LA, a $1 billion mixed-use development, Dataland's flagship LA location features five galleries across 25,000 square feet of public space. An additional 10,000 square feet of space houses the museum’s advanced technologies.
Dataland co-founder Refik Anadol said in a statement: "After a journey of many years, we are so excited to finally share Dataland with the public.
"LA is the center of creativity. It is a city that defines the future of art, music, cinema, architecture, and more, and we can’t wait to open Dataland's flagship location in our adopted home."
Co-founder Efsun Erkılıç added: "Bringing Dataland to life in Los Angeles is incredibly meaningful.
"With Dataland, we are opening a space that brings together artists, scientists, and pioneers, and we invite the public to experience storytelling in a completely new way."
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As well as setting an opening date, Dataland has revealed details of its inaugural exhibition; Machine Dreams: Rainforest, created by Refik Anadol Studio.
Inspired by Anadol and Erkılıç's trip to the Amazon rainforest, Machine Dreams: Rainforest unfolds across Dataland's five galleries "as a narrative of a deepening relationship between machine intelligence and the natural world", according to a press release.
Via advanced AI systems processing vast ecological datasets and real-time biofeedback from guests, the works generate an "emergent, living reality, a machine’s dream shaped by continuous streams of environmental and biological data".
Anadol’s experiences in the rainforest also prompted the creation of Refik Anadol Studio’s Large Nature Model (LNM), the AI model at the centre of Machine Dreams: Rainforest.
Machine Dreams: Rainforest at Dataland
The Large Nature Model is the world’s first open-source AI model based solely on nature data, and incorporates data collected first-hand from 16 rainforest environments around the world.
The AI model is hosted entirely on a specialised Google Cloud server in a low-CO2 compute zone in Oregon, running on 87 percent carbon-free, renewable energy. The energy required to generate a visit is roughly equal to charging one smartphone.
Machine Dreams: Rainforest will be on view from 20 June through 31 January 2027.
Images courtesy of Dataland
