NGV Triennial | Refik Anadol

Refik Anadol’s Quantum memories, 2020, draws upon a dataset of more than two hundred million nature-related images from the internet, which are processed using quantum computing software developed by the Google AI Quantum research team in combination with a supercomputer that has been programmed with machine-learning algorithms. The resulting real-time video can be considered both an alternate dimension of the natural world and a radical visualisation of our digitised memories of nature. Anadol’s arresting visuals and accompanying audio are composed in collaboration with a generative algorithm enabled by artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing - a new form of computing that exploits the unusual physics of the subatomic world - turning the visual data that flows around us every day into an artwork that represents our collective memory of nature. Through the work, the artist encourages us to imagine the potential of this experimental computer technology and the immense opportunities it presents for the future of art and design.
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[@JyotiDeka1989]

Being a physicist myself and that too with a friend who's extremely interested in contemporary art, I find this work extremely intriguing.

[@lvcheather]

So basically, you like it.

[@JyotiDeka1989]

@@lvcheather Yeah I do

[@jerrymic9393]

AI generates a data set from other images. This data is then inputted into VVVV (animation software) which generates the particle visuals. There's a leap between craft and the artistic statement as the visuals aren't reliant on the data you input... it could literally be any random set of data. This reduces the importance of his 'machine dreaming' type works to just pretty visuals. I guess that's the problem with technologically driven art. The absence of human indeterminism makes this work easy to replicate if you have the right tech. It's more impressive to me how well he manages to sell his works through the description of his concept. He manages to make it seem like this is a new step in art. But that's not the case when you look at how it operates. Still looks cool... Rafik's work thrives on it's audiences lack of understanding of the medium he works within with a nice side of rhetoric and a big budget

[@evanpark9649]

Hey Jerry. I'm a college student who is looking to get into the data art space. You seem pretty knowledgable on the subject. Could you point me toward any resources that could help me understand the space better?

[@mpalenque]

SHOTS FIREDDD!!

[@SusanneConyers]

I'm an Artist and I want to understand this process and DO this process on a fixed budget. Can you help? I am open to coĺlaboration too.

[@apexsynthesis1]

Yes! You nailed it on the head! If you know programming and 3d animations you know this isn’t that hard to do (with the right computing power) 3dsmax has a particle systems plugin that u can basically input anything and it will generate a particle system from it… It’s corny. But that’s most of the art world…he’s smart enough to go the “art gallery” route because people will buy into it……any legitimate field in computer graphics etc. would be like……”ok….this isn’t new” and not that difficult.

[@itsjacek]

You think he doesn't know that? The real fun is in the data he chooses to feed the AI with, and that premise he explains in the first minute or so. The visualization is just a gimmick.

[@saiKAnDREguLA]

Even if many-worlds is disproved, this art would still be many-epic✨

[@marekkaniewski8789]

brilliant dance of the mind

[@turker2023]

Mesmerizing

[@eyalkohen4894]

why is the video unlisted?

[@kaboomcycle0]

Screensavers have evolved so much since the 90s. 🤣

[@narottam12]

wow ! this is indeed an ambitious project, however, it is like teaching a goldfish simple arithmetics. no matter how good the technology is human perception of vision is limited by how the retina captures light and how the evolutionary brain interprets this information and finally how we perceive this new information. Even if a General AI compresses and codifies the information as per our visual perception there will be a lot that is "lost in translation", and can that reduced information still be call quantum information?

[@I_Am_TheUniverse]

☼ Shrooms ☼

[@Ambient_Scenes]

I always cringe a bit when I hear someone who hasn't taken the time to learn the mathematical framework of QM to start talking about quantum mechanics. The art shown here is cool though.

[@asafnisan]

This guy is a huge grifter. This is not art.

[@jerrymic9393]

I can confirm this also. AI generates a data set from other images. This data is then inputted into VVVV (animation software) which generates the particle visuals. There's a leap between craft and the artistic statement as the visuals aren't reliant on the data you input... it could literally be any random set of data. This reduces the importance of his 'machine dreaming' type works to just pretty visuals. I guess that's the problem with technologically driven art. The absence of human indeterminism makes this work easy to replicate if you have the right tech. It's more impressive to me how well he manages to sell his works through the description of his concept. He manages to make it seem like this is a new step in art. But that's not the case when you look at how it operates. Still looks cool... Rafik's work thrives on it's audiences lack of understanding of the medium he works within with a nice side of rhetoric

[@asafnisan]

@@jerrymic9393 great analysis

[@littlerollingwheels]

bullshit. just a particle system mate