FIBER Festival

Turning data of invisible wind patterns in Boston into a poetic data painting, or translating Twitter activitity in San Francisco into a parametric data sculpture, media artist Refik Anadol creates groundbreaking site-specific art works that blend architecture, media art and complex data analysis.

How do smart phones and urban screens change our experience and conceptualizations of space, and how can architecture embrace this? Embedding media arts into architecture, the work of Refik Anadol makes the audience rethink invisible data streams and the experience of architectural space.

Anadol is a media artist and director from Istanbul, currently based in Los Angeles. He is co-founder and creative director of Antilop. He received numerous awards including Microsoft Research’s Best Vision Award and the UCLA Art+Architecture Moss Award. Places that he has made site-specific audiovisual works for include the Walt Disney Concert Hall (USA), Hammer Museum (USA), International Digital Arts Biennial Montreal (Canada), Ars Electronica Festival (Austria), l’Usine | Genève (Switzerland) and Arc De Triomf (Spain).