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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 24, 2026 visibility 4 link 4 artists, 1 gallery

The World's First Museum of A.I. Art Will Open in Los Angeles as the Art World Ponders Questions of Ethics and Sustainability

Dataland, billed as the world's first museum dedicated to A.I.-generated art, will open on June 20 in downtown Los Angeles. Founded by digital artists Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkiliç, the 35,000-square-foot museum is located in the Grand LA complex designed by Frank Gehry. Its inaugural exhibition, "Machine Dreams: Rainforest," features immersive, multisensory installations powered by an open-access A.I. model called the Large Nature Model, trained on millions of nature images. The exhibition includes soundscapes incorporating oral histories of the Yawanawá people and the last recorded call of the extinct Kaua‘i ‘ō‘ō bird.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 23, 2026 source 2 sources visibility 1 link 3 artists, 1 gallery

Refik Anadol’s Dataland Museum Sets an Opening Date

Refik Anadol's Dataland, billed as the world's first A.I. art museum, will open on June 20 in Los Angeles after more than two and a half years of planning. Founded by Anadol and his partner Efsun Erkiliç, the museum is housed inside the Frank Gehry-designed Grand L.A. complex and features five galleries. Its debut exhibition, "Machine Dreams: Rainforest," uses ecological data processed through Anadol's Large Nature Model to create digital sculptures simulating possible rainforests. The museum, designed by Gensler, dedicates nearly a third of its 35,000 square feet to operational hardware and runs on 87 percent carbon-free energy.

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Dataland, the world’s first museum of AI arts, sets opening date and first exhibition

Dataland, the world's first museum dedicated to AI arts, will open on June 20 in downtown Los Angeles. Co-founded by new media artists Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkılıç, the 35,000-square-foot museum anchors the $1-billion Frank Gehry-designed Grand LA complex. Its inaugural exhibition, "Machine Dreams: Rainforest," created by Refik Anadol Studio, uses vast data sets from partners including the Smithsonian and London's Natural History Museum to immerse visitors in a machine-generated sensory experience of the Amazon rainforest. The museum features five immersive galleries, a 30-foot ceiling, and is powered by an open-access AI model called the Large Nature Model, which runs on Google Cloud servers using 87% carbon-free energy.

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museum exhibitions schedule Apr 23, 2026 visibility 2 link 4 artists, 1 gallery

refik anadol's DATALAND opens june 2026 in los angeles as the first museum of AI arts

Refik Anadol Studio will open DATALAND, the world's first Museum of AI Arts, on June 20, 2026, at The Grand LA in downtown Los Angeles. The 2,320-square-meter institution will feature five galleries, including the Infinity Room, and launch with the inaugural exhibition "Machine Dreams: Rainforest," running through January 31, 2027. The museum integrates AI systems into its architecture, powered by the studio's Large Nature Model trained on ecological data from the Smithsonian and Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

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