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Commissioned to work with SALT Research collections, artist Refik Anadol employed machine learning algorithms to search and sort relations among 1,700,000 documents. Interactions of the multidimensional data found in the archives are, in turn, translated into an immersive media installation. Archive Dreaming, which is presented as part of The Uses of Art: Final Exhibition with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union, is user-driven; however, when idle, the installation "dreams" of unexpected correlations among documents. The resulting high-dimensional data and interactions are translated into an architectural immersive space.

Shortly after receiving the commission, Anadol was a resident artist for Google's Artists and Machine Intelligence Program where he closely collaborated with Mike Tyka and explored cutting-edge developments in the field of machine intelligence in an environment that brings together artists and engineers. Developed during this residency, his intervention Archive Dreaming transforms the gallery space on floor -1 at SALT Galata into an all-encompassing environment that intertwines history with the contemporary, and challenges immutable concepts of the archive, while destabilizing archive-related questions with machine learning algorithms.

In this project, a temporary immersive architectural space is created as a canvas with light and data applied as materials. This radical effort to deconstruct the framework of an illusory space will transgress the normal boundaries of the viewing experience of a library and the conventional flat cinema projection screen, into a three dimensional kinetic and architectonic space of an archive visualized with machine learning algorithms. By training a neural network with images of 1,700,000 documents at SALT Research the main idea is to create an immersive installation with architectural intelligence to reframe memory, history and culture in museum perception for 21st century through the lens of machine intelligence.

SALT is grateful to Google's Artists and Machine Intelligence program, and Doğuş Technology, ŠKODA, Volkswagen Doğuş Finansman for supporting Archive Dreaming.

Location : SALT Gatala, Istanbul, Turkey

Exhibition Dates : April 20 - June 11

6 Meters Wide Circular Architectural Installation

4 Channel Video, 8 Channel Audio

Custom Software, Media Server, Table for UI Interaction

For more information:

refikanadol.com/works/archive-dreaming/

Class Z1405 (G23) No.27 locomotive by Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

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Title: Class Z1405 (G23) No.27 locomotive

Dated: No date

Digital ID: 17420_a014_a014000455

Series: NRS 17420 State Rail Authority Archives Photographic Reference Print Collection

Rights: No known copyright restrictions www.records.nsw.gov.au/about-us/rights-and-permissions

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Archived photos by West Coast Refuse Trucks

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Archives Delft - Surch by oerendhard1

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Archives - Karoll - 473 by Karoll Le Bihan

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Archives Prinsenpark by oerendhard1

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archival self-shot by Dr. Abdullah Naser

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This is on old picture, it was already posted on Flickr two years ago. I was looking for my self-portraits from the archives, and I found its original RAW file. I felt an urge to edit it in a newer look. Posting a larger version, now you can see more details of the image. This photo was taken during my first weeks of using wireless flashes.

Tech:

Canon EOS 30D

Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L

Speedlite 580EX (on-camera).

one small white umbrella above the camera and the model.

- Archive - by Jacqueline ter Haar

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McSweeny Motors, south-west corner Danforth and Greenwood avenues by Toronto History

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Photographer: Howard McDonald

ca. 1947

City of Toronto Archives