Refik Anadol's AI 'Renaissance Dreams' opens daily for Milan Design Week

Refik Anadol's permanent AI installation 'Renaissance Dreams' at MEET Digital Cultural Center in Milan opens daily during Milan Design Week, instead of its usual Wednesday-only access. The work, donated by Anadol in 2020, uses a dataset of Italian Renaissance visual and textual works from 1300-1600 processed by AI to generate ever-changing immersive imagery, sound, and text. Anadol describes the experience as 'nostalgic wonder,' aiming to bypass analytical thought. Sound and image are generated simultaneously from the same algorithmic processes by Kerim Karaoglu. Maria Grazia Mattei, president of MEET, notes the work was created in 2019 as Anadol's first Italian piece and was always intended as permanent, not temporary. The article includes an interview with Anadol and Mattei.