HomeMy WebLinkAbout(0038) Anadol's Proposal.pdfRefik Anadol
Pioneer Tower Iconic Public Art Project
Artist's Proposal Summary and Bio
May 2020
PROPOSAL SUMMARY
As Will Rogers fondly quipped and the city has embraced, Fort Worth is known as the place where "the west
begins". Drawing further inspiration from poet Arthur Chapman, where the west begins is also a place where "the
bonds of home are a wee bit tighter". Honoring the cultural significance and legacy of Fort Worth, this piece aims
to celebrate the people, places, histories, and dreams of the city that have been woven together over the years.
In order to create a piece that tells this story, archival data is gathered from key libraries and museums, as well as
city institutions and the community. Acknowledging that place and memory are directly linked, it is important to
also take into careful consideration the physical environment and key buildings which physicalize the sentiment of
home for many.
Upon collecting this data, we can explore Fort Worth through the mind a of a machine, deploying machine learning
algorithms trained on these data sets to visualize a consciousness of Fort Worth previously unseen. By projecting a
final audio/visual performance onto the fagade of Pioneer Tower, this project is a collective performance and
journey into the imagination, memories and dreams of this unique and indeed pioneering town.
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Refik Anadol is a media artist, director, and pioneer in the aesthetics of machine
intelligence. His body of work locates creativity at the intersection of humans and
machines. In taking the data that flows around us as his primary material and the neural
network of a computerized mind as his collaborator, Anadol paints with a thinking brush,
offering us radical visualizations of our digitized memories and expanding the possibilities
of architecture, narrative, and the body in motion. Anadol's site -specific parametric data
sculptures, live audio/visual performances, and immersive installations take many forms,
while offering a dramatic rethinking of the physical world, our relationship to time and
space, and the creative potential of machines.
Refik Anadol Studio employs a unique team of prominent computer scientists, software
developers, architects, engineers, and designers to realize Anadol's vision. A pioneer in his
field, Anadol has partnered with teams at Microsoft, Google (Artist and Machine
Intelligence), Nvidia, JPL/NASA, Intel, IBM, Siemens and Epson, to apply the latest, cutting -
edge science and technologies to his work.
Refik Anadol is the recipient of a number of awards and prizes including the Lorenzo it
Magnifico Lifetime Achievement Award for New Media Art, Microsoft Research's Best
Vision Award, German Design Award, UCLA Art+Architecture Moss Award, University of
California Institute for Research in the Arts Award, SEGD Global Design Awards, and
Google's Art and Machine Intelligence Artist Residency Award.