{"id":168271,"date":"2023-10-19T11:58:10","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T11:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culture.org\/?p=168271"},"modified":"2023-10-30T04:52:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T04:52:16","slug":"art-news-moma-adds-viral-digital-art-unsupervised-by-refik-anadol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culture.org\/art-and-culture\/art-events\/art-news-moma-adds-viral-digital-art-unsupervised-by-refik-anadol\/","title":{"rendered":"Art News: MoMA adds Viral Digital Art &#8220;Unsupervised&#8221; by Refik Anadol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MoMA<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> adds cutting-edge digital art by Refik Anadol and Ian Cheng. Discover how &#8216;Unsupervised&#8217; and &#8216;3FACE&#8217; are shaping conversations in the art world.<\/span><\/p>\n           <!--  <script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n                jQuery(document).ready(function() {\r\n                    jQuery(\".key-accordion-item .key-menu\").on(\"click\", function() {\r\n                        if (jQuery(this).parent().hasClass(\"active\")) {\r\n                            jQuery(this).next().slideUp();\r\n                            jQuery(this).parent().removeClass(\"active\");\r\n                        } else {\r\n                            jQuery(\".key-content\").slideUp();\r\n                            jQuery(\".key-accordion-item\").removeClass(\"active\");\r\n                            jQuery(this).parent().addClass(\"active\");\r\n                            jQuery(this).next().slideDown();\r\n                        }\r\n                    });\r\n                })\r\n            <\/script> -->\r\n\r\n\r\n            <!-- start html -->\r\n\r\n            <div class=\"news-key-takeaway-wapper\">\r\n                                <span style=\"background-color:#4db2ee;\">Key Takeaways<\/span>\r\n                <ul class=\"news-key-nbox\" style=\"border-color:#4db2ee;background-color:rgba(77, 178, 238, 0.1);\">\r\n                                                        <li>MoMA now owns Refik Anadol's digital art piece 'Unsupervised' and Ian Cheng\u2019s '3FACE.'<\/li>\r\n                                                                    <li>Anadol's 'Unsupervised' uses machine learning to reimagine MoMA's art collection.<\/li>\r\n                                                                    <li>Cheng's '3FACE' analyzes its owner\u2019s blockchain wallet to make a \"visual portrait.\"<\/li>\r\n                                                <\/ul>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n            \n<h2><b>MoMA&#8217;s New Catch: Refik Anadol&#8217;s Digital Art Sensation &#8216;Unsupervised&#8217;<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Big news just dropped\u2014The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/culture.org\/art-and-culture\/art-events\/new-york-art-exhibitions-autumn-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">New York<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> has added some fresh and digital spice to its collection. They&#8217;ve nabbed not just one but two digital artworks, and one of them is by none other than Refik Anadol.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>A Game Changer Called &#8216;Unsupervised&#8217;<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, what&#8217;s the deal with Anadol&#8217;s artwork named &#8220;Unsupervised&#8221;? It\u2019s a cool, computer-made piece that scans MoMA&#8217;s own art collection to create something entirely new. It&#8217;s like the artwork is having a conversation with the museum&#8217;s other pieces. The piece first showed up last year and was so popular, they had to extend its stay until October 29.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The crowd&#8217;s loving it, but not everyone&#8217;s a fan. Some critics, like Jerry Saltz from New York, think it&#8217;s nothing more than a fancy lava lamp. However, Lloyd Wise from Artforum thinks it\u2019s doing something more, like shaking up what we think modern art should be.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>The Buzz Around Digital Art and NFTs<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Refik Anadol&#8217;s piece even comes with its own NFT (Non-Fungible Token).Tech guy Ryan Zurrer donated it to MoMA, and he&#8217;s excited about the museum stepping into the digital age. Zurrer believes that <a href=\"https:\/\/culture.org\/gaming\/gaming-goes-glam-momas-bold-move-to-acknowledge-video-games-as-art\/\">MoMA<\/a> is catching the &#8220;cultural wave&#8221; by featuring works that dig into hot topics like <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">artificial intelligence<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Ian Cheng\u2019s &#8216;3FACE&#8217;: A New Kind of Portrait<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ian Cheng\u2019s &#8216;3FACE&#8217; is also making waves. This piece is all about diving into your <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/culture.org\/gambling\/evolving-role-of-blockchain-in-modern-day-online-casinos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">blockchain<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> wallet and painting a picture of who you are. Sounds cool, right? It\u2019s like having a mirror that shows not just your face, but your digital soul. Cheng is a New York artist who\u2019s been playing around with what he calls &#8220;live simulations&#8221; for years.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>The Artists Behind the Magic<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both Refik Anadol and Ian Cheng are no rookies. Refik Anadol, originally from Turkey, is a data wizard. He\u2019s turned heads by using data to show the impact of climate change, among other things. Ian Cheng, based in New York, has been getting attention for his digital works that explore evolution and artificial intelligence.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":10028,"featured_media":168369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[852],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}