Lars Muller Publishers Refik Anadol Studio: The Living Archive

Over the past decade, Refik Anadol Studio has redefined the possibilities of media art at the intersection of aesthetics, data and machine intelligence. Since its founding in 2014, the studio has pioneered the use of custom artificial intelligence models trained on vast datasets drawn from nature, urban life and cultural memory to create generative realities that merge art, architecture, science and technology. From weather patterns and ocean currents to city archives, museum collections and brain scans, the studio transforms raw data into monumental visual experiences that expand the vocabulary of contemporary art. This book offers the first comprehensive chronicle of this trajectory, tracing more than ten years of innovation in data sculpture, AI-driven visualization and large-scale immersive installations. The publication situates the studio’s projects within a wider cultural and technological history and features essays by leading figures in architecture, media art and artificial intelligence, as well as reflections from researchers and museum collaborators closely involved in the realization of these projects. Conceived as both a record and a projection, the book captures the evolution of a practice that is both technologically speculative and deeply humanistic.