October 27, 2025
The GIST LA's trippy museum of AI arts—and its new opening plan 
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AI is driving the stock market to record highs, dominating countless debates about the value of human labor, and radically rewiring the way schools approach education. It's also causing a stir in the art world, with media artist Refik Anadol poised to open Dataland, the world's first museum of AI arts, inside the Frank Gehry-designed Grand L.A. complex in downtown Los Angeles next spring.
The 25,000-square-foot museum was originally scheduled to open this year, but Anadol announced last week that the opening has been pushed back to spring 2026. Anadol also unveiled a sneak peek at the Infinity Room, one of the museum's five discrete galleries.
The immersive room features Anadol's distinct swirling colors and images and will be infused with AI-generated scents, creating a multisensory experience powered by its very own AI model, called the Large Nature Model.
The Infinity Room design dates back to 2014 when Anadol created his first immersive data sculpture at UCLA. He described it as an exploration into the future of the Light and Space movement. It was essentially a 12-by-12-foot cube, with mirrored walls, ceiling and floors. Projectors emitted pulses of black-and-white imagery that used data as a pigment. To date, the Infinity Room has toured 35 cities and been viewed by more than 10 million people.
"The work emerged from my exploration of the idea that information can become a narrative material capable of transforming architectural space into a living canvas. The question driving me was simple but profound: What happens if there is no corner, no floor, no ceiling, no gravity?" Anadol wrote about his concept for the Infinity Room in a blog post on his website.
"At DATALAND, Infinity Room enters a new era. This iteration embodies the technical and conceptual leaps our studio has made over the past decade. Where the original used generative algorithms, this new incarnation incorporates our decade-long research into what I call 'machine hallucinations'—the dreamlike, surreal realities an AI can generate from vast datasets."
In an interview last year, Anadol said "ethical AI" is essential to his practice. Unlike most large AI models, Anadol secured permission to use all of his sourced material, and said all of the studio's AI research was performed on Google servers in Oregon that use only renewable energy.
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