The world is divided on the subject of artificial intelligence – with many fearings its impact while others are embracing the opportunities it may create.
And now, the world’s first Museum of AI Arts is set to launch in spring 2026 in Los Angeles.
Featuring artwork that has been created by artificial intelligence, the museum will be called Dataland and will open at the premises of The Grand LA, a development in the heart of downtown LA.
The project encompasses machine learning and large-scale digital installations, bringing them into a permanent public space.
This 25,000-square-foot ‘living museum’ will merge human imagination with machine creativity.
Dataland combines online access and learning platforms, and acts as a public destination for large-scale, nature-focused data sets.
One standout feature of the museum will be the Infinity Room, a floor-to-ceiling mirrored space using projectors and algorithms to create visual masterpieces.
According to a Dataland blog, this new feature creates ‘machine hallucinations’, the dreamlike, surreal realities an AI can generate from datasets.
Dataland is set to open this year in downtown Los Angeles
With data-led art, pieces created through artificial intelligence and artist residencies, it will be a thoroughly modern and new museum to visit
It adds: ‘Dataland incorporates AI-generated scents from our Large Nature Model, which was trained on half a million scent molecules, adding an olfactory dimension that connects data to our most primal sense of memory.’
The Large Nature Model contains data from 16 rainforests, meaning it has a bank of audio and visual data, Time Out reported.
The museum will also host artist residencies, in partnership with Google Arts & Culture, to support up-and-coming creators.
Over the course of six months, four selected artists will embark on projects that expand the creative horizons of human-machine collaborations.
Meanwhile, Qualia will be one of the museum’s most intriguing features, a physical data painting series.
This project will take real data to create pieces of art – a different one each day, with 365 pieces in total.
According to the museum, each piece is created on canvas at an immersive scale, translating data space into tangible, physical form.
A bespoke fragrance will also be engineered from the biometric and ecological data behind your specific painting.
The Infinity Room is one of the exhibition highlights, a totally immersive display
Dataland co-founder and artistic director Refik Anadol said: ‘Los Angeles is the perfect city to launch Dataland, a forward-thinking, revolutionary museum in support of the fields to which I have dedicated my career: art, science, technology and AI research.
‘LA has long been a city that looks to the future in art, music, cinema, architecture, and more, and it feels natural to open Dataland here.
‘To have a permanent space for us to develop a new paradigm of what a museum can be, by fusing human imagination with machine intelligence and the most advanced technologies available, is a realization of one of my biggest dreams.’
Co-founder Efsun Erkiliç added: ‘Dataland is a place where human creativity meets innovation, transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary.
‘Our Studio has presented exhibitions in incredible places all around the world, but having a space of our own gives us a blank canvas to work with, allowing us to truly push ourselves to dream without boundaries.
‘Dataland will be a place where audiences of all ages are transported to new worlds of discovery, inspiration, and wonder.
‘We are building a visionary museum that redefines learning and community, igniting the human spirit and fueling a journey into the beauty of our collective memories – the world of data.’
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