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Culture | Lights, camera, (too much) action<br>Are you having fun yet? Dataland, an intense new AI art museum<br>Refik Anadol’s new project takes your senses by storm<br>Share
Photograph: Refik Anadol Studio
Jun 23rd 2026|LOS ANGELES|2 min read
VISITORS TO Dataland, a new museum for AI arts in Los Angeles, step onto an escalator and descend into a tempest. Rain blows sideways across mirrored walls. Next psychedelic pink amoebas and green squiggly lines gyrate across the walls and floor. It is hard to walk straight. Is this what it is like to be trapped inside a lava lamp? Soon guests are enveloped in the sounds of the rainforest, and fireflies flit across the screens. “It’s a living sculpture,” says Refik Anadol, a digital artist and the museum’s co-creator. He points to lines emanating from people’s feet. “That’s your data.”
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