Refik Anadol

08/06/20 • 47 min

“[In the future] I believe that the buildings will dream, the buildings will remember.”

In the latest episode of Endless Vital Activity, David Johnston speaks with Refik Anadol, media artist, director and visiting researcher at UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts.

Johnston and Anadol discuss the intersection between the spiritual, virtual and physical realms, data as an art form and how Refik challenges the conventions of art with his public space data sculptures.

“[In the future] I believe that the buildings will dream, the buildings will remember.”

In the latest episode of Endless Vital Activity, David Johnston speaks with Refik Anadol, media artist, director and visiting researcher at UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts.

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Endless Vital Activity - Refik Anadol

Transcript

David [00:00:11] Welcome back to Endless Vital Activity, conversations to inspire radical action. I'm David Johnston, founder of Accept & Proceed. At Accept & Proceed we believe the cross pollination of minds and ideas is vital and we can't find solutions in isolation. So, connection and collaboration are critical. Throughout this series, we will engage in wide ranging conversations with radical thinkers, artists, scientists and activists about the problems we have been given t