Artificial intelligence is taking up more and more space in our everyday lives. When we connect with family and friends on our smartphones or seek information and entertainment on the Internet. When we're offered a bespoke treatment plan in hospital or listen to climate scientists expound on humanity's impact on nature. We are constantly surrounded by artificial intelligence, algorithms and machine learning.

In view of the fact that machines are becoming capable of learning, the artist Refik Anadol asks a crucial question: Can they also dream and fantasize? To investigate the issue, Refik Anadol enters into a creative collaboration with AI. He creates algorithms that he fills with millions of data points, which form the basis of his works, and these data transform the AI into the hallucinatory images we face.

NATURE DREAMS is Refik Anadol's first exhibition in Denmark. It invites you to experience three monumental data installations, all of which incorporate technology that exists in our everyday lives. Anadol looks favourably on these technologies and hopes that as we discover what AI is capable of, we can become more conscious of the perspectives for AI in our lives - for better and for worse.

Refik Anadol invites you on a dizzying journey of discovery into the brain of the creative computer, where nature, technology and architecture merge into machine-created dreamscapes.

Refik Anadol was born in1985 in Istanbul and lives and works in Los Angeles, USA.

REFIK ANADOL — NATURE DREAMS is the first part of ARKEN's three-year exhibition series NATURE FUTURE, where contemporary artists focus on humanity's relationship with art, nature and technology.