SEP 23 – 25, 2021
Visiting Partner Program
Experience a world where you own and control your data

About this program

How much data do you generate? Who gets value out of it? What is it used for? Do you own it? This immersive installation is part of Project Liberty, an initiative that seeks to transform how the internet works and who benefits from the digital economy. Done in collaboration with the artist Refik Anadol, the Project Liberty Experience invites viewers to examine their relationship to their data—who owns it, who profits, and what the world might look like if everyone owned and controlled their own data.

Free and open to the public, presented as part of Unfinished Live at The Shed

In accordance with the New York City mandate, visitors 12 years and older must be vaccinated against Covid-19, and visitors two years and older must wear a mask. Proof of vaccination may include CDC Vaccination Card (or photo), NYC COVID Safe app, New York State Excelsior Pass, NYC Vaccination Record, or an official immunization record from outside NYC or the US. Read more details at NYC.gov. Please note: All attendees of Unfinished Live and A Project Liberty Experience on September 23, 24, or 25 must be fully vaccinated. Entry to the Project Liberty Experience is through the McCourt doors on The Shed’s plaza. Read the details.

About the Artist

The artist Refik Anadol standing with arms crossed, wearing a black shirt and black-framed glasses, against a background with an abstract image recalling a forest or mountainous landscape
Photo: Efsun Erkilic.
Refik Anadol
Refik Anadol
Refik Anadol (b. 1985, Istanbul, Turkey) is a media artist, director, and pioneer in the aesthetics of data and machine intelligence. His body of work locates creativity at the intersection of humans and machines. In taking the data that flows around us as the primary material and the neural network of a computerized mind as a collaborator, Anadol paints with a thinking brush, offering us radical visualizations of our digitized memories and expanding the possibilities of architecture, narrative, and the body in motion. Anadol’s site-specific AI data sculptures, live audio/visual performances, and immersive installations take many forms, while encouraging us to rethink our engagement with the physical world, its temporal and spatial dimensions, and the creative potential of machines.

Details

  • Visitors enter the Project Liberty Experience through the McCourt doors on The Shed’s plaza. All other entry is through the 30th Street lobby.
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