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Sphere Entertainment Co. today announced that Refik Anadol, a world-renowned media artist, will be the first artist to use Sphere's fully programmable LED exterior in Las Vegas on September 1st as an immersive canvas. This is a piece of AI data created exclusively for Sphere called Machine Illusion: Sphere.

Refik Anadol is a fantastic media artist, director, and pioneer of machine intelligence aesthetics. He uses a lot of public data and machine learning algorithms to create fascinating, dynamic, and immersive art installations. Anadol is the founder of Refik Anadol Studio, an award-winning, technology-led creative design studio based in Los Angeles. Anadol Mapemou, Mo, Mo, Moid Artemo, Mo, May, Mays, Most, May, Mo, May, May, May, May, M.

Machine Hallucinations: An immersive digital experience, Spear features dynamic visualizations that use vast amounts of data to create abstract images of space and nature, and what Anadol calls "AI data sculptures" creates a collective, meditative, and multi-sensory experience that leads audiences to travel of light, movement, vivid pigments, shapes and patterns. This immersive experience allows viewers to imagine invisible reality through constructed data.

"I'm very honored to be the first artist to use the exterior of a sphere," Anadol said. "It's very exciting to receive architectural and engineering wonders like Canvas. This opportunity fits perfectly with our studio's long-term mission to incorporate living architectural works that constantly interact with the environment into its architecture."

"Refik Anadol's artistic approach makes him the ideal artist to showcase his amazing work for the first time, using the practical ability of Exosphere, an incomparable canvas for artists who want to explore their artistic expressions on the world stage and broaden the boundaries of what is possible," said Guy Barnett, senior vice president of Sphere Entertainment. "With the fascinating power of Exosphere, we'll show that we're going to show artistic change and our forever changing and commercial ways to our external brands

Mechanical hallucinations are continuous exploration of data aesthetics based on collective visual memories of space, nature, and urban environments. For this project, Anadol and his team used the theme dataset as a component of two different chapters:

Mechanical hallucinations: Space is a visual speculation of Refik Anadol Studio's historic attempt to explore the depth of space using publicly available photographs by satellites and spacecraft, including millions of raw images captured and recorded by the International Space Station and Hubble.

Mechanical hallucinations: Nature uses more than 300 million photos of plants and animals that create pigments, shapes, and patterns that we associate with nature. The second part of this chapter consists of wind in Las Vegas using a dataset of wind and velocity, precipitation and air pressure collected by Las Vegas' real-time API wind sensor.

Sphere is the next generation of entertainment media that brings wonders to the world and redefines the future of live entertainment. It's a place where top artists, creators, and technicians take storytelling to the next level and create a special experience that moves audiences to real and imaginary places. It hosts the unique Sphere Experience of the world's leading Hollywood directors, concerts and residences of the world's largest artists, and the best Marque event.

The entire exterior surface of Sphere, called Exosphere, is covered with a fully programmable LED panel of approximately 580,000 square feet, providing an effective display for artists, brands, and partners. The Exosphere consists of approximately 1.2 million LED pucks, spaced 8 inches apart. Each puck contains 48 individual LED diodes, each capable of displaying 256 million different colors.