The world’s first Museum of AI Arts and digital ecosystem dedicated to data visualization and AI-based creativity, Dataland is launching in 2025 at The Grand LA, the Frank Gehry-designed development in Downtown Los Angeles.

Dataland won’t be like any other museun and has been described as a “living museum” made of pixels and voxels, which are mathematical representations of 3D imagery. Its pièce de résistance is its very own AI model, called the Large Nature Model. Designed by Turkish born AI art pioneer, Refik Anadol in his California studio, the model uses data sourced from partners including the Smithsonian (9 million public specimen records, 6.3 million public images, 148 million objects in its collection); London’s Natural History Museum (90 million specimens in its collection, 4 million public images); the Cornell Lab of Ornithology (54 million images, 2 million sound records). AI will create artworks using this data and more — up to a half-billion images of nature, Anadol said.

Anadol was quick to add that he is making “ethical AI” the linchpin of his practice. He secured permission for every bit of sourced material (a step not always followed in AI-model training), and all of the studio’s AI research was performed on Google servers in Oregon that use only renewable energy. It’s slow, Anadol says, but it does the job without fossil fuels. A future version of the Dataland website will include access to the Large Nature Model for educational and research purposes, and a widget will track in real time how much energy is being used.

A piece of Anadol’s research into the natural world using Dataland’s AI model, called “Large Nature Model: Coral,” is being shown at the United Nations’ Summit of the Future, which is exploring sustainable development goals, climate action and new and emerging technologies.

“This is a little AI model that we are putting underwater to reconstruct corals,” Anadol said, adding that this work can ultimately lead to the revitalization of coral ecosystems. He is sharing his research with teams at the United Nations.

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