Machine Hallucination

Directed by Refik Anadol

Machine Hallucination was a buzzing, immersive audiovisual piece, on view at Artechouse from 2019 until 2020.

Machine Hallucination whirs and throbs for thirty minutes as a machine processes images and then responds to them. There are moments when glimmers of New York are completely clear: you feel as if you’re moving over the city’s grid at a great height, or glimpse images of buildings right before they start to morph beyond recognition. Other times, you are looking at the data architecture, at graphic plottings, or metadata tags of the original photos.