Dataland, New Museum of AI Arts, to Open in June, with L-Acoustics Co-founders Refik Anadol and Efsun Erkilic reveal further details of DATALAND, the Museum of AI Arts, opening to the public on June 20. In a statement, the museum says, "Representing a paradigm shift in the museum-going experience, Anadol and Erkilic unveil Data.Link, an intelligent system connecting art, architecture, and audience through advanced AI systems, real-time data assimilation, integrated technologies, and wearable devices. Made possible through collaborations with NVIDIA, Google Cloud, Founding Olfactory Partner L'Oreal Luxe, Epson, L-Acoustics, Empatica, LG Electronics, Gensler, ARUP, Scaleable, Valerie Confections, and Constellation Immersive, an affiliate of Creative Artists Agency (CAA), DATALAND emerges as the world's first omni-sensory museum." "For 5000 years, humans have been emotionally moved by artworks, but the relationship has always flowed in one direction," Anadol says. "While developing DATALAND we asked ourselves, 'Is it possible for artworks to feel us back?' We dreamed of a place where audience and artwork could merge, creating a feedback loop of collective emotion. Through collaborations with extraordinary innovators and technologies woven directly into the architecture itself, that dream has now become reality." Designed in collaboration with the architecture and design firm Gensler and engineered by Arup, with strategic support from Constellation Immersive, DATALAND was conceived as a new model for cultural institutions in the 21st century. It integrates advanced technologies into the building's walls, ceilings, and floors, allowing infrastructure to disappear into the architecture, while transforming the building itself into an active participant in the experience. Made possible by NVIDIA, DATALAND developed Connectome, a centralized high-performance computing system that serves as the neural center, giving every installation the capacity to process and respond in real time. Connectome orchestrates immense streams of information across every gallery, allowing each artwork to dream in direct dialogue with its environment. For DATALAND's inaugural exhibition, Machine Dreams: Rainforest, the system integrates live ecological data from rainforests around the world, the Large Nature Model AI system, and biosensing input from visitors' wearable devices, forming the computational foundation behind the experiences. Created by Refik Anadol Studio, the Large Nature Model (LNM) is the world's first open-access AI multi-modal based solely on nature data. To sustain the future of AI Arts, the LNM is hosted entirely on Google Cloud infrastructure in a low-CO2 compute zone in Oregon, operating on 87% carbon-free renewable energy. The LNM uses roughly one smartphone charge to reiterate the artwork for every visitor, reflecting DATALAND's commitment to building intelligent systems that expand the possibilities of art while minimizing their environmental footprint. DATALAND's partnership with Empatica, a specialist in digital health and wearable technology, allows visitors to connect directly to the building and the artwork. Empatica's EmbracePlus, an FDA-cleared wearable biosensing device, incorporates the collective visitors' emotional reactions through real-time measurements of heart rates, skin temperatures, and skin conductivity. To achieve this, Empatica created a custom version of its medical technology for consumer use, exclusively for DATALAND, with software and algorithms that have been adapted to enable data streaming in real time. Data.Link translates these anonymized physiological signals captured by EmbracePlus, together with live environmental data, into a language the Large Nature Model can interpret as emotion. The LNM responds in kind by reshaping what visitors experience; a machine dream that is not pre-programmed, but a living dialogue between art and audience. Three LG Electronics transparent touchscreen displays in the Latent Gallery invite visitors to create their own art in real-time by tapping into the deep knowledge of the Large Nature Model. In concert with DATALAND's mission to demystify AI Arts, visitors can explore the vast datasets collected for the LNM -- over 500 million images responsibly sourced through data partners including the Smithsonian, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Getty, iNaturalist, and London's Natural History Museum. Visitors can also utilize the AI system to paint with what Anadol calls a "thinking brush" with results shown in real-time on a large media wall. Through collaborations with Epson, LG Electronics, and custom LEDs throughout, the five galleries at DATALAND feature a combined total of 1.5 billion pixels. In the largest gallery, the Data Pavilion, eighty-four 4K projectors by Epson generate over eight million pixels and 20,000 lumens each, moving as one via Scalable's advanced algorithmic technology. Utilizing cameras to capture projected images, and software that automatically aligns, blends, and color-matches every pixel, seams disappear, and curved surfaces look flawless. In the much-anticipated Infinity Room, visitors step inside a three-dimensional LED cube engineered with panels completely covering all four walls, ceiling, and floor. Across five galleries, in total, DATALAND comprises 1,577 custom 10K panels totaling roughly 3,500 square feet of LEDs with 28 LG displays interspersed throughout the five galleries. Sound is elemental, immediate, and inseparable from how we experience the world around us. DATALAND's 250-speaker audio ecosystem is driven by L-ISA immersive sound from L-Acoustics. L-ISA technology delivers a living soundtrack that evolves in real time, woven from original music by composer and sound designer Kerim Karaoglu, the acoustic ecology of the rainforest, and the sacred healing songs of the Yawanawa. L-Acoustics L-SMART technology continuously monitors and optimizes power consumption to an average of 30% greater efficiency, with zero compromise to the sound. Suspending audio dynamically across a three-dimensional canvas -- in front of, above, and surrounding the visitor -- DATALAND achieves a spatial resolution with no precedent in any permanent museum anywhere in the world. Machine Dreams: Rainforest will be on view from June 20 to January 31. 
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