Yet this fetishization of AI proves misguided in the lengthy run. Unsupervised’s abstract aesthetic ends up divorcing this know-how from the intelligible domain of human affairs— obscuring the complex and real methods in which these machines are shaped by, and in turn form, the world around us. Anadol performs exactly into this mixture of surprise and concern by articulating a dramatic imaginative and prescient of a machine intelligence that exceeds our comprehension. Its grandiose scale and abstracted visible type positions this intelligence as nothing short of a technological sublime looming over us, a deistic mind defying our understanding. There is, as Ben Davis wrote in a January review for Artnet, a “generalized awe at the machine’s superhuman capacity of visual analysis” that drives the piece, a imaginative and prescient of AI as an unfathomable transcendent Other.

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