LOS ANGELES — Refik Anadol has opened Dataland, a 25,000-square-foot space in downtown Los Angeles that he calls the first museum of A.I. art. The museum's inaugural exhibition, "Machine Dreams: Rainforest," is powered by Anadol's Large Nature Model.

Anadol trained the Large Nature Model on half a billion images and 100,000 hours of audio. The model uses scientific data gathered by the Smithsonian Institution and London's Natural History Museum. Upon arrival, visitors receive diffusers and biometric wristbands. Twelve scents were formulated by the Large Nature Model with help from L'Oréal Luxe. Dataland's "Connectome" system processes visitor data, including heartbeats, galvanic response, and body temperature, using chips provided by Nvidia. The data is automatically deleted.

"We are entering the dream of the machine," Anadol said. In 2022, Anadol's generative-A.I. artwork "Unsupervised: Machine Hallucinations" entered the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) collection. Anadol trained an A.I. on more than two hundred years' worth of art from MOMA's collection to create the work. MOMA earned a portion of the proceeds from Anadol's N.F.T. sales. Anadol's art has been displayed at the Sphere in Las Vegas, on the stage of the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, and at the United Nations in New York. He also has permanent installations at Boston's Logan Airport and JPMorgan Chase's headquarters in midtown Manhattan.

Anadol, who is 40 years old, views vast data sets as the "new language of humanity." His studio in Los Angeles's Frogtown neighborhood employs approximately 20 data scientists, engineers, and architects. Anadol studied photography and design at Bilgi University in Istanbul and earned a second M.F.A. at U.C.L.A., where Casey Reas was one of his teachers. In 2016, Anadol was a fellow at Google's Artists and Machine Intelligence program, where he worked with Mike Tyka, who helped develop DeepDream. DeepDream used neural networks trained on millions of images to generate psychedelic patterns. A Microsoft award covered some of Anadol's early research expenses.

In 2018, Anadol projected images onto the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, using terabytes of recordings, program notes, and archival documents from the L.A. Philharmonic. MOMA displayed Anadol's work on a 24-foot-tall high-definition LED screen in the Agnes Gund Garden Lobby. Anadol and Efsun Erkılıç have visited the Yawanawá tribe in western Brazil and have raised millions of dollars for the tribe through N.F.T. sales.