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Machine Hallucinations: Coral Dreams - Stewarded Collection on Feral File

Released by Aorist on 29 November 2021. One work, one edition. Stewarded by Feral File: nobody at Feral File curated it, and the pages make no claim of authorship.

Machine Hallucinations: Coral Dreams by Refik Anadol

Refik Anadol

Machine Hallucinations: Coral Dreams

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2021, MP4 file

About Aorist

Aorist was a digital art platform that released work by Refik Anadol, Andrés Reisinger, Quayola, Joanie Lemercier, Nancy Baker Cahill, Auriea Harvey and others on the Algorand blockchain in 2021 and 2022, then stopped operating. In 2024 Feral File built a bridge from Algorand to Ethereum for Aorist's collectors, migrated the works, and took custody of the collection. The works are shown here as they were released: one entry per Aorist release, with its artist, its mint date and its Ethereum contract.

What a stewarded collection is

A stewarded collection is work Feral File stewards for an initiative that no longer operates. It is not a Feral File exhibition: nobody at Feral File curated it, and the pages make no claim of authorship. The record stays readable, the works stay viewable, and the collectors keep a place where their holdings can be seen. Each release is listed as it was released, and each work carries the Ethereum contract the collection was migrated to and the artist's own description where the token metadata preserved one.

The record

The inventory comes from Aorist's own database, recovered by Feral File: 25 releases, 2,342 editions and 77 distinct works across 15 artists. The original media host is gone. The files shown here are the copies pinned to IPFS during the 2024 migration and served from Feral File's gateway; works whose files are still being restored are listed without a player.

Jonas Lund's Most Valuable Painting, released through Aorist in 2022, was completed as a Feral File exhibition in 2026 and has its own pages.

70 works by 13 artists across 22 releases, 1,573 editions, listed as stewarded collections.

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Refik Anadol

LocationLos Angeles

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Refik Anadol (b. 1985, Istanbul, Turkey) is a media artist and pioneer in the aesthetics of machine intelligence, and the director of Refik Anadol Studio in Los Angeles. Since 2008, his works have explored the space among digital and physical entities by creating a symbiotic relationship between architecture, science, technology, and media arts. As an artist and a spatial thinker, he addresses the challenges, and the possibilities, that ubiquitous computing has imposed on humanity, and what it means to be a human in the age of AI. Anadol’s site-specific audio/visual performances have been featured at other iconic landmarks, museums, and festivals worldwide, such as Venice Architecture Biennale, Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Centre Pompidou, Florence Biennale, Hammer Museum, Art Basel, Dongdaemun Design Plaza, The Portland Building, Daejeon Museum of Art, Artechouse, International Digital Arts Biennial Montreal, Ars Electronica Festival, Arc De Triomf, Zollverein | SANAA’s School of Design Building, santralistanbul Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul Design Biennial, and Sydney City Biennale among many others. Anadol has partnered, and continues to work with, teams at Google, Nvidia, Microsoft, NASA JPL, Intel, IBM, Siemens, Epson, MIT, UCLA, Caltech, Harvard, Stanford University, and UCSF to apply the latest cutting-edge science, research, and technologies to his work.
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Machine Hallucinations: Coral Dreams smart contract (Ethereum, migrated from Algorand):

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