NEW YORK — As a child, Refik Anadol would joyously envisage alternate spatial realities: a version of his bedroom without a ceiling, another version without a floor. So it’s fitting that the Istanbul-born, Los Angeles–based data artist spends his grown-up days ideating at the vanguard of new media where architecture, art, and technology converge. Anadol’s latest project, entitled Machine Hallucination, is an AI-generated vision of New York City. The immersive installation serves as the first Manhattan-based exhibition organized by digital art space ARTECHOUSE, which has recently opened its new outpost below Chelsea Market, which is located in and named for the popular neighborhood.

ARTECHOUSE was cofounded by Tatiana Pastukhova and Sandro Kereselidze in 2015 as a platform for the development and presentation of new media projects like Machine Hallucination. Noting the lack of resources available to artists experimenting with sophisticated technologies in their work, the husband-and-wife team established ARTECHOUSE to be what Pastukhova calls “a home where new media artists are free to create and show their work without limitations.”…

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