Digital artist Refik Anadol’s next canvas? The world’s largest LED screen.
Anadol will take over the exterior of the soon-to-debut Sphere in Las Vegas, a glowing, 366-foot-tall, globe-shaped events venue that will open Sept. 29 with a series of U2 concerts. The exterior of the futuristic-looking building, or the “Exosphere,” as it’s being referred to, is a 580,000-square-foot programmable LED screen that will be used as a 360-degree canvas by rotating artists.
Anadol’s piece, an artificial intelligence data sculpture called “Machine Hallucinations: Sphere,” will inaugurate the Exosphere art program. It goes live on Sept. 1 and will run for four months.
Read more at the Los Angeles Times.