“I think we are literally in a renaissance,” says the artist Refik Anadol, in a characteristically optimistic comment, when asked how he sees this moment in art history, with artificial intelligence ascendant yet controversial as a medium. “We just don’t have a name for it yet.”

Anadol, known for technological installations that probe the relationship between humans and machines, has reason to be happy. On June 20, Dataland, the cutting-edge downtown Los Angeles gallery he cofounded with studio partner Efsun Erkılıç, opened its doors to an eager public. Billed as the first “museum of AI arts” in the world, it welcomed more than 10,000 visitors to the opening exhibit in the first two weeks, Anadol tells WIRED.

The set piece is his most ambitious to date, an immersive architectural vision titled