A new venue called Dataland, billed as the world's first museum dedicated to AI art, opened in downtown Los Angeles in June 2026, founded by Turkish-American artist Refik Anadol and his partner Efsun Erkılıç. The museum features immersive rooms combining synchronised sound, light and visual displays that respond to visitors' biometric data via wristbands, reflecting Anadol's decade-long practice of turning large datasets into three-dimensional installations. Anadol, named among Time magazine's hundred most influential figures in AI for 2025, describes his approach as collaborative, saying "machines are collaborators" rather than replacements for human creativity.

The inaugural exhibition, "Machine Dreams: Rainforest," runs until January 2027 and includes a hummingbird's-eye flight through vibrant landscapes, interactive paintings that respond to visitors' biometric signals, and a soundscape blending Amazon rainforest recordings with Mahler's Symphony No. 3; standard tickets start at $49. Anadol has also produced a Messi installation reconstructing the footballer's memory of a career-defining 2009 goal and a Smithsonian project projecting images onto the Castle building's facade. However, critics such as New York magazine's Jerry Saltz have dismissed the work as superficial, and others have questioned his use of free public archives from institutions like the Smithsonian and Oxford University for commercially profitable ventures, alongside close ties to tech firms such as Google and Nvidia.