Refik Anadol is an AI media artist and director who co-founded Refik Anadol Studio, embedding data and machine intelligence into large-scale architectural installations. Refik Anadol's Twitter Score is 260 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of August 2026, ranking #1,412 (top 0.5%) among 483,652 tracked accounts.
Refik Anadol co-founded Refik Anadol Studio and also co-founded Dataland, whose Large Nature Model is described as the world's first open-source AI model built solely on nature data. Refik Anadol works at the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts as a Lecturer. Refik Anadol was previously affiliated with Feral File, Sotheby's, and Christie's.
Refik Anadol has been active in the NFT space, with Refik Anadol Studio releasing over a dozen NFT collections extending its data-driven visual language into Web3. NFT sales have raised over $10 million for charitable organizations including St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, the Alzheimer's Foundation, and UNICEF. The Winds of Yawanawá collection raised $3 million to support Indigenous cultural and environmental preservation. Refik Anadol's account has 138,800 followers as of August 2026 and has published 15,679 posts, and has been mentioned by 512 accounts a total of 1,421 times.
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