Welcome to Artechouse - New York. Step into "Machine Hallucination," its inaugural interactive art-tech exhibit.
Located in a former boiler room in New York City's Chelsea Market, Artechouse has 6,000 square feet of exhibition space.
Refik Anadol is the media artist behind "Machine Hallucination." Anadol was an artist in residence at Google through its Artists + Machine Intelligence program.
"Machine Hallucination" takes visitors into the mind of a machine: viewers stand in a vast room with moving projections on three walls and the floor.
"This work is a part of a series of other works (where) I am exploring the idea of embedding media arts into architecture by using machine intelligence," Anadol told Business Insider.
"This means hopefully spaces will have this cognitive capacity of remembering or dreaming or interacting with us in a way beyond just gimmicky, simple interactive things — in more cognitive, more purposeful and impactful imaginations," he said.
"We literally let this AI algorithm learn New York from this pattern of information and create its own consciousness," he said.
Back on the upper level of Artechouse, there's the "AR Bar," which serves augmented reality cocktails and mocktails.
By downloading the Artechouse app and pointing your phone at a bar coaster, you can view the floating AR version of the cocktail menu. (Don't worry — the cocktails themselves are real.)
Here's the current cocktail and mocktail list:
Financial District: Aylesbury Duck Vodka, raspberry, lychee, rhubarb
The Village: Spring 44 Gin, cucumber, basil, balsamic vinegar, peppercorn, mozzarella, garnish
Theater District: El Silencio Mezcal, roasted sweet corn, peach, cholula, Tajín.
Chelsea: Avua Amburana Cachaca, beet, carrot, allspice, ginger, apple, honey, leeks
Meatpacking District: Rittenhouse Rye, Dry Curacao, toasted rice, blackberry, cacao, mint, Old Fashioned Bitters
There's seasonal wine and beer, too.
By pointing your phone at one type of coaster, an AR graphic of an abstract tornado envelops your cocktail on the app.
Another coaster makes it look like your cocktail is surrounded by blue and white AR figurines.
You can book a visit to see "Machine Hallucination" at the New York Artechouse on its website.
