AI art is about to get a world-class museum. Get a sneak peak. [Video]

If AI needs a publicist, Refik Anadol wouldn’t be a bad candidate. The Turkish-born professor and artist sees artificial intelligence as a boon to the world, not just through greater efficiency and scientific advances, but as a new conduit to create beauty. His newest project, along with co-founder Efsun Erkılıç, is Dataland, a 20,000 square foot museum of AI-generated art opening next year in downtown Los Angeles — and it places his faith in the technology front and center.

Dataland’s installations are drawn from its exclusive Large Nature Model, a prototype that only uses data from the natural world and was sourced with records and images from the Smithsonian, London’s Natural History Museum, and the Cornell Lab of Orinthology. The nature-first emphasis is a running theme with Dataland, which conducted its AI research via Google servers running on renewable energy.

As Anadol tells Mashable, he hopes his museum encourages patrons andtech companies …