DATALAND, the world’s first Museum of AI Arts, opens June 20, 2026, in downtown Los Angeles

As both prime engineer and AV Owner’s Representative, Arup helped translate DATALAND’s artistic vision into a coordinated and buildable delivery strategy. Arup directed and aligned the project’s technology systems, provided technical project management, and helped streamline decision-making between technology and architecture across the wider design team. This role was especially important on a project defined by immersive installations and complex technical demands.

“DATALAND required extraordinarily close coordination of technology, engineering and architecture from the outset. Our role was to help bring those systems together in a way that supports the studio’s artistic vision while also making the experience technically harmonious, reliable, and buildable. The result is a groundbreaking multisensory environment where the infrastructure is doing a great deal of work behind the scenes, without distracting from the visitor experience,” said Shane Myrbeck, Arup Project Director.

For DATALAND’s inaugural exhibition Machine Dreams: Rainforest, the system integrates ecological data from rainforests around the world, the Large Nature Model AI system, and biosensing input from visitors’ Data.Link wearable devices, forming the computational foundation behind the experiences. Created by Refik Anadol Studio, the Large Nature Model (LNM) is the world’s first open-access multimodal AI model based solely on nature data. To sustain the future of AI Arts, the LNM is hosted entirely on Google Cloud infrastructure in a low-CO₂ compute zone in Oregon, operating on 87 percent carbon-free renewable energy.

Machine Dreams: Rainforest will be on view from Saturday, June 20, 2026, to Sunday, January 31, 2027. Museumgoers can purchase tickets for the inaugural exhibition starting today, Thursday, May 14 via www.dataland.art.