[5] Anadol attended Istanbul Bilgi University, where he received a BA in photography and video in 2009 and an MFA in visual communication in 2011.

Manovich's assertion that collaborations between architects and artists could make the "invisible flow of data visible" triggered Anadol's imagination,[1] and in 2008, he altered built space for the first time.

[7] In 2010 he created Quadrature with Alican Aktürk, a fellow graduate student, at the SantralIstanbul Art and Culture Center's main gallery building.

[8] A live audio-visual performance that examined the relationship between architecture and media, Quadrature used video projection techniques to manipulate footage of quadrilaterals.

[6] In 2013, at Microsoft Research's annual Design Expo, Anadol presented his idea to use the external walls of Walt Disney Concert Hall as a canvas.

For his 2014 thesis project, with assistance from architects and UCLA researchers,[10] he created a site-specific architectural video installation inside the concert hall that accompanied a Los Angeles Philharmonic performance of Edgard Varèse's Amérique.

Titled Visions of America: Amériques, Anadol used algorithmic sound analysis to listen and respond to the music in real-time.

Rather than creating an illusion only with mirrors, Anadol used pixel and 3D projection mapping to transform every surface of the room into an abstract infinite moving space.

[12][13] In 2017, he created the data painting Winds of Boston, a 6' x 13' foot video installation in the lobby of a Boston office building, using software he created to read, analyze and visualize wind speed, direction, and gust patterns along with time and temperature at 20-second intervals recorded over a one-year period at Logan International Airport.

[14] Later in the year, he used AI to generate infinite new outputs based on a massive dataset for Archive Dreaming, an immersive installation at Salt Research, a contemporary gallery and library in Istanbul.

Working with scientists from the neuroscape laboratory at the University of California, San Francisco, he used academic data from the neuroscience archives and EEG scans of an anonymous Alzheimer's disease dataset to create AI-generated visuals related to memory, health, degeneration, and decay.

[4][19] Because Gehry gave him access to the 3D architectural files of Walt Disney Concert Hall,[20] Anadol knew the exact contours of the building.

A 12-minute performance in three parts staged every 30 minutes over ten nights, "Centennial Memories,” the first piece, used 44.5 terabytes of historical data from the Phil's archives.

In 2019, he completed the first work in the series, Machine Hallucinations: NYC, which used 300 million photos of New York City and 113 million additional data points, including subway sounds, radio snippets, and traffic noises, To address privacy concerns, the photos were publicly available through social media, search engines, digital maps, and library sites.

In a review of Machine Hallucinations: NYC in Art in America, Sophie Haigney wrote "Anadol's data paintings manage simultaneously to scrub the subjectivity from this kind of photographic record while completely capturing its essence.

Nature Dreams was created for the Konig Gallery in Berlin and first exhibited in 2021;[25][26] an excerpt from the work later served as the backdrop for the Grammy Awards.

Yet perhaps it is precisely those qualities that make the work seem so alien—its inexpressivity, its entanglement with “tech”—that bring it most in line with the historical tradition to which the museum is devoted."

[35] Anadol's first major solo exhibition in the United States, Living Paintings, opened at the Jeffrey Dietch in Los Angeles in February 2023.

For a show that's heavily tech-driven, the exhibition feels counterintuitively organic, collectively depicting AI reinterpretations of California's natural environments."

The second used 300 million publicly sourced images from national parks and weather-related data gathered from wind sensors in Las Vegas.

An iteration of LNM that generated rainforests and underwater landscapes, Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive, opened at the Serpentine Galleries in London later in January.

[12][39][40] Echoes of the Earth: Living Archive, opened Futura Seoul, an art space in Bukchon Hanok Gahoe-dong, becoming Anadol's first solo exhibition in Asia.

Based on a collaboration with NASA JPL that began in early 2018,[45] the collection sold for a record-setting $5 million at auction at Sotheby's in Hong Kong.

Founded by Anadol and Erkılıç, Dataland will anchor the Grand LA, a Gehry-designed $1 billion development adjacent to Walt Disney Concert Hall.