Making Culture More Accessible at Art Basel Miami Beach 2025

Art often transcends barriers, making us feel things even when we don’t speak the same language. And now, thanks to AI glasses, we can help bridge the gap and make cultural conversations accessible to more people. As Art Basel Miami Beach 2025 approaches, we’re teaming up with Faena Art as their official translation partner for one of the week’s most ambitious experiences.

Art Installations Meet Tech Innovation

A triangular bookshelf nearly 20 feet tall and 50 feet long, filled with 2,500 carefully curated books, slowly rotating within a circular reflecting pool, artist Es Devlin’s Library of Us is an architectural marvel. The illuminated sculpture completes a full rotation every 10 minutes, while visitors sit at a dual-ring reading table spanning more than 90 feet across — some stationary, others moving along with the sculpture. A celebration of Faena Art’s 10th anniversary, the installation will come alive in new ways thanks to Ray-Ban Meta’s real-time translation technology, which helps visitors better connect with the art and each other.

As guests encounter new passages to read and people to meet with each rotation, Ray-Ban Meta glasses will provide seamless translation between English and Spanish. Whether you’re reading excerpts from the books hand-selected by Devlin or striking up a conversation with someone across the table, you’ll find that language barriers simply disappear.

Inside the Faena Cathedral, attendees can use Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses to enhance their experience of Devlin’s Reading Room — a 46-foot-long interactive bench featuring contributed text from Faena hotel staff. Visitors can sit, listen, and read along as phrases appear on LED screens while getting information about what they’re looking at through the in-lens display on their glasses.

Far from just another tech demo, the meaningful integration of Ray-Ban Meta glasses and Meta Ray-Ban Display with Devlin’s installations showcases how AI-powered wearables can enhance our experience of the world, foster human connection, and make culture more accessible.

Ray-Ban Meta glasses can be borrowed and set up at the information kiosk on Faena Beach, while Meta Ray-Ban Display glasses will be available inside Faena Cathedral. That means anyone in attendance can get hands-on with the tech without needing to purchase a pair first.

While they’ll focus on translating from English to Spanish and Spanish to English for these installations, our AI glasses support multiple languages including English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. The technology lets you stay fully present with the world and people around you as the translations happen in near-real time, offering a new way to connect with people and art and providing a deeper experience of the installation that would not have been possible otherwise.

This is the future of wearable AI: technology that enhances human connection rather than distracting from it.

Beyond the Beach: A Week of Cultural Connection

Library of Us runs December 2 – 7, 2025, with public, ticketed, and invitation-only events. Artist talks and masterclasses will be held throughout the week, made more accessible to broader audiences through real-time translation. Evening programming will include DJ sets and the Faena Art Music Series, letting international visitors connect with local culture. And weekend morning wellness activations will align with the project’s focus on collective presence.

Throughout it all, our AI glasses will empower people to engage more deeply with the experience — whether they’re discussing Devlin’s philosophy with fellow art enthusiasts or simply asking for directions to their next gallery stop.

Devlin has spent her career creating “momentary communities in which new perspectives can be rehearsed.” By integrating translation into her work, we’re helping to extend that vision and make those temporary societies open to anyone, regardless of their native language.

Whether you’re an Art Basel regular or visiting Miami for the first time, Library of Us offers something unprecedented: the chance to experience how AI can make art more inclusive and unlock new possibilities for cultural exchange. Because the best technology isn’t about gadgets or algorithms — it’s about the human experiences they make possible.