Yinka Ilori: Dreaming with Flamingos

The contemporary artist and designer has collaborated with Google Arts & Culture Lab to create Dreaming with Flamingos, his first digital interactive artwork. The artist’s Nigerian heritage, rich in folklore and vibrant traditions, fuels his artistic vision. Ilori brings this to life in a whole new way with Google’s advanced AI tools – merging ancient wisdom with modern technology.

Play as a young flamingo tasked with restoring a park’s lost song and help the elder flamingos remember their lost wisdom – the life force that once fuelled this musical playground – by solving riddles within the game. Each solved riddle reveals a dynamic generative soundtrack, inspired by West African instruments and generated by Google AI Music Generator, Lyria. The reward at the end of each level is two unique digital artworks inspired by two Nigerian parables and co-created with Google technology.