Google Arts & Culture

From everyday objects to ancient folklore, discover how artists and makers are using Google Arts & Culture as their canvas. Drop by and interact with three different stimulating projects.

Learn everything
Everything you see around you – a plant, a coffee cup, a burger, your pet – contains a million ideas, questions and related topics. What if you could explore them all by taking just one photo?

Take a picture of something, pick a topic you want to learn about and choose a learning style that suits you. With Google AI’s ability to process almost any type of input, including text and images, your photo becomes a visual metaphor for deep dives into new topics. Suddenly, a burger isn’t just a burger, it’s a springboard for an in-depth exploration of quantum mechanics, biochemistry or thermodynamics. Your hunger for knowledge needs to know no end – you can ask follow-up questions or keep exploring related topics and concepts.

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.

Say what you see
Learn the art of the prompt and improve your image-reading skills by looking at Google AI-generated images and describing what you see, in this experiment created by artist Jack Wild.

Sounds easy? Your descriptions prompt an image inspired by the one you’re observing but you only pass if you meet the visual threshold set for each level, really putting your image-reading skills to the test. As you go, you’ll receive tips on how to improve your prompt. Pay attention: you only have three attempts for each image to pass, and each level gets a little harder!

Creative Intelligence is commissioned and produced by the Southbank Centre. Curated with PACT – Planetary Art Culture Technology.